You can roll and re-roll in Solasta and I don't like it. It's a weird love and hate thing because I feel like it opens up more characters concepts than the stingy 27 point buy with a cap of 15, but the re-rolling is like cheating.
If I get a weak roll I will of course re-reroll because playing gimped characters is no fun. Then I get an uber roll and feel like I'm cheating. I have to assign ability scores I feel shouldn't be that high for that particular character I have in mind. Then I re-roll again until I get good main stats (so that the PC is good at what they do) but also some lower rolls so that the PC won't be too godlike and perfect at everything. And the end result for all characters is something that could be achievable with a more generous point buy system than the default 27.
So I would go for a more generous, or less restrictive, point buy system for a video game or even a tabletop campaign (it doesn't feel right that an unlucky roll can force you to play a gimped character who sucks compared to everyone else). But I would also like those extra feat picks to make characters with very similar ability scores different from eachother.
Last edited by 1varangian; 26/07/21 11:21 AM.
