Other player wants to roll dice instead of point byt /u/Miserable_Guide1605 DnD: Roll for Initiative!

This is not a debate about which is better point buy or rolling dice.

The situation is that the campaign we currently play is ending soon and one of my fellow player Jeff (not his real name) is going to DM our next campaign and has asked the rest of us to send in character sheets, but he let us know he wants us to use point buy or standard array.

This did not fly for Seth (not his real name) who is notorious for always having the highest stats and 3 to 5 feats in every game we’ve played so far. He argues that point buy means our character are no longer unique, because we can’t have a 18 Stat at level 1 and also argues that our characters will be forced to have a dump Stat which isn’t fun

Jeff is conflicted because everyone else is okay with point buy, but Seth is not and Jeff doesn’t want to be the reason that the party falls apart.

So I talked with Jeff about this since this will be Jeff’s first DMing how hard it was for me as a DM in the past to plan encounters when you had characters that are extremely strong and characters that were below average because we went with rolling for stats.

I also said that it’s his campaign not Seth’s and if Seth didn’t like it he didn’t have to play.

I will acknowledge out of DnD I like Seth and we do get along, but in DnD I dislike all of his characters (all combat and almost no RP)

I hope this goes well for Jeff. I believe I gave Jeff the right advice, but I hope I didn’t steer him wrong you know?

This is not a debate about which is better point buy or rolling dice.

The situation is that the campaign we currently play is ending soon and one of my fellow player Jeff (not his real name) is going to DM our next campaign and has asked the rest of us to send in character sheets, but he let us know he wants us to use point buy or standard array.

This did not fly for Seth (not his real name) who is notorious for always having the highest stats and 3 to 5 feats in every game we’ve played so far. He argues that point buy means our character are no longer unique, because we can’t have a 18 Stat at level 1 and also argues that our characters will be forced to have a dump Stat which isn’t fun

Jeff is conflicted because everyone else is okay with point buy, but Seth is not and Jeff doesn’t want to be the reason that the party falls apart.

So I talked with Jeff about this since this will be Jeff’s first DMing how hard it was for me as a DM in the past to plan encounters when you had characters that are extremely strong and characters that were below average because we went with rolling for stats.

I also said that it’s his campaign not Seth’s and if Seth didn’t like it he didn’t have to play.

I will acknowledge out of DnD I like Seth and we do get along, but in DnD I dislike all of his characters (all combat and almost no RP)

I hope this goes well for Jeff. I believe I gave Jeff the right advice, but I hope I didn’t steer him wrong you know?