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PoopStainMcGee
2013-04-11, 04:34 PM
So, I was building my Encounters character, and super pumped about trying out 5e.

So I start rolling my stats, and get a 13,13,15,17,17,18. After Racial and Class bonuses my little Human Cleric ends up with 14,14,16,18,18,20.

I am so damn happy. I wish this was for a legit long-term campaign instead of Encounters.

What is your best set of Ability scores?

RandomLunatic
2013-04-11, 04:50 PM
I once rolled an 18, 18, 17, 16, 16, 13. My elven ranger ended up with 16, 20, 16, 16, 17, 13.

laeZ1
2013-04-11, 04:51 PM
I've never rolled well in any system but d20Modern. All of my fantasy characters average a total modifier of +6-8.

I've only played two d20 modern campaigns, neither of them had any rolls under 14.

Malrone
2013-04-11, 05:10 PM
Wasn't my rolls, but hot damn. This lucky SOB was making his first Pathfinder character, using my little pip dice, when suddenly
16 - 17 - 16 - 18 -17 -16

I barely managed an Elite array that round of char gen.

PoopStainMcGee
2013-04-11, 05:15 PM
Wasn't my rolls, but hot damn. This lucky SOB was making his first Pathfinder character, using my little pip dice, when suddenly
16 - 17 - 16 - 18 -17 -16

I barely managed an Elite array that round of char gen.
Hot damn indeed.

Oddly enough, I also had nice rolls my first Pathfinder character, something like an 18, 17, 2 16s, 15, and 13.

Dr.Epic
2013-04-11, 05:52 PM
Two 18's, a 16, two 14's, and a 12.

And I played a fighter no multiclassing because what other class than fighter needs those kind of stats?:smallwink:

Xefas
2013-04-11, 07:19 PM
So, in an AD&D game I played in high school, we were rolling up characters when one of the other players rolled his Strength (something low, like an 8 or 9 - keep in mind that AD&D was "roll 3d6 in order"), and then, frustrated, asked the GM why we used 3d6 to generate stats. His answer was something like "Well, it works out so that the scores that are more common and normal for humans are the most likely to be rolled, whereas the upper and lower limits of the human body are comparatively rare."

The player took a second to think and replied "But I wanna be a hero. I don't want to be normal. Couldn't I roll a d20 for my stats? That works out to give a range pretty close to the 3-18 of a 3d6, but it has the same chance of making me superhuman as it does of making me average."

The two conversed back and forth on the subject for a while, during which the rest of us were continuing to make our characters. Finally, the GM relented, and permitted the player to roll a d20 for his stats "...but I doubt you'll like the results." To which the player proceeded to roll a 20 for his Dexterity. Suffice it to say, the practice was banned forever, and the player was back to rolling 3d6. But, he did get to keep that base 20 for his Dexterity.

With good reason, he proceeded to put that 20 Dex to use by playing a Thief. And he was quite the glorious Thief, on his way to out-leveling us all by a mile, owing to the fact that Thieves required less XP to level than everyone else back in the day, and that classes got an XP bonus for having a high primary ability score (Dex for a Thief).

Sadly, his adventures were cut rather short several sessions later. Owing to a 5 Constitution, he had something like 2 hit points at first level, and it didn't get much better after that. Still, he was fun while he lasted.

SowZ
2013-04-11, 08:14 PM
18-17-16-15-13-10 in 4d6b3.

TheThan
2013-04-11, 08:19 PM
On 4d6 best3
18-18-18-17-16-16

played the most charismatic orc you've ever met.
ending stats looked like this :

STR 22, dex 18, con 16, int 14, wis, 15, char16

Jay R
2013-04-11, 08:29 PM
The second character I ever rolled, in 1975, with 3d6 in order, immediately after Greyhawk came out and gave us Paladins, had above average DEX and CON, 16 STR and an 18 CHA - an incredibly unlikely event.

