Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Character creation - What about rolling for stats?

I'm glad they're not putting different ability score generation methods in. Solasta has that and I hate it. When you use point buy, you have a nagging feeling that you could have rolled for better stats and more powerful characters. When you "roll" and have the stats as high as you like, it feels like cheating. They tossed in standard array as well to make it even more confusing.

And let's face it, the rules for rolling ability scores are that you roll 4d6 drop lowest, once. How many players would accept the first roll in a video game if they didn't like it? How should the game police that you roll only once? By disallowing a restart and forcing you to play with that character for 8 hours? So it's essentially not about rolling in a CRPG, it's about getting a lot of 18's. So just give a free edit instead. Powergamers will be able to mod their characters to have all 18's anyway.

Much like a tabletop DM decides how ability scores are generated in their campaign, Larian has to choose for BG3 and balance their game accordingly. Imo, point buy is a good balanced way to generate stats in a multiplayer game that still allows freedom and choice.