Path of War Point Buy

[Archmage Joda]

So, I'll be making a path of war character for an upcoming game (based off Akuma from street fighter, from my thread a while back), but am unsure how to manage the stats. The thing is, we're on a 15 point buy, and I had planned on going Aurora Soul Mystic, but with needing Str, Dex, Con, and Wis, I feel a little stretched thin. How should I jigger my stats with 15 pt buy to work with, at level 6?

[DungeonmasterCal]

I don't like the point buy system in the least, but 15 points does sound pretty weak for a character that you want to be as tough as the Street Fighter character, or even just to emulate him. I don't have any real advice for you, just throwing my unsolicited two cents in.

[Anguish]

I can't really help much either. As a DM, I allow a 25-point buy with some stipulations. Only one stat is allowed to be 18 after racial adjustments, and no stat is allowed to be below 10 after racial adjustments. I've made it clear to my players why I do this; breadth of capability, not max-min, so I don't see 18,17,12,10,10,10 human characters.

But that doesn't help you. You've got enough points to get three scores to +2. Something's going to suffer. Probably the party.

[Ellioti]

Maybe you can go Human with Dual talent alt. racial trait. People should stop crying about 15-point buy, it's designed to be the standard array by the core rules.

[Air0r]

Ellioti wrote:

Maybe you can go Human with Dual talent alt. racial trait. People should stop crying about 15-point buy, it's designed to be the standard array by the core rules.

People complain about 15 point buy because it favors spellcasters and any class that only needs to rely on one or two good stats.