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In which case he may as well just say "Pick your stats" or assign arrays from tye start instead if pretending he wants rolled stats.
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If PFS tradition was enforced in home games, I wholeheartedly believe that nearly all of my friends would abandon Pathfinder.
In which case he may as well just say "Pick your stats" or assign arrays from tye start instead if pretending he wants rolled stats.
It could be if he rolled once for each player before hand, but i prefer to let the players roll and pick from their luck , not mine.
And unless you mean to let the player roll until they get 6 18s , it isnt the same to letting them pick what they want , it just means if they get 4s and so on , you can allow them to try again.
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I'll stick with my conclusion. Axing the Scarred Witch Doctor's Con casting was to make the new class and burn seem better. The timing is WAY too coincidental, just like many other nerfs that JUST happened to show up when similar new options came out. It's long past happenstance and is now a pattern of behavior and/or their modus operandi.
I used to think that was just paranoia, until they actually started sticking advertising for upcoming products into their nerf-FAQs.
In my experience, most groups that go with rolled stats include some sort of failsafe mechanic to keep things from being too horribly unequal, even if it's just the GM saying "Wow, you got crappy rolls compared to Bob. Go ahead and re-roll."
Except, it does work for my campaign. I was using it as an example of a GM who DOES limit materials, and why. Hence, why I included "YMMV" at the end, because really, it's all just a matter of campaign style and preference.
It certainly works just fine for my group.
I think you have misunderstood me. I'm not talking about the play style. No, I mean that Specific example doesn't work since RotR wasn't designed around a certain sub-set of all game materials that were available. It was designed when there were tonnes and tonnes and tonnes of 3.5e sourcebooks available.
The idea of limiting an AP to content that existed at the time is sound, except for the pre-PFRPG ones (like rise of the runelords) since there is soooooooo much content available that you aren't allowing because they're from 3.5e not PF.
It's not a matter of preference, it's simply a matter of choosing the worst possible example.
I used to think that was just paranoia, until they actually started sticking advertising for upcoming products into their nerf-FAQs.
I'm still sincerely surprised that people took "accounting for material that breaks the ruling we just made as an FAQ" as "advertising".