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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imban" data-source="post: 4068943" data-attributes="member: 29206">I disagree; randomness in character creation can have its place, because it makes it unlikely that any two given characters will be mechanically identical. This is important to some players, and a much bigger deal in some systems than others - in something like Rules Cyclopedia D&D, point-buy ability scores and fixed HP would result in every character being drawn from a pool of about 12 legal character mechanic sets. On the other hand, in 3e D&D, it's unlikely that a random sampling of characters will have multiple using the exact same mechanics, especially after some levels are gained, so randomness in character creation isn't as essential for differentiation.EDIT: And now that I think about it, people have been playing and enjoying BRP for a long, long time, and that does use random advancement for essentially everything.</blockquote>