4th March 2008, 11:06 PM
Here's another thing. Randomness means characters are not initially balanced. Where's the balance? You randomly determine your stats via roll and that's what you get. Oh sure you could say "just reroll" but that defeats the point doesn't it? That's why I think one of the best revisions of that system PC games ever did was replace it with fixed stat points you spend in stats.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)