Hopeless Characters, are NOT Hopeless...
Can a character with bad stats still matter in D&D?
In this episode, I talk about “Hopeless Characters” in old school D&D, using the Holmes Basic blurb and AD&D as the starting point. Bad ability scores do not always mean a bad character. Sometimes the weak fighter, the fragile magic-user, or the average nobody becomes the one everyone remembers.
This is about 3d6 character creation, survival, risk, and why old school D&D did not need every character to start as a hero.
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Balance is bullshit.
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But yeah, I saw this truly awful short on YouTube about a player complaining he didn't have a magic sword at level 3.
That he had to run away.
That they had to come up with a plan.
That he didn't feel completely equally useful to all other players at all times.
Dude you just player your first real session!
Imbalance creates opportunities the same way randomness does.
Presto the magician in the 80s DnD cartoon was absolutely a hopeless character, and when he 'saved the day' in one of the episodes- it made it that much more satisfying!