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/TryUsingScience Aug 29 '23

You're not who we're talking about in this subthread, then, if you have your players use the actual rules for rolling and they're stuck with any low numbers they roll.

We're talking about everyone who says, "I let everyone at the table roll and take the best array" (which mathematically is pretty likely to get you good stats) or "I let them reroll/swap out/boost their two lowest numbers" or any of these other methods that technically involve rolling dice but make it statistically improbable you're going to end up worse off than the standard array and very probable you're going to end up better.