Originally Posted by Redwyrm
Originally Posted by Xzoviac
Rolling for Stats makes sense its part of dnd and its part of bg1 and 2, bg 3 should have it too bg1 and 2 are multiplayer too and didnt suffer from the game feeling unfair. Why should people have to cheat to enjoy a big part of dnd
The part that was very heavily abused in BG1 and 2. Why did it exist? Unfortunately devs just didn't realized players would abuse it heavily. And unlike in actual D&D - there is no DM to say: "Yeah, sorry, you chose yourself to roll, so take those shitty first roll stats". There are no reroll in actual D&D. In CRPG - nothing would stop players abuse hell out of such mechanics.
Please do give the old devs some credit. Of course they knew that people would reroll stats when they specifically programmed BG1 and BG2 in a way that enabled stat rerolling. They knew and they didn't really care. They also added no less than 8 tomes of +1 stat in BG1. You could literally make a 20 dex thief or a 19 strength, 20 con warrior. Or a 19, 18, 20 thief-fighter multiclass dwarf. And it wasn't abuse of the game, it was literally playing the game as intended.

The old BG games were a lot more focused on "wouldn't this be pretty cool?" than they were on "wouldn't this be supremely balanced?". Remember how summon undead worked in BG1? How that combined with a party full of ranged attackers? Remember how the old Flail of the Ages worked? How good that was in the hands of an imp hasted fighter with a giant strength belt that was also dual wielding a sword of +1 main hand attack? Good times, right?

Personally I wouldn't complain too much if there's no stat reroll in BG3, but I also wouldn't mind if there was. After all, it really wasn't that easy to roll 90+, so most people settled for much less. And ultimately it is a single player game. If someone wants to hit the game with a sextuple 18 freakazoid then why not? Same if someone wants to play a naked character with terrible stats. That is the beauty of single player. Their game, their choice.