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#1 thecasualoblivion Nov 10, 2008 11:42:31

I found myself somewhat unhappy with the 4E point buy. Its probably the best balanced way to do it, but you really have to sacrifice to make it work given the current rules. Its difficult to have high scores in your primaries and still have a few points here and there for feat qualification and skill use, to say nothing of MAD(Paladin, I'm looking at you). I find giving out more points really unbalances things, as 20s start becoming really common and people just take advantage to become more "uber". My solution, which I've been really happy with so far, is a trade off. Players get: 26 point buy instead of 22 Players lose: No stats above 18 after racial modifiers All in all, you get some extra points to improve your 3rd-5th important stats, races that don't get the +2 to a stat can get an 18 more painlessly, skills and defenses become more consistent across characters, and a semblance of balance is maintained with the loss of level one 20 stats.