AuraTwilight
2013-04-11, 08:40 PM
I once had a start of a campaign where the DM had us roll because he didn't want us to use point buy...and everyone ended up rolling straight 18's. Using his dice.

And then we rolled awfully the rest of the night.

Krazzman
2013-04-12, 03:25 AM
Pathfinder 4d6b3.

Dwarf Druid (level 2) with endstats:
18 Str, 16 dex, 19 Con, 16 Int, 20 Wis, 12 cha.

I asked if I should use pointbuy instead, since the rest rolled near abysmally but the DM said I should use it.

Else I have seen a Human Paladin/Purple Dragon Knight, in a level 12(?) group have stats:
18 18 18 18 17 16.

Hopeless
2013-04-12, 06:28 AM
Human male Cleric of Helm

Str 16, Dex 17, Cons 16, Int 14, Wis 16, Cha 14

This was originally under 2e and gm allowed an attribute increase every level so i got to increase Charisma to 15 before it was switched to 3e and then increased Charisma to 16 and then 17 for 4th and 8th level respectively.

Briefly reached 9th but was assassinated in a church after encountering the first cleric of Helm outside of Waterdeep since the game started...

Managed to buy a set of gloves of Dexterity +2 so his Dex is currently 19 albeit wearing a suit of +1 half plate so only helps with Reflex saves and ranged attacks...

Left that group over 3 years or so ago and haven't forgotten...

Stopped running d&d since I was the only one in my current group who runs it except for a short period where I ran a female human fighter under 2e that was shifted to Gurps... then the gm tried to turn my character into a cleric... didn't work as if I was going to let him remove the first character I've run in several years that doesn't spellcast at all!:smallsmile:

allonym
2013-04-12, 06:42 AM
Call of Cthulhu (Delta Green): After modifications, my MOSSAD agent ended up with: (3d6) Str 15, Con 15, Dex 15, App 9, Pow 15; (2d6+6) Size 18, Int 17; (3d6+3, with bonuses from age) Edu 21.

This being Call of Cthulhu, they weren't that helpful :P

Tanuki Tales
2013-04-12, 07:47 AM
For Dungeons and Dragons 3.5, a player of mine once rolled six 18s in a row. We all watched him do it and had him pick up a different dice (none of them were his, he didn't own dice) each time.

And that was what convinced me to start doing a Point Buy from then on. :smallbiggrin:

Lorsa
2013-04-12, 08:09 AM
What sort of rolling are we talking about? People can roll scores in many different ways, and different systems have different abilities etc. I only ever roll good abilities when I roll for NPCs. The one I liked the most was in D&D 3.5 when using the 4d6 drop lowest I got: 18, 18, 16, 14, 14, 12. Which is the same as one other person here I see! That was for a fighter as well.

Angel Bob
2013-04-12, 08:31 AM
One of my friends rolled up ability scores for a fighter the other day and scored an 18, 17, 15, 15, 14, 14 -- far and away the best array in our entire party. She's clearly going to be the star of the show. :smalltongue:

BlckDv
2013-04-12, 01:15 PM
Well, given that the Op did not elect to define "best" I'll chime in that my best set of Ability Scores rolled would have to be my (after mods) 16 Str, 20 Con, 12 Dex, 7 Int, 20 Wis, 14 Cha. Oh man was it glorious to have more hit points than sanity demanded, but be dumb as a brick. I played him off as being shrewd and skilled at tactics from his Wisdom, but extremely ignorant and unworldly, borderline illiterate. The joy of being baffled at why my friends didn't seem so happy to meet the Cave Elves I had been trying to track so I could make friends with them; or the time I completely derailed the villain's plan (and gave the party fits) when I asked in all sincerity about joining the religious cult so I could learn more about his god...

My second Best rolled PC would have to be my very old 18/93 Str, 9 Con, 6 Dex, 17 Int, 12 Wis, 13 Cha. The fun I had with him definitely gives me a soft spot for Roy and other Smart Fighters.

