Originally Posted by SaurianDruid
Originally Posted by Firesnakearies
I hate rolling for stats. In a pen-and-paper campaign, it's just a bad way to do things. One person's character is gonna be much better than someone else's just because of stupid luck at character creation. In a video game, everyone's just gonna re-roll until they get a bunch of good rolls, so all that means is that every PC is always overpowered with ridiculous stats. Rolled stats are basically just cheating, to me. Point buy is fair, flexible, and puts every character on the same level.


I tend to agree with this. The few times I've rolled I've only ever done really badly or really middling. One game was especially rough because I had a dedicated archer ranger with a focus on stealth and my friend was a DEX fighter dual wielder, and someone else made a rogue, rolled insanely well, and was a better archer than my ranger and better dual wielder than the fighter while having higher AC, more proficiencies + expertise, significantly better stealth, and was even almost as good a face as our bard.

It was... Not great.

It makes less sense to me for a single player game because 100% people are mostly gonna re-roll until they have the stats they want. Seems you could get the same result with point buy and just remove the 15 cap and give something like 40-50 points to spend.

But lots of people want it so I don't sit here and try to deny it to them. It just makes no sense to me.


I feel you. For me stat rolls add to the roleplay element. All people are not created with 27 points to spend in attributes. In the D&D PHB players can do either/or. If you don't fancy your luck or the DM says just one roll go 27 all the way. Noting is taken away from anyone having both options in single player. Swen already said this was going to be added so at this point it's pretty moot.

Could even add to an Ironman mode that is so majorly hardcore if you try and reset it deletes the game from your hardrive and notifies steam to delete BG3 from your account. At the end of the day everone who is going to cheat is going to and more options is never "worse".