Comments on: What are the Best 4e Ability Score Arrays? http://abutterflydreaming.com/2009/07/25/what-are-the-best-4e-ability-score-arrays/ Zen and the Art of Roleplaying Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:43:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Scott http://abutterflydreaming.com/2009/07/25/what-are-the-best-4e-ability-score-arrays/comment-page-1/#comment-2509 Scott Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:31:44 +0000 http://abutterflydreaming.com/?p=1274#comment-2509 @Brett: Rolling is still an option in 4e (and 3e). They're designed with certain assumptions in mind, though -- mainly the one about having at least a +3 modifier, after racials, in the primary stat. Which doesn't mean that you can't play without meeting those assumptions. Greywulf had a couple of posts about that, a few months back, IIRC. Personally, I moved away from rolling when it started to interfere with character concepts. Even something as basic as "I want to play a cleric" could be thwarted by, say, a roll of 5 Wisdom. The later roll methods, especially "4d6, best 3, arrange as desired", did a lot to mitigate that, but I still prefer to make the character I envision. @Brett: Rolling is still an option in 4e (and 3e). They’re designed with certain assumptions in mind, though — mainly the one about having at least a +3 modifier, after racials, in the primary stat. Which doesn’t mean that you can’t play without meeting those assumptions. Greywulf had a couple of posts about that, a few months back, IIRC.

Personally, I moved away from rolling when it started to interfere with character concepts. Even something as basic as “I want to play a cleric” could be thwarted by, say, a roll of 5 Wisdom. The later roll methods, especially “4d6, best 3, arrange as desired”, did a lot to mitigate that, but I still prefer to make the character I envision.

]]> By: Brett http://abutterflydreaming.com/2009/07/25/what-are-the-best-4e-ability-score-arrays/comment-page-1/#comment-2506 Brett Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:48:16 +0000 http://abutterflydreaming.com/?p=1274#comment-2506 Great information. I admit disliking this aspect of the modern game, having a wide spread of stats really did help with the roleplay back in the day, but since it is part of the game now it is nice to have a good handle on some of the math involved. Great information. I admit disliking this aspect of the modern game, having a wide spread of stats really did help with the roleplay back in the day, but since it is part of the game now it is nice to have a good handle on some of the math involved.

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