what is the highest point buy you have rolled?

[Dusk Eclipse]

I am a bit bored and decided to see what was the point buy equivalent of the highest stats I have rolled on 4d6b3.

It is the equivalent of a 63 point buy (18 18 17 16 13 11)

So what is yours?

[Yora]

I don't think I ever rolled any ability scores.

[Lord Loss]

One of my players rolled, on 5d6 either

18,18,17,17,17,16 or 18,18,17,17,16,16. I forget which

[Dusk Eclipse]

Yora: I guess you always use point buy then, and personally I prefer it to rolling but my group prefers the "randomness" of rolling.

Lord Loss: I am jealous

[Tanuki Tales]

A guy in my group rolled 6 18s in a row. We watched him do it and were dumb founded.

[Stompy]

18 17 16 14 10 9 (48 Pb)

[Dienekes]

I hate rolling for stats, because I have never rolled well.

My best I have ever rolled was 15, 14, 14, 12, 11, 8. 4d6b3.

[Daelen]

The best rolled stats I've ever used was 18,18,17,16,15,14


Which amounts to a 69 point buy

[LurkerInPlayground]

A guy in my group rolled 6 18s in a row. We watched him do it and were dumb founded.

I'd just say that guy was using loaded dice.

[Coplantor]

With 4d6 six times drop lowest I got 18 18 18 16 14 14, my current character.

[Tanuki Tales]

I'd just say that guy was using loaded dice.

They weren't. We provided him the dice. We've had to on multiple occasions switch out the dice he was using because he just rolls too damn well.

[Snake-Aes]

Generally we don't roll... The Long group uses 18,18,17,16,15,14, the Short Group uses 50~ points buy and always maxed hit points per dice. Doesn't help.

[Coplantor]

Generally we don't roll... The Long group uses 18,18,17,16,15,14, the Short Group uses 50~ points buy and always maxed hit points per dice. Doesn't help.

Wow, and I felt guilty when I told my players they had 18, 16, 14, 14, 12, 10 for stats

[Snake-Aes]

Wow, and I felt guilty when I told my players they had 18, 16, 14, 14, 12, 10 for stats

Don't be if you know how to make them suffer. The Long Group is also a gestalt, and when we fight intelligent monsters, and they had time to prepare, they're Tuckers.

[Furnok]

I have a drow character roll:
Str 16
Dex 18 (20)
Con 18 (16)
Int 18 (20)
Wis 14
Cha 18 (20)

My DM is very old school and let me roll him the way his DM let him roll characters back in 2nd edition. The ammount of dice you roll differ depending on your class. My character started out as a figher so the # of dice break down like this and you only take the best of 3 dice per stat:

Str 6d6
Dex 4d6
Con 6d6
Int 3d6
Wis 3d6
Cha 4d6

I started him at 1st level he is now fighter 4/Ranger 2/Rogue 2 and has an 18 Con now. He is probably one of my favorite characters ever.

[Kobold-Bard]

Yora: I guess you always use point buy then, and personally I prefer it to rolling but my group prefers the "randomness" of rolling.

Lord Loss: I am jealous

I do to. That's why my games always get a really low Point Buy alternative to sort of nudge players into taking their rolls (I got criticized hard for having no point buy at all).

I recall working out my scores as a 62 PB once, can't remember the numbers though.

[Mojo_Rat]

one of the players i used to play with regularly rolled characters with multiple 18's the best being 4 i think, all in front of the Dm so there was never a question of cheating.

the problem though is in play once given a d20'd he roll low single digit numbers like karma was evening out again so the high stats often didnt matter.

[JaronK]

Best I ever got was 17, 17, 16, 16, 11, 10. Never got anything better.

JaronK

[Morph Bark]

I'm not sure what the highest is, but I could check with an old character sheet...

8, 16, 12, 23, 12, 14. Point buy and we were allowed to go over 18. Gestalt campaign that went up to level 9, though my character was the only one to die and be reincarnated once.

[Ernir]

Using 4d6b3? PB 72 (17 17 17 17 16 16).

Using the cheats one of my DMs allows? 18 18 18 18 16 15 (PB 82), if I recall correctly. Mostly to point out that he might as well save us some time and allow us to decide the stats freely.
(Rule 1. You throw your dice one at a time. If you hit a die you threw previously, causing the number displayed to change, the new number counts.
Rule 2. We are allowed to reroll our stats as often as we like. The only restriction is that if we decide to reroll, we must discard the entire set.)

[PersonMan]

My highest was 52 or 54, in a PBP where the other option was 28 points.

My friend's brother rolls two kinds of arrays: horribly bad (ie 9,9,9,5,6,8) or absurdly good(18,16,16,16,14,12), I think the highest he got was something like 90 points.

[Mystic Muse]

55 points.

17,17,15,15,15,13

it's been useful I must say.

[Curmudgeon]

If I'm rolling, I'm ignoring point buy, so I have no way of answering your question. However, it's been a long time (pre-3.5 D&D) since I rolled up a character rather than used point buy.

[RandomLunatic]

TTBMK, my best set on 4d6b3 was 18, 18, 17, 17, 16, 13-73 PB. Granted, this was "Roll 3 sets of stats, take the best one".

[Vangor]

I have never rolled beyond a 16 to stat my character out, and usually I get a bunch of 12s and 13s in there. I always just prefer 28 point buys to potential rolls, simply because I hate not having my character completed (except for health) before we get together seeing as I always need to help everyone set up.

[AmberVael]

On the first character I ever played, I think my rolls were:

18, 18, 18, 16, 12, 3

That three made things interesting.

[Sindri]

I once honestly rolled six 18s, using 3d6 for each. Then the GM killed the character with grudge monsters because they thought I was a cheating bastard. My next character? 3 3s, 2 4s, and a 6.

[Killer Angel]

I'd just say that guy was using loaded dice.

...and at that point, the DM said: OK, today let's play GURPS!

[mikej]

I rolled my next ( current ) Druid with 11/15/18/14/18/17.

Going to like playing that character when I get the chance.

[Superglucose]

I like rolling over point buy because while it doesn't grant you as many 18s, it generally generates more well-rounded characters. I hate the discontinuity between fluff and crunch in terms of ability scores, and playing 8str, 8wis, 8cha wizards gets old after a while. Why can't I be playing a wizard who's strong and cute as well as smart?

Just a personal opinion though. For one-shots I'd rather use point buy.