Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27614308-20160117232300/@comment-4715955-20160127005815

Well, however you make your characters, someone will probably be the most powerful member of the party.

And that's okay. You'd get the same situation in a real life party, most likely. If anything, it encourages the other players to make their characters unique and indispensible.

Where it becomes a problem is when a player always makes an overpowered Mary-Sue character that steamrolls everything in its path, and he/she won't settle for anything less. Or when players obsess over their stats and refuse to play a flawed character -- i.e. "any stat less than 15 is crap" -- and as a result everyone is the same and boring. If I knew modern systems weren't designed for blandly balanced parties, I'd always be pushing for "roll for each stat, and keep whatever you roll". Granted, if the character is useless, then yeah, chuck it and try again. But still, I don't think imbalance is necessarily a bad thing. Boring characