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braxzana
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Skimmed through eight pages and did not see this mentioned, so here we go.
During character creation, there is a button to re-roll your attribute scores. As something of an OCD gamer, I routinely roll TONS of dice at character creation, hoping for the "best" roll I can get. In the course of doing this, I noticed something odd with the Trickster Rogue and the Guardian Fighter:
When you hit the ReRoll button, it seems to generate new numbers... but then if you hit it again, it does NOT generate any new numbers ---- it just re-displays the FIRST set of numbers. If you just hit the ReRoll button over and over and over, you can see that it only ever TOGGLES between those two sets of numbers.
I might have thought that that was intentional --- that "rerolling" just meant that you had ONE other choice (which seemed unlikely). But the Devoted Cleric character I created had access to at LEAST four sets of numbers. Looking at the primary stat, on the Rogue and Fighter it only ever flickered between two numbers (and I did check that the other numbers also remained from just the two Sets of numbers). With the Devoted Cleric, however, the primary attribute took on FOUR different values (17, 18, 19, 20)...
I did not double-check whether every time there was a 17 for primary all the other stats were X set of numbers and never varied.... I would hope that I could have that 17 primary stat and the others WOULD vary, meaning it was a true "re roll" of all numbers. But even if they were the same (which they should NOT be), that's still FOUR sets of attribute scores instead of the two for the Fighter and Rogue.
In short, the "re-roll" button DOESN'T seem to actually re-roll.
I submitted an in-game bug report as well, but thought I'd mention it here, too.
During character creation, there is a button to re-roll your attribute scores. As something of an OCD gamer, I routinely roll TONS of dice at character creation, hoping for the "best" roll I can get. In the course of doing this, I noticed something odd with the Trickster Rogue and the Guardian Fighter:
When you hit the ReRoll button, it seems to generate new numbers... but then if you hit it again, it does NOT generate any new numbers ---- it just re-displays the FIRST set of numbers. If you just hit the ReRoll button over and over and over, you can see that it only ever TOGGLES between those two sets of numbers.
I might have thought that that was intentional --- that "rerolling" just meant that you had ONE other choice (which seemed unlikely). But the Devoted Cleric character I created had access to at LEAST four sets of numbers. Looking at the primary stat, on the Rogue and Fighter it only ever flickered between two numbers (and I did check that the other numbers also remained from just the two Sets of numbers). With the Devoted Cleric, however, the primary attribute took on FOUR different values (17, 18, 19, 20)...
I did not double-check whether every time there was a 17 for primary all the other stats were X set of numbers and never varied.... I would hope that I could have that 17 primary stat and the others WOULD vary, meaning it was a true "re roll" of all numbers. But even if they were the same (which they should NOT be), that's still FOUR sets of attribute scores instead of the two for the Fighter and Rogue.
In short, the "re-roll" button DOESN'T seem to actually re-roll.
I submitted an in-game bug report as well, but thought I'd mention it here, too.
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I don't think it matters like it does in pnp, but it is kinda crappy to make you roll for something that is limited anyways. Sorry Cryptic : (
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As it is, I think point tree choices or picking from templates are probably the way to go. Rolls are always -- meh -- someone will write an app that clicks for you and only those with the uber l33t skills to install and use it will be able to max that stats. Going with point buys or picking from templates == more fun, faster, for the player. Munchkins be darned...