3D6. In order. One stat re-roll. Don't like it, leave. We're here to roleplay, not smurf.
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3D6. In order. One stat re-roll. Don't like it, leave. We're here to roleplay, not smurf.
>how dare someone else play a traditional tabletop role playing game different than me!
I got 18 in everything, you missed it.
Not smurfing if you rolled them fairly. You have been gifted by the gods.
Stormwind fallacy.
Sounds like you're here to rollplay.
underrated post
Rolled 1, 5, 6, 1, 5, 2, 6, 4, 3, 1, 6, 1, 6, 4, 2, 2, 1, 6 = 62 (18d6)
C'moooon Paladin!
Str 12
Dex 8
Con 13
Int 8
Wis 12
Cha 9
Uh his name is... Morf. He's a Male Dwarf. It doesn't matter, I'll reroll next session when this guy dies.
>morf never dies and makes it to campaign end despite it all because he stays at the back next to the wizard with a crossbow as a backup fighter
>all the high stat characters die and get replaced over time because the players got wienery
>by the end of it morf and the wizard realise they dont even know any of these new guys anymore
*leaves, reports you to ICE*
GM rolls once. Everyone takes those numbers and re-orders the array in the sequence they prefer.
That I can get behind.
Stormwind fallacy, roleplaying can be done regardless of optimization level.
>munchkins making up imaginary fallacies to protect their sacred optimization text which is the "Optimized Character Builds" sections on the DanDWiki
They're right. You're not.
You're free to be as stupid as you wish. I won't stop you.
The optimizers at every table I've ever been at are consistently the best roleplayers.
Until they think something is "unfair".
No.
Optimisers are the least likely to do this because they actually put thought into how their character was going to play and scale (unless they got it off the internet). When they choose Warcaster over Resilient they’ve actually put some thought into it, so they don’t complain about being overly squishy.
Compare that to some Normie who doesn’t really understand his option's dumping Con because his wizard isn’t going to get hit anyway, right? As soon as he starts getting smashed every session he’s going to complain about how unfair he is everybody else can get hit a bunch but he almost dies every time, while the optimiser understands that the low Con was his choice; and he knows what benefits he got out of it.
>t. the guy who is the table "optimizer"
Rolling for stats actually encourages people to optimize since now you're introducing inherently unequal elements to the party anyways. People with shit stats are encouraged to play a strong, optimized character who doesn't actually care what his stats are because its main gimmick is so strong or scales purely off class levels rather than attributes (In 3.5 if your stats suck you can just play a Druid and buff your animal companion and summon monsters, in 5e you can AGAIN just be a fricking druid and summon monsters and turn into a bear, or play fricking Twilight Cleric and use your channel divinity that scales off cleric level alone). And if people roll god stats now a bunch of combinations that were previously white room bullshit are now actually viable, like a wizard with 18 INT and CHA.
Rolling for stats does absolutely nothing to prevent people from optimiziing, and in fact the most egregious munchkins LOVE rolling for stats because they can gamble for better power than other players at the table, and if they roll poorly can just die and try again or whine for a do-over.
Are you suggesting that random stat distribution is more prone to being optimized than....playing with a point-buy system where players manually distribute their points to make specific builds?
No, no, I'm just saying that, uh, munchkins...find a way.
I've had 3 separate campaigns go to shit because the opposite of what you're saying precisely happened. I had players roll 3D6, but they were allowed to allocate their rolls however they wanted, no re-rolls. Each time the player rolled poorly, they thought they would just make up for it by picking what they thought were "OP classes". Without fail, those characters got fricking destroyed, because those "OP classes" are specifically only OP because of their reliance on single stats. Druid's are only good if they have an 18 Wisdom, because they can only prepare and cast spells if their wisdom score is equal to the spell level + 10. If you pick a druid when you only rolled 13 Wisdom, you're in for a rough time. They thought I was being unfair/cheating, and abandoned the game.
>Druid's are only good if they have an 18 Wisdom
No they're not. Wild Shape alone is able to keep them in the game and then they have an animal companion on top of that.
If you're playing 3.5 or Pathfinder you can totally make a viable pouncebeast druid with 13 wisdom who just relies on a dozen natural attacks and an animal companion to deal 600 damage on the charge and ignore most of your actual spellcasting. You can get a headband and put a level 4 increase into wisdom and that'll cover all your spellcasting requirements until 17+ when you can start wishmaxxing. That sounds more like your player was a moron than anything else.
>Rolling for stats does absolutely nothing to prevent people from optimiziing, and in fact the most egregious munchkins LOVE rolling for stats because they can gamble for better power than other players at the table, and if they roll poorly can just die and try again or whine for a do-over.
This. The power gamer at my table LOVES rolling for stats, and he creams his pants anytime he gets an 18.
Finally, somebody pointing out correctly that the worst munchkins and power gamers love the random generation.
He's saying that the random stat distribution introduces the element of random inequality between characters power levels and encourages players with less impressive characters than their friends to go all out on optimisation.
Then they sucked at optimisation and by your description, they sucked hard.
And you know that he's rolling at least one 18 eventually, because they have no issue killing of weaker characters to roll for new ones.
When has an optimizer ever taken an action that would be considered a tactical misstep for the sake of acting in-character?
Plenty of times.
Never
Select a random 18 digit segment from the decimals of Pi, add them in three digit segments. Anything that totals over 18 rolls over starting at 3, so 19 becomes a 3, a 20 is 4, etc.
Threaten me with this half-assed attempt at autistic DM-ing again, and I will come up with far more interesting and autistic ways of rolling stats.
>One stat re-roll
Look at this precious snowflake, do you also need your linus blanket before playing?
Rolled 5, 6, 6, 1, 5, 4, 3, 1, 4, 2, 3, 3, 1, 1, 5, 5, 6, 5 = 66 (18d6)
I don't play dung and dogshit but these threads are fun
17, 10, 8, 8, 7, 16
dunno what stat is what but I'm good at two things bad at everything else
Your huge muscles and pretty face let you get away with being a complete tardo. Maybe you should have done less "cut phases" and "special supplements" because your actual health is abysmal. Congratulations: you've rolled a bodybuilder.
Paladin. Pick a race that grants a con bonus and welcome to Smite City.
He doesn't qualify with those stats.
I find that this is a good way to weed-out the wannabes that just come with builds they found online stapled to their character sheets. It's a real mood killer when some c**t comes with some specced out Aasimar she-banshee Netherkin Lich-fiend Black Guard Chosen Champion of the Moon God of Nethree, and your first planned encounter for them is a band of goblins. At that point I like to throw hands of god at them.
Rolled 2, 4, 4, 6, 2, 6, 3, 6, 6, 3, 2, 4, 3, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3 = 70 (18d6)
FINE WHATEVER
i want to play halfling barbarian monk like a tiny kenshiro
dice+18d6
Come on baby, this one's for all the money.
Rolled 2, 4, 5, 5, 1, 4, 1, 5, 6, 3, 4, 1, 1, 6, 6, 2, 1, 5 = 62 (18d6)
>in the email field
LMAO. Never rolled dice on here before, I am massively moronic.
Strength: 11
Dexterity: 10
Constitution: 12
Intelligence: 8
Wisdom: 13
Charisma: 9
And what a powerful druid I shall be.
Cleric it is.
it happens buddy
Str 10
Dex 14 +2
Con 15
Int 9
Wis 10
Cha 11
>perfect stats
Brunt The Runt The Bare Handed Barbarian (he will also throw knives at people)
Do you get to pick your race/class before or after you roll?
Race before, Class after.
7 str
13dex
14 con
13 int
12 wis
11 cha
John the white male human Gish, I guess. probably with some dex weapon like a bow.
how does a range weapon-based Gish work, anyway? assuming it's a 5e wizard with 2-3 fighter levels
Hey buddy I think you got the wrong link, the strawman club's two boards down.
>We're here to roleplay
Then what do you need stats for? Wouldn't it make more sense to randomly roll up a background?
Rolled 3, 5, 2, 1, 6, 5, 3, 4, 4, 6, 4, 3, 5, 3, 5, 6, 6, 5 = 76 (18d6)
Rollin
STR 10
DEX 12
CON 11
INT 13
WIS 13
CHA 17
Jigs the Half-Elf violin playing Bard. I wanted to be a wizard but I was just a little too stupid and poor to go to wizard school so I had to fall back on barding to make a living while studying magic. I'm very serious about my craft and very serious in my demeanour and I'm very tired of the group's silly antics.
