Party tips for custom rolled stats

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• ineth Member Posts: 707

  January 2016

  Those stats are pretty terrible compared to the ones the game would roll for you...
  
  Note that the game does not only discard rolls that fail to satisfy the minimum class requirements (like the aforementioned 17 CHA for Paladins) - it also discards rolls where the total is less than 75.
  Your hand-rolled characters, on the other hand, all have much lower totals than that.
  
  So if you really want to play through IWD with them, expect it to be unusually challenging...
  (And not just the combat - for example, inventory management also become quite annoying if all your chars have only low to medium STR.)
  
  As for what class to choose for them, I suppose the "Int 16" one could be a Mage or Fighter/Mage. A Gnome would get +1 INT as a racial bonus, making it 17 INT, which is servicable.
  
  And all of the characters could be Sorcerers, since that's the one class which doesn't really depend on any stat.
  
  I'm not really seeing any good melee builds though... :P

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• Yamcha Member Posts: 486

  January 2016

  con15 definitly goes to the tank.
  
  A normal run of icewind dale shouldn't get too hard though.
  For example, it doesnt really matter if you have strength 8 or 15, both have the same thac0 and damage bonuses (0,0)
  
  Check this list for comparison:
  http://playithardcore.com/pihwiki/index.php/Baldur's_Gate:_Races_and_Stats#Prime_Stats

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• butteredsoul Member Posts: 168

  January 2016

  Don't worry everybody. I've got this.

  Height00 said:

  
  Character 1 : Strength 8
  Dex 7
  Int 13
  wis 6
  cha 9
  

  Smart and unwise: this is your dual-class banker/white collar criminal who was thrown in jail for naively trusting the real thief.

  Height00 said:

  
  Character 2 Str: 13
  Dex 12
  Con 6
  Int 10
  Wis 14
  Cha 11
  

  Strong, wise, and sickly: this is your devout farmer with the chronic genetic disorder (maybe something like Hemophilia)

  Height00 said:

  
  Character 3 Str 9
  Dex 13
  Con 12
  Int 16
  Wis 4
  Cha 7
  

  The mad-scientist alchemist that rarely washes up, makes the best potions in town, trusts everybody, and has the common sense of a 4-year-old.

  Height00 said:

  
  Character 4 Str 6
  Dex 11
  Con 7
  Int 8
  wis 11
  cha 17
  

  The stripper.

  Height00 said:

  
  Character 5 Str 10
  Dex 9
  Con 15
  Int 6
  wis 13
  cha 10
  

  Dumb, hardy, and wise. The church janitor.

  Height00 said:

  
  Character 6 Str 12
  Dex 5
  Con 13
  int 11
  wis 9
  cha 12
  

  The obese town baker.
  
  Now keep rolling until you get some adventurers.

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• Wowo Member Posts: 2,064

  January 2016

  Most games I played you rolled something like 4d6 discard the lowest. Maybe try that instead?

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• Raduziel Member Posts: 4,714

  February 2016 edited February 2016

  They'll be good Commoners.
  
  Seriously, no DM would enforce those stats. It's a game breaking in a terrible way.
  
  In a AD&D scenario heroes are those who are above the average, and not below it. The average stat for a common person is 10.
  
  Here's how my DM (the best one I ever played with) tells us to roll ours stats: 5d6, discard the two lowest and every roll "1" becomes a "2".
  
  So if you've rolled: 6 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 for Wisdom the final score would be 11.

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• Bigfish Member Posts: 367

  February 2016

  You could do a slightly modified point-buy method. All stats start at 10, and you have 27 points to distribute among them. You can boost stats at the following rates:
  
  Stat Bonus Point Cost
  +1 1
  +2 2
  +3 3
  +4 4
  +5 5
  +6 7
  +7 9
  +8 12
  
  So you could end up with a stat line like 18,18,13,10,10,10, or 15,15,15,14,14,14. Reduce the base line or number of points if you're trying for lower stats. You basically end up with about a 79-87 total stat points depending on how high you want to push important stats for a class.
  
  Or you could just assign the flat 75 points however you want and end up with mostly OK stats on some particularly illiterate, foolish, and/or ugly folks.

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• Kilivitz Member Posts: 1,459

  February 2016

  My first advice to you, @Height00, would be: do not get involved with gambling.
  
  These are complicated stats. It seems all your characters are going to be gimped in some way. Sometimes they barely meet the minimum required for a class' primary stat and then are horribly low for a secondary stat.
  
  But if you're really adamant in trying out a party with those stats, here's what I'd do:
  
  Character 1: Sorcerer.
  Character 2: Cleric. Low on HPs and not many bonus spells but at least he/she can read scrolls.
  Character 3: Fighter/Mage. Have him/her using primarily bows.
  Character 4: Thief. Use him/her as your leader when talking to storekeepers.
  Character 5: Fighter. Use one-handed weapons and shields.
  Character 6: Fighter. Same as above, but different weapons.
  
  Not a lot of variety, but those characters don't meet the requirements for any fancy classes such as Ranger, Bard, Druid, etc. The Sorcerer barely makes the cut because it only requires a 9 on INT and CHA).
  
  Let us know how that game goes. It'll certainly be challenging.

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