Published by Jeremy on 4/18/2005 12:37:00 PM
Their doing Char creation as a point buy setup, so you can have a really ugly really stupid really strong barbarian as a tank, hey, that sounds like one of Farvas char:)
They kind of had to use point-buy to make it fair. Rolls are far too random for an online game that has to rely on numbers for balance (and not a DM that can manipulate encounters/loot to make things more fair for someone who plays well, but got a bad set of rolls on creation.) It also solves the problem of just having people re-create characters 900 times until they get that one who rolled 2 or 3 18s.
Of course, we're still going to see an assload of 3 CHA / 20 STR Half-Orc Barbarians.
They kind of had to use point-buy to make it fair. Rolls are far too random for an online game that has to rely on numbers for balance (and not a DM that can manipulate encounters/loot to make things more fair for someone who plays well, but got a bad set of rolls on creation.) It also solves the problem of just having people re-create characters 900 times until they get that one who rolled 2 or 3 18s.
Of course, we're still going to see an assload of 3 CHA / 20 STR Half-Orc Barbarians.