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ParanoidObsessive posted...

And of course, humans get +1 across the board, which is 6 total. Though the argument there is that humans are compensating for not having specific awesomeness or extra abilities by being slightly good at everything (though a lot of settings wind up swinging that back the other way by having "demihuman" races suffer social bias outside of their own communities).

Or you can get a +1 and a +1 with a feat. Which you can use that feat to give you a +1, so you get +2 something +1 something, and voila, you get to be a bit broken at level 1.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

But like I said, the question mostly occurred to me because the book suggests that choosing a subclass is optional, but why would you NOT take a subclass? Not only are you usually giving up at least one +1 ability mod, but usually at least a couple of other benefits.

Huh, yeah that's a pretty weird and silly to not do.
I guess if the GM is making wood elves, and high elves off the table, I would prefer to be a "stereotypical elf", but that's just because dark elves are so incredibly bad, like holy shit never play them bad.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I should probably prefer point buy (since almost every other RPG I've ever liked uses it or a variation of it)

I generally hate it as well, but I f***ing love Traveller's lifepath system. You just roll up with whatever character you want, watch them go through some sort of adventure, and then once they get close to dying, make them a PC! Just rolling dice and building a character out of what happens is fun sometimes.
I have run more than a few sessions of just making characters in Traveller.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I'd probably allow a player who winds up with an overall total of 66-68 points or less (ie, slightly less than standard array) to either re-roll or just default to standard array/point buy, because I don't think a player should be punished just because random chance gave them s*** numbers across the board. Especially if they're in a group where another player rolled really well and now have this over-the-top PC who's good at pretty much everything.

Yeah, that happened with one of my current characters. I rolled, got some great stats and ran with it. My gf rolled hers, she got worse than she was before, and I can still feel the salt from it.
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