Yanisa
2014-07-29, 12:12 PM
So I have had a character idea lying around for a Synthesist lying around for ages, build around the idea of a weak character making a faustian deal to get power. It also lead to point buy abuse, but that was not my first intend. For the longest time it sounded like the next campaign would have point buy do, mainly because of fact the party rolls uneven. 3 people tend to high rolls, I tend to roll average, and my other friend tends to roll beyond poorly. Yet yesterday the next DM said: "let's roll". So I rolled 9, 11, 14, 16, 13, 16. (The other 2 people that rolled, one rolled 14,14,15,15,16,16 and the other, the low roller, had something sad like 7,7,8,10,12,14 and rerolled something with a 14, a 16, and some numbers between 10 and 13...)
So my rolls are decent, but do put me in some conflict. I can't really rollplay the idea of having a weak character that depends on its eidolon, so I might need to do that with roleplay, or just give myself flaws (without getting any benefit back). Still I dunno with to do with my stats, I boasted to my friends that I could play them in the order I rolled, but would give me a constitution better then in Eidolon form, 14 total. And a mere 13 wisdom. Then again I was also consider to put my only 9 into constitution to at least have something semblance to my first character draft.
So I was wondering if any of you guys had some opinions to help me settle. Should I be cool and go without any rearrangement, should I gimp myself for roleplay or should I just go with the sensible stats for a Synthesist and find some other way to portray my backstory?
So my rolls are decent, but do put me in some conflict. I can't really rollplay the idea of having a weak character that depends on its eidolon, so I might need to do that with roleplay, or just give myself flaws (without getting any benefit back). Still I dunno with to do with my stats, I boasted to my friends that I could play them in the order I rolled, but would give me a constitution better then in Eidolon form, 14 total. And a mere 13 wisdom. Then again I was also consider to put my only 9 into constitution to at least have something semblance to my first character draft.
So I was wondering if any of you guys had some opinions to help me settle. Should I be cool and go without any rearrangement, should I gimp myself for roleplay or should I just go with the sensible stats for a Synthesist and find some other way to portray my backstory?