"Everyone who wants rolling for stats to be in the game, do you want it because:
a) you want to roll until you get high enough ability scores b) you want to keep the first roll and play like tabletop"
I prefer rolling fir multiple reasons:
1. More varied. Point buy characters largely tend to look the same stats wise.
2. It's a game. Randomness is part of the fun for me.
3. It's tradition. Yeah, yeah, dome traditions ate bad abd need to be stopped... not this one, imo, lol.
4. I actually dont mind having low stats and point buy systems largely have higher minimums. Instead of a 3 minimum you get a 8 minimum. Meh. Give me that clumsy priest or that sickly mage. One if the most popular dnd inspired characters was literally a ridiculously unhealthy mage.. and he conquered the universe as a major villain.
5. It's the standard in phb. Point buy is the variant.
6. I prefer keeping the first roll though I do admit in crogs I tend to roll fir at least decent. I have played a bg character with as low as 78 though, and my highest was 93. Both playthroughs went fine.
7. It's fun!!! It's classic!!! It's wild!!!
8. Still dint see why the baseline phb rule if rolling could not, at least be an option. I thought bg3 was about options, and playing how you wanted to. This literally limits that
1) Agree, the point buy makes it very tempting to always use the standard
2) While it is a poor replacement, would it be possible to basically roll after all? Either with console commands putting them in, or just using the rolls and maybe using less points, if that is allowed? But I see what you mean.
3) Technically the way you roll the dice has changed over the year - and I *think* I have read that point buy is actually older than many people think.
4) I think these kind of characters are better in pen&paper than in Video Games. A DM can incorporate it in the adventure. Though, when Larian is so proud of reactions few people will see, then maybe such low stats should be in.
5) Pretty sure the standard is the Standard Array (15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8).
6) Eh, depends in what points you put them. Playing a low Dex char used to massively weaken you. Especially for BG1. And I have been salty about htat for 20 years. =P
7) pretty sure that is just a combination of point 2) and 3) =P
8) Again, the baseline is the standard array.
But I think a mod to put rolling would be appreciate by most people. We should probably leave the "save" button for rolling that BG had out..
