Found it, it's actiually about half "manual entry" and the the other half even split between array and point buy, across 23 million active characters.
www.belloflostsouls.net
Times change, though. In 3e and before rolling was THE default method. I don't know about 4e, but it says a lot about arrays that the array was included as a default method. A whole lot of new players have entered the D&D pool and neither of us really have a grasp of which way they prefer. We and our groups have used rolling as the primary method for decades, but that doesn't mean that the masses new folk haven't cased arrays to eclipse rolling. We just don't know.
An online character generator, even a very big one, isn't going to be any more representative of how players in general generate ability scores than EN World is. The vast majority of people aren't playing online.Found it, it's actiually about half "manual entry" and the the other half even split between array and point buy, across 23 million active characters.
View attachment 267773
D&D: Is Rolling For Stats A Thing Of The Past? - Here's How Everyone Does Chargen
Rolling for stats seems to be phasing out. According to the latest data more than half of D&D players turn to nonrandom methods for generating attributes.
"representative," maybe or maybe not. 23 million data points at least is more telling that there is a variety of methods in play, more than any of our limited pool samples.
None of the groups I play with have used an array or point buy, ever. We always roll.
But you have described your games, and it's clear they are pretty retro. Nothing wrong with that, but is not exactly a representative sample.
But we don't have a representative sample. At all. I'm not convinced we can ever have one.
So the biggest single category is what "rolling" is a part of, but the majority of people definitely don't use rolling, at least not on D&D Beyond's character generator.Found it, it's actiually about half "manual entry" and the the other half even split between array and point buy, across 23 million active characters.
View attachment 267773
D&D: Is Rolling For Stats A Thing Of The Past? - Here's How Everyone Does Chargen
Rolling for stats seems to be phasing out. According to the latest data more than half of D&D players turn to nonrandom methods for generating attributes.
There is no majority, is the takeaway. Rolling is the most common, though.