Yeah, as much as I love the glory of a rolled 18, I don't think I'd really enjoy playing a PC for more than a one off if I didn't have something to balance it out. My Best rolled PCs are all the ones with at least a dash of low with the high.

Scow2
2013-04-12, 01:37 PM
One of my friends rolled up ability scores for a fighter the other day and scored an 18, 17, 15, 15, 14, 14 -- far and away the best array in our entire party. She's clearly going to be the star of the show. :smalltongue:

Not if your party has a Wizard in it. Good stats can't save a bad class.

VeisuItaTyhjyys
2013-04-12, 02:39 PM
I haven't rolled anything particularly memorable in tabletop D&D, but I've had a couple absolutely ridiculous rolls in the old Bioware games. Now, I don't mean that I sat around hitting "reroll" until I got good scores, I mean that I clicked the abilities button and, without hitting re-roll once, there they were. The best ever, though, came in the strangest place; I was playing the original Icewind Dale, making a mage who amounted to a joke character that only existed to be pulled into the party every so often so that he could cast identify when I didn't want to rest. Well, this one-trick pony had other plans for himself, though, since I clicked the abilities button and clicked "okay," without even bothering to look at the scores, only to notice as I was entering a name ("Gunther the Leprechaun") that, to my befuddlement, the little guy had straight eighteens. Well, actually, four eighteens, a seventeen, and a nineteen, since he was a gnome, but, you know, still.

That said, I still just used him to identify stuff.

Seharvepernfan
2013-04-12, 05:39 PM
4d6b3, 18/17/17/16/16/16, but this was in 2001 when I was like 13 or so, and it happened to be my first character, so naturally I used those on a human bastard sword specialist who used it one handed with a shield in the other, took whirlwind attack, and never had power attack.

John Campbell
2013-04-12, 07:21 PM
My first ever D&D character had an 18/00 Strength. Rolled on 3d6 + 1d%. The rest of his stats were only average, though.

I played a fighter/mage with 18/36, 17, 16, 16, 15, 13, rolled on 4d6k3. Rolled snake-eyes on the (1d10+1d4)/2 for his starting hit dice, though, so with the 16 Con, he had 3 hp. I rolled minimum height and near-maximum weight for a male half-elf, too... that character was just a statistical oddity all around.

Guy in a game I was running one time rolled 18, 18, 18, 18, 17, 17 on 4d6k3. I tried out his dice when he was out of the room, and, out of twenty rolls, never got anything lower than a 16, and more 18s than not. I let him use the character, despite the obviously loaded dice. I think he thought he was getting away with something. The character didn't survive the first session. Any time anything bad happened, it happened to him. Any time a monster was in doubt about who to attack, it attacked him. Ultimately he was killed in a squabble with the other PCs, because he was the kind of douchecanoe who cheats at RPGs, both in and out of character (if there was a distinction).

Jay R
2013-04-13, 08:32 AM
... because he was the kind of douchecanoe who cheats at RPGs, both in and out of character (if there was a distinction).

If I understand what you mean by cheating in character, then there is a clear difference. Cheating out of character is breaking the rules. Cheating in character is staying within the rules and using them to faithfully portray a character who betrays his team-mates.

Or did you mean something else?

Limited Gish
2013-04-13, 09:12 AM
The best stats I've rolled thus far was my first real character. It was 3.5, in my DM's HomeBrewed world. I rolled 18, 18, 16, 18, 17, 17. It was for a favored soul of Boccob. Game ended at 12th level with me having 18 in every stat except CON. My character was almost always a level behind the only other player in the group, a Multi-classed dragon shaman/rouge.

Edit: Note, it was extremely low on optimization. Except on my part, being new to the game and trying to be the best I could be.

SiuiS
2013-04-13, 01:03 PM
I have once, once, rolled straight 18s on 3d6 for a "gritty" game of 1e D&D. Best wizard ever; I had 3 hit points! way more than usual.


I once rolled an 18, 18, 17, 16, 16, 13. My elven ranger ended up with 16, 20, 16, 16, 17, 13.

