D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction?

[cbwjm]

If I can place my rolls wherever then I'll just make someone that can't talk his way out of a paper bag. If it's in order then that's potentially a deadly scenario, since if it ends up in constitution then I'm likely to have a short career, a 3 dexterity won't help much on the survival side of things either. Strength I can manage but my wizard might become a some other spellcaster so he doesn't have to lug around a spellbook. Intelligence just means a big dumb brute of a fighter, wisdom might be a thief or bard who always gets into trouble.

So I will play a PC with a 3 stat, I may not be enthusiastic about that 3 but that won't stop me from having fun in the game.

 

[haakon1]

I mostly DM. I let people reroll the whole set of stats if they don’t like it.

Not everyone is cut out to be an adventurer. Some sets of stats should probably stay home.

 

[AnotherGuy]

Amazing! Unless you put it in Strength, then I will cry.

I'd likely (and have done) play a child with divine powers or innate arcane powers

 

[Lanefan]

I mostly DM. I let people reroll the whole set of stats if they don’t like it.

Not everyone is cut out to be an adventurer. Some sets of stats should probably stay home.

Having a hard cutline can help, as there's some players out there who won't like it unless their average is 17 or higher.

My cutline is if either of

A - none of your rolls is higher than 13, or
B - the average of all six rolls is lower than 10.0

is true, then you may reroll.

And yes, this means the "balanced" point-buy array of 13-13-13-12-12-12 would qualify for reroll in my game.