I find it a little surprising that people who complain about point buy often say that it allows players to min/max their characters. It surprises me because our group actually started using point buy in order to prevent players from min/maxing. For example, we noticed that DMs rarely expected players to keep their ability scores if they rolled poorly, because it put them at a disadvantage compared to players who rolled well. We also noticed that DMs never expected players to roll again when they rolled exceptionally high on their ability scores. Because of this, we noticed players in our games often wound up with characters that had ability scores far higher than anything they would have had if they had used point buy.
I'm curious to know what sorts of experiences people have had with point buy. Have you noticed that it results in min/maxed characters, or have you noticed the opposite? Let me know.
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