Nice. This is what my 3.5 group started taking as a standard array, eventually. Everyone a thte table - some six of us - rolled this, only we were doing 4d6b3, roll seven attributes and drop one. We all dropped a 15 for the 13 because unversally high attributes are kinda boring... And we all felt smug enough to brag about it.

Lot of creeped out players that night.

Oh! And we had a guy who really wanted to play monk, and kept rolling his die (using just one, four times, keep three per attribute) so that it came corner up, like, a 6 and a 2 or something. For about fifteen minutes. The DM confiscated the die, tested it, and just shrugged and gave him the 8, for a total of 20 wisdom at chargen, human. The character aw two games before the guy lost interest.

John Campbell
2013-04-13, 04:21 PM
If I understand what you mean by cheating in character, then there is a clear difference. Cheating out of character is breaking the rules. Cheating in character is staying within the rules and using them to faithfully portray a character who betrays his team-mates.

Or did you mean something else?
No, what I meant was that there was no significant distinction between his "in-character" and his "out-of-character". He was not playing a character; he was playing himself with cheaty stats and no real consequences to his actions. And the self that he was playing was a douchecanoe of the sort who cheats at role-playing games.

I probably should have phrased that as: "...because he was, both in and out of character (if there was a distinction), the kind of douchecanoe who cheats at RPGs."

Amphetryon
2013-04-13, 06:26 PM
2e, 3d6x7 as you like, 18 18 17 17 17 16. Hooray for legit Paladin rolls in 2e.

Felandria
2013-04-14, 01:59 AM
17, 16, 16, 15, 13, 13.

Those would be Felandria's actually, being a Sorcerer, I started with a 19 Charisma, threw the 13s in Str and Wis and the 16s in Int and Con.

Every other time, I got stuck with a couple of 10s

SiuiS
2013-04-14, 03:24 AM
2e, 3d6x7 as you like, 18 18 17 17 17 16. Hooray for legit Paladin rolls in 2e.

Wish I ha thought of that. I've been trying I roll a legit 1e paladin or bard for ages. The dice hate me. :smallfrown:

Oh well. Still rockin that wizard.

Guizonde
2013-04-14, 12:39 PM
first ever character was a heavily modified and homebrewed dark eye. i rolled max scores. combined with the fact that i was playing a baby troll, i was brutal. the dm docked 6 from all my rolls and gave them to another player, playing rincewind's pet magic chest. he had a top at 8. my top was 24. my lowest was a 4 in int. from then on, my other characters have oscillated with an average of 14 across the board (i'm lucky when creating characters).

Gamgee
2013-04-14, 11:06 PM
I can't remember the character. I think it was a Star Wars Saga one. 17, 18, 16, 16, 15, 14. Oh boy was I ever happy. I usually roll crappy stats 95% of the time.

IW Judicator
2013-04-14, 11:26 PM
I have a tendency to roll very, very badly (to the point where I'm offered a number of rerolls just to keep up with the rest of the group). On rare occasions I'll get something good (IIRC my best rolled character to date was a RIFTS Wilderness Explorer). Though traditionally I suppose I do tend to roll high on damage...but that's not starting abilities now is it? :smalltongue: (That, and my critical successes tend to be a notch above the norm..but they aren't common either..)

On the other hand, the best I've seen in play that I can remember was in D&D 3.5, in which the player rolled straight 16's for his starting attributes. For what pretty much boiled down to no reason whatsoever, he decided to play a Human Samurai. The group turned his character to Chaotic Evil in about 5 minutes and the next session he realized that his character needed to commit suicide because of his class. Good times...good times (I also rolled particularly badly in that game...but I still had fun with my warlock).

CombatOwl
2013-04-17, 05:50 PM
18 18 17 8 17 16

In that order, for second edition d&d using 3d6 in order. Character lasted for ages.

I recall being both happy and annoyed, because I had been wanting to play a magic user. :smallwink: