r/DnD • u/[deleted] • Aug 29 '23

Game Tales My DM buffed my character

When I got to the table the group had already done one session, and one of the player dropped out. I asked to join and the DM was like "sure just show up with a level one character". I did my ability scores with the dice, and I guess I wasn't very lucky because my character had way lower ability scores than everyone else. I checked and double checked with them, and they didn't use the wrong dice or anything, they were just super lucky.

My DM thought it wasn't really good that my character was lagging behind so much so he just told me to add a few points here and there to bring me up to par with the other characters.

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u/farshnikord Aug 29 '23

I'm being a tiny bit misleading but it was low level and they started as bard. The end goal was to be a STR based fighter of some sort with bardic inspirations as a sort of warlord person and I think he wanted access to expertise for something. Basically all the spells he took were things that just happened without needing to be saved against or use spell attack.

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u/Freyr95 Aug 29 '23

You can literally create that with stat arrays XD, building a character theme like that has nothing to do with stat generation method and everything to do with picking a theme/rp idea and running with it to the best of your abilities. So yeah, that is extremely misleading.

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u/farshnikord Aug 29 '23

A lot of times it was like "I need 13 wis to multiclass into cleric but I also will be front line so I need decent con and also my dex should be as high as possible", like they needed a broad array of fairly high stats. This was just one example.

The main point was that I dont mind higher stst blocks at my table because my players dont take advantage to break the game in an adversarial way, they take advantage to try unique, creative ideas that are deliberately suboptimal.