Originally Posted by
jqavins
My current favorite is a method that one of my DMs came up with. You take a sheet of college ruled paper (this was a long time ago) and roll straight 3d6 for a mid-power group or top-3-of-4 for a high power group, one attribute score on each line. (Now I use a computer to do the rolling; a spreadsheet or quicky BASIC program or some such.) Then you pick six attribute scores in a row from anywhere on the page. It lets you place a good roll in whatever attribute you want, but then you're stuck with those around it for the others. Want to play a fighter? There's probably a 17 or 18 somewhere on the page that you can use for strength, but you might be stuck with an 8 constitution. Or, you can settle for the 16 strength that's somewhere else on the page and goes along with a 14 constitution. Each page of scores is to be used only once then discarded.