Second sentence is this season’s hottest new anime
Rolled 6, 4, 1, 2, 2, 6, 2, 3, 5, 2, 2, 5, 5, 5, 2, 3, 3, 6 = 64 (18d6)
Main character coming through
Str: 11
Dex: 10
Con: 10
Int: 9
Wis: 12
Cha: 12
Very strange.
If you want to "roleplay", why go with something made for dungeon crawls and combat? You already have the D6s out, so why not use something like Risus, or PbtA? Hell, you seem so opposed to anything relating to gameplay (judging by your homosexual lingo and image), why not just do a one-page system like Lasers and Feelings or Tactical Waifu?
Weird how you have to stay hinged on D&D when you hate everything it's made around.
I'm going to roll up a pig farmer
dice+18d6
>not 4d6dtl, reroll ones
ngmi
Would you take the chance IRL? I think I would. My class is Commoner, either way.
But can one really leave a place no one had ever been?
... Anon we're playing Shadowrun. Now go select your priorities.
>one stat re-roll
No rerolls. And we roll for class, race, sex, age, height, weight, background, and alignment too. These are my demands or I'm leaving.
you also roll for sense of humour, lung capacity, immunity system, walk speed, appearance and nose length or get out
Also for dick size
anal circumference while we're at it
Dragonbane has the best D&D-adjacent ability rolling system.
>roll 4d6, keep three
>assign the score to one of your abilities
>repeat five more times
>you can swap two scores (only once) when you're done
Rolled 6, 5, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 3, 1, 6, 5, 4, 2, 5, 1, 4, 1 = 57 (18d6)
Rolled 3, 3, 3, 6, 1, 4, 1, 4, 2, 3, 5, 5, 3, 1, 1, 6, 5, 2 = 58 (18d6)
what did we get
3d6 down the line motherfricker.
No.
1d20.
Down the line.
No rerolls.
>Captcha: DAYNK
Rolled 5, 10, 2, 17, 20, 17 = 71 (6d20)
I want to test the d20 thing
Str: 5
Dex: 10
Con: 2
Int: 17
Wis: 20
Cha: 17
God, I'll be amazing after I get some levels.
>God, I'll be amazing after I get some levels.
Said every 1hp wizard
Rolled 14, 14, 13, 1, 13, 1 = 56 (6d20)
Now you know the wisdom of the Outback anon.
Rolled 6, 1, 2, 4, 2, 1, 5, 3, 3, 2, 5, 4, 2, 1, 2, 4, 6, 4 = 57 (18d6)
Rolling
Rolled 5, 4, 3 = 12 (3d6)
Reroll for Dex
Str:9
Dex:12
Con:11
Int:11
Con:5
Cha:14
I guess I'll either be a fighter or a Thief. Playing a magic user with average Int just isn't worth it. Also when you have a high charisma you should always play a girl. Realistically the advantage of playing a girl with high charisma is way better than playing as a dude.
DUNGEON MASTER
I'M GOING INTO BATTLE
I NEED TO USE STANDARD ARRAY
Rolled 4, 4, 4, 6, 3, 1, 5, 2, 5, 3, 1, 4, 6, 4, 5, 3, 2, 1 = 63 (18d6)
Good thing I'm the best at rolling dice.
Str 12
Dex 10
Con 12
Int 8
Wis 15
Cha 6
Frickin told you idiots, I'm basically the world's greatest cleric.
>One reroll
Sissy
>roll my stats
>they’re a little too high and don’t match the character I’m going to roleplay
>lower them
Just as bad as raising them. Fate ordained you for greater things, you cannot ignore her calls
Shadowdark does this (3d6 down the line, may only reroll the entire set if not a single stat is at least 14) and its great.
It's the best in the NuSR genre I think a lot of people would like it if they gave it a shot. People will post
>woman
and then immediately pine for everything this system actually does.
Hey, buddy, I'm the game master, not you.
So, are you going with Guided or Constructed for your character creation method?
Are there any classes/races that have minimum stat requirements? I'm asking in case I roll all 1s because I brought the roll-under weighted dice instead of the roll-over ones.
18d6
assign them how you would like.
wtf is smurfing in the context of an RPG. I only know it from vidya shit.
