5d6, throw out the lowest two...

Dumarest · January 09, 2018, 09:46:19 PM

Quote from: Tetsubo;1018474Is there a way to delete a thread? Because I do not want my thread turned into a 'wrongbadfun' pile-on. Thanks.

Or you could just stop reading the responses if you can't handle people disagreeing with your preferences.

Shawn Driscoll · January 09, 2018, 10:48:13 PM

Quote from: danskmacabre;1018613if it were me I'd just say.. Look, let's cut to the chase. Just choose your stats and let me take a look to see if it's acceptable.

I remember a class where the professor let his students choose their own grade at the end of the semester. They all chose A, if not A+ for themself. And he allowed it.

Tetsubo · January 10, 2018, 08:27:09 AM

Quote from: Opaopajr;1018603Did y'all get a free car?! :eek:

Yes actually. My father gave me his old car when he upgraded. A 2014 Toyota Corolla with 15K miles on it.

S'mon · January 10, 2018, 09:06:58 AM

Quote from: Tetsubo;1018679Yes actually. My father gave me his old car when he upgraded. A 2014 Toyota Corolla with 15K miles on it.

Nice!

joriandrake · January 10, 2018, 09:26:16 AM

It seems like I'm an anomaly here. I didn't ever plan to drive, my mother wants to have me inherit her car and one of my sisters tries to persuade me to get a license, but I have 8 dioptre glasses/eyes currently (still getting worse, might become blind), dead bits/strains of tissue fly before my sight as black snow, and I just don't think it would be safe for myself and others with me driving on the roads.

Shawn Driscoll · January 10, 2018, 10:20:22 AM

That is weird. People trying to make blind people drive cars.

joriandrake · January 10, 2018, 05:34:21 PM

Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;1018696That is weird. People trying to make blind people drive cars.

I'm not blind... yet. I have glasses which would normally be very thick, but costed extra for making the layers as thin as possible so from looking at me one can't notice how bad my eye sight is. My own family however should know it better. As mentioned above the whole day long for me it's like a slight black snowing, both inside and outside the house due to dead bits/strands of eye tissue. I heard usually these floating pieces occur for people over 65 years old, I'm only 34 however, and my sight gets worse, that's why I don't rule out the chance of going fully blind with time.

Opaopajr · January 10, 2018, 05:41:35 PM

Quote from: Tetsubo;1018679Yes actually. My father gave me his old car when he upgraded. A 2014 Toyota Corolla with 15K miles on it.

Blesséd be to the Oprah!

S'mon · January 11, 2018, 02:51:43 AM

Quote from: joriandrake;1018688It seems like I'm an anomaly here.

I can't drive either. We're European, it's normal!

joriandrake · January 11, 2018, 04:47:09 AM

Quote from: S'mon;1018809I can't drive either. We're European, it's normal!

Ha! At least we don't have to worry or argue on which side of the road we should drive =)

RPGPundit · January 13, 2018, 02:30:31 AM

Quote from: Tetsubo;1018458And the less likely a player is to get to play what they actually want to play. We've been over this. You like games to reflect the same random aspects of the real world. Born with crap genes? Too bad! Whereas I think that a player gets to do one things, play their character. And that character should be *exactly* what they want to play. I was trying to have a lark with this thread. A bit of fun. Thanks for the bucket of ice water.

Except that's not the product of decades of my experience as a GM. In my experience, players routinely live up to the challenge of taking randomness and making out of it a character that they will enjoy, often more than if they had just gotten what they thought they wanted right from the start. Many of the most memorable characters in my campaigns have been characters that started out looking like they didn't have great prospects, or characters that were very different from what a player would usually have chosen in the first place.

Dumarest · January 13, 2018, 11:05:00 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;1019157Except that's not the product of decades of my experience as a GM. In my experience, players routinely live up to the challenge of taking randomness and making out of it a character that they will enjoy, often more than if they had just gotten what they thought they wanted right from the start. Many of the most memorable characters in my campaigns have been characters that started out looking like they didn't have great prospects, or characters that were very different from what a player would usually have chosen in the first place.

Yep. And it's more fun for everyone that way. But as I noted elsewhere, many people lack imagination and just want the same sandwich every time they eat and the same character every time they roleplay.

Tetsubo · January 13, 2018, 01:33:21 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;1019157Except that's not the product of decades of my experience as a GM. In my experience, players routinely live up to the challenge of taking randomness and making out of it a character that they will enjoy, often more than if they had just gotten what they thought they wanted right from the start. Many of the most memorable characters in my campaigns have been characters that started out looking like they didn't have great prospects, or characters that were very different from what a player would usually have chosen in the first place.

Awesome. I am genuinely and sincerely happy for you. But in *my* experience no one I know wants that. They want to play the character concept they have already. And you just reinforced why I want this thread deleted. But since that doesn't seem possible I'm out. You folks go ahead and have all the 'badwrongfun' pile-ons you want.

Opaopajr · January 14, 2018, 04:47:30 PM

Oh hey, you wrote 'badwrongfun' correctly this time!

You are listening!

S'mon · January 14, 2018, 04:53:30 PM

Quote from: Tetsubo;1016761I got a 9, 14, 14, 15, 16, 17. A good set by any measure. Now I just need to build a character around them... So, what would you play with these rolls?

STR 9 DE 14 CO 14 IN 15 WI 16 CH 17... I'm seeing a Mata Hari or Jane Bond type seductress/assassin, competent in combat (good DEX & CON) but really dominant in social situations - very smart, insightful & charming. I like 5e Rogues so I reckon I'd go Rogue (Assassin).