How are you getting 18 Streght at level one? That shouldn't be possible with points buy and the races we have access to? With points buy the highest you should be able to set a stat is 15, and racial traits have a max of 2, so 17 should be max.
Ok, I might have given incorrect numbers. My mistake.
Please no. For pnp dnd it can work but also has the chance to have MASSIVE power differences between players. We had a campaign where 1 player had 3 18's and where some players dident have stats higher then (IIRC) 14. The powergap was massive.
I did say to make it optional, so players who want to can make that decision for themselves and "roll" with it.
the caps on point buy feel silly
I agree. At first I thought the game was buggy. After a while I figured it was probably about balance and avoiding some players to become too powerful, too fast. It still kinda weirds me out, though, not gonna lie.