>wtf is smurfing in the context of an RPG.
the tabletop equivalent would be being a munchkin
Can't we skip the rolls and go flat tens? It's not going to make a difference, the die has 20 sides and stat bonuses only go up to +3.
Rolled 7, 8, 12, 16, 14, 5 = 62 (6d20)
Yep, let's see what we're playin today.
Str:7
Dex:8
Con:12
Int:16
Wis:14
Cha:5.
The dice say their piece, and I listen.
Rolled 2, 2, 1, 4, 4, 5, 6, 3, 1, 2, 1, 6, 4, 5, 4, 3, 3, 3 = 59 (18d6)
Watch this!
If you don't make an effective character, you're bad at roleplaying.
>3D6. In order. One stat re-roll
>We're here to roleplay
3/10 bait
>4d6, drop the low number, in order, roll a 7th roll
>You can replace any roll with the 7th roll, and you can only switch one roll with another AFTER replacing one or not replacing one with the 7th roll
This is how I roll for DnD
Rolled 5, 3, 2, 6, 4, 5, 2, 2, 3, 5, 1, 2, 2, 6, 2, 2, 2, 5 = 59 (18d6)
OATHBREAKER.
I WANNA.
WANNA BREAK AN OATH b***h
Rolled 5, 1, 5 = 11 (3d6)
STR: 10
DEX: 15
CON: 7
WIS: 8
INT: 8
WIS:10
CHA: 9
JESUS REROLL THAT CON OR HE AINT LIVING LONG ENOUGH TO BREAK ANYTHING
Rolled 1, 4, 3, 4, 5, 3, 3, 4, 1, 3, 6, 6, 2, 4, 4, 6, 1, 3 = 63 (18d6)
rolling a rouge let's see how lucky he is
Rolled 2, 4, 3 = 9 (3d6)
STR 8
DEX 12
CON 8
WIS 15
INT 10
CHA 12
not bad at all. guess I'll risk it for some better con.
Rolled 1, 6, 4, 3, 6, 2, 4, 3, 1, 3, 5, 3, 3, 2, 3, 6, 5, 1 = 61 (18d6)
let's see
Rolled 5, 2, 4 = 11 (3d6)
str 10
dex 11
con 08
int 11
wis 08
cha 12
gonna need that reroll
How does this all work?
Rolled 2, 3, 6 = 11 (3d6)
>Punches you with my frightening Str score
Rolled 1, 5, 4, 2, 2, 5, 2, 6, 6, 6, 1, 1, 6, 1, 3, 1, 3, 6 = 61 (18d6)
I wanna elf!
Rolled 2, 5, 4, 1, 6, 2, 2, 5, 4, 3, 1, 1, 6, 4, 5, 3, 4, 4 = 62 (18d6)
This is bullshit.
Rolled 5, 5, 3, 6, 1, 6, 2, 3, 4, 5, 2, 4, 1, 4, 6, 3, 1, 6 = 67 (18d6)
Rollan rollan rollan
Rolled 3, 1, 6 = 10 (3d6)
Looks like I'm going Rogue. Guess I'll reroll the CON just to avoid having less than average in that.
STR 13
DEX 13
CON 9
INT 11
WIS 11
CHA 10
I roll 3d6 12 times and get rid of the 6 lower numbers as Gygax himself intended you fricking heretic
Rolled 5, 6, 5, 4, 1, 1, 3, 2, 3, 4, 2, 5, 5, 3, 4, 2, 3, 4 = 62 (18d6)
Let’s get it baby
STR 16
DEX 6
CON 8
INT 11
WIS 12
CHA 9
Not 100% what I would do with this, with that low Con I don’t know about doing any kind of frontline class, but it could still be workable
I'm not sure if you would be recommended to reroll the CON or the DEX.
Rolled 1, 5, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4, 3, 4, 1, 6, 1, 4, 5, 6, 2, 6, 4 = 68 (18d6)
Rollan
Rolled 6, 6, 3, 3, 5, 4, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 6, 4, 4, 4, 5, 6, 1 = 81 (18d6)
LET'S GO!!
I hope I qualify for a Ranger.
(I love old school 3d6 down the line, feels like a mystery bag toy every time.)
Elven fighter/magic-user it is.