So what are the best stats(starting and final) you ever had in P1e? Also was it a point buy or rolled?
We rolled stats for Kingmaker, and the GM decided to try something new - 5d6 keep the highest 3, and then we rolled 7 sets and kept the highest 6.
I rolled 17, 17, 16, 14, 14, 13 . I was a long way from the best stats in our 6 person party.
In retrospect this was obviously a mistake. The GM got so burnt out trying to balance encounters around our unkillable god-party and the game fizzled and died.
It's fun to be invincibke and wreck face occasionally, but I think it's more fun to actually be challenged. I do respect that people play for different reasons though, so if all you want is to stomp some goblins into oblivion then more power to you.
Playing icewind dale with my friends we started the game from level 1, I rolled 4d6 and the GM, me and my friends were surprised when my roll gave 16, 17, 17, 18, 15, 18 (so much that my best friend asked me to change my two 18s in exchange for half of all his experience and his 14, 13) in the end I create a cleric
We finished the game at level 17 and I ended up as cleric 3 / dread necromancer 4 / true necromancer 10 and increase my int to 20 and Cha to 20
I still have the 7 character sheets that I liked the most (including this character)
All 18s, wow, just wow, that would be awesome.
I had rolled 18, 17, 17, 17, 15, 12 once… but my GM insisted that I reroll my stats because “that spread is just too good”…
Edit: my reroll wasn’t too much different though… 18, 16, 15, 15, 14, 12
Just dug out the character sheet to pull up her stats again… by the end of the campaign I had over 40 strength on the character (and would you believe the 18 wasn’t in strength, it was charisma)
I don't think i've ever rolled in PF1e, but i did back in 3.5
It was 4d6 drop the lowest, reroll 1s, roll 9 times drop the 3 lowest result.
If i remember correctly i got : 18, 16, 16, 16, 16, 13.
In retrospect i guess i kind of ''wasted'' those stats on a Grey elf wizard, but it was funny to have a Grey Elf Wizard with a non-negative strength score sitting at 11.
I don't remember the exact numbers, but I once rolled for stats and got nothing below a 10. Nothing higher than 16 either (before a +2 from race), but it was still a nice stat line.
Seriously, I do NOT understand how folks get the rolls they get when they dice up their stats. Maybe its loaded dice, or good karma, or deals with Profane or Divine entities, I don't know. The reality is that I am used to being the runt of every party I play in.
They Abort characters over and over until they get scores that high.
It's a big part of why we switched to point buy.
As for highest stats I've ever had, back in 2E the GM expanded that stat tables to go to 36, with appropriate bonuses and added abilities at high stats. On the Constitution table, once you got to a certain stat (25 I think), you then had enough "stamina" to "workout" in various ways and raise all the other stats to the same level as your CON. So at that point we all just boosted CON With any magic items, etc, and then "trained" the other stats up. My character topped out at 32's across the board.
I had a kineticist once who, with rolled stats including 16, 16, 17 walked around at 18th level with 38 Con and 33 dex (including the size bonus from elemental overflow, the +6 belt, and two +5 stat manuals.)
Final Stats were, IIRC
STR 9
DEX 33
CON 38
WIS 22 (headband)
INT 13
CHA 9
Seriously, I do NOT understand how folks get the rolls they get when they dice up their stats. Maybe its loaded dice, or good karma, or deals with Profane or Divine entities, I don't know. The reality is that I am used to being the runt of every party I play in.They Abort characters over and over until they get scores that high.
It's a big part of why we switched to point buy.
I heard about people doing that, but never saw it in play. Once I rolled up a 1st edition AD&D character whose highest ability score was a 12, with a hit die roll of 1 hit point. No matter what I did, he somehow survived (as I was willing to take reckless chances with him but stopped short of direct suicide).
2e D&D game. Rolled with the DM's dice right in front of him: 2 18's, 4 17's. Went elven fighter/mage/thief because why not! Still the only character who died that campaign.
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PB 20,
late middle-aged,
Forge-Master Cleric
Dwarf:
Str 15
Dex 7
Con 15
Int 15
Wis 15
Cha 7
the most satisfying, and yet at the same time the most stroke-inducing stat array I've ever played with. Of course, when factoring in everything else is becomes:
Str 14
Dex 6
Con 16
Int 16
Wis 18
Cha 6
Roleplaying him as an insufferable (6-Cha), arthritic (6-Dex), but wise, knowledgeable and resilient Dwarf has been one of the best experiences I've had in this game. Through a patchwork of classes and PrCs, he went all the way from 1st to 20th level in a Kingmaker campaign which took our group about 3 years to complete. He will be missed.
I need to find my character with rolled stats but I think it was this when I started with this character...
Lv 7 Kineticist(Aether)
Stats
Str 6
Dex 16
Con 21
Int 12
Wis 10
Cha 14
I don't remember if I had a stat boosting item yet.
Seriously, I do NOT understand how folks get the rolls they get when they dice up their stats. Maybe its loaded dice, or good karma, or deals with Profane or Divine entities, I don't know. The reality is that I am used to being the runt of every party I play in.They Abort characters over and over until they get scores that high.
It's a big part of why we switched to point buy.
We've never had this issue in the groups I've played with... we always rolled our stats at the start of session 1...
Seriously, I do NOT understand how folks get the rolls they get when they dice up their stats. Maybe its loaded dice, or good karma, or deals with Profane or Divine entities, I don't know. The reality is that I am used to being the runt of every party I play in.They Abort characters over and over until they get scores that high.
It's a big part of why we switched to point buy.
I heard about people doing that, but never saw it in play. Once I rolled up a 1st edition AD&D character whose highest ability score was a 12, with a hit die roll of 1 hit point. No matter what I did, he somehow survived (as I was willing to take reckless chances with him but stopped short of direct suicide).
It usually happens before play.. As in "I rolled these stats but they suck, so I'm gonna try again" rinse repeat until you get awesome stats