I have no idea how the topic made it to fudging dice rolls from whether or not to use point buy vs rolling vs array.
Essentially it just depends on how powerful want your PCs. If you and the players are okay with one guy having +5 to three abilities and someone else barley getting +3 to one and has two in the negatives go with rolling. If you want players to be closer together and less powerful use the point buy method.
With 5th edition I think the point but method is better, especially with the cap of 20 and fests being exchanged for increases. With rolling you end up with someone who starts with a 20 in their primary stat and then is free to get feats without losing much while it might take another player 8 levels to reach 20 and feel more like being penalized for rolling low.
The players summoned the unicorn, not me. I let the Wild Magic Sorcerer roll all her wild magic rolls. It's her spell and her secondary effect.
That wasn't me fudging.
Also, the unicorn going to help the druid makes more sense than literally any other action it could've taken. The sorcerer who summoned it was an elf. Unicorns are good aligned forest protectors. The druid was a Neutral Good Druid of the Land (Forest). Saving/protecting him would obviously have been the most important thing it could've done.
The fact that it was a wild magic spell means there's no explanation required. In fact, to explain it away would take away the randomness of it all. It was as if the nature gods all intervened at once to make sure the druid didn't die (and that player played it as such for the rest of the campaign).
“It is a better world. A place where we are responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and because it is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.” ― Oramis, Eldest by Christopher Paolini.
Lets realign the conversation to the thread's title, "Roll vs Array vs Buy" for character creation. There are other threads created to discuss dice fudging and DM preferences.
Thank you for understanding.
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
This has gone far afield of the method-for-determining-stats topic...
I have no idea how the topic made it to fudging dice rolls from whether or not to use point buy vs rolling vs array.
Essentially it just depends on how powerful want your PCs. If you and the players are okay with one guy having +5 to three abilities and someone else barley getting +3 to one and has two in the negatives go with rolling. If you want players to be closer together and less powerful use the point buy method.
With 5th edition I think the point but method is better, especially with the cap of 20 and fests being exchanged for increases. With rolling you end up with someone who starts with a 20 in their primary stat and then is free to get feats without losing much while it might take another player 8 levels to reach 20 and feel more like being penalized for rolling low.
The players summoned the unicorn, not me. I let the Wild Magic Sorcerer roll all her wild magic rolls. It's her spell and her secondary effect.
That wasn't me fudging.
Also, the unicorn going to help the druid makes more sense than literally any other action it could've taken. The sorcerer who summoned it was an elf. Unicorns are good aligned forest protectors. The druid was a Neutral Good Druid of the Land (Forest). Saving/protecting him would obviously have been the most important thing it could've done.
The fact that it was a wild magic spell means there's no explanation required. In fact, to explain it away would take away the randomness of it all. It was as if the nature gods all intervened at once to make sure the druid didn't die (and that player played it as such for the rest of the campaign).
Click Here to Download my Lancer Class w/ Dragoon and Legionnaire Archetypes via DM's Guild - Pay What You Want
Click Here to Download the Mind Flayer: Thoon Hulk converted from 4e via DM's Guild
“It is a better world. A place where we are responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and because it is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.” ― Oramis, Eldest by Christopher Paolini.
Lets realign the conversation to the thread's title, "Roll vs Array vs Buy" for character creation. There are other threads created to discuss dice fudging and DM preferences.
Thank you for understanding.