Is this point buy right?

[lastknightleft]

so my character rolled up as stats
9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16 in that order cool huh?

Anywho, my DM told me to convert figure out what point buy my stats were so that I could e-mail two people joining our group and they can have characters ready.

But when I did the math it came out to 21 points. I didn't think the stats were that high fantasy. can someone double check this and tell me if I'm right?

[Samuli]

lastknightleft wrote:

But when I did the math it came out to 21 points. I didn't think the stats were that high fantasy.

Yep, you're right. They're not that high :)

Frankly, the racial bonuses give you a potential 18, or even an 18 and a 17. Whether we like it or not, that's the new standard for high fantasy.

[seekerofshadowlight]

sad fact this can be blamed on the so called elite array. every player I have rolls better then that hands down

[lastknightleft]

Hey you know what? I'm actually happy by that. I think that it captures how I see DnD as opposed to the old WotC boards where you would hear people say that characters can't function without an eighteen and some people said that they never played without at least two. The drive to have high stats always bothered me so I like that what I see as pretty average stats (11, 10, 12, 11, 17, 16 after racial mods) are considered high fantasy.

[Jal Dorak]

For PRPG, you are correct, those stats correspond to 21 point buy.

In 3.5, they would work out to 28 points.

For a long time I used rolling, but the more munchkins I play with, the more I am leaning to switching to low point buy or elite arrays.

[lastknightleft]

The point buy is just so that we don't have to wait for them to create characters while we want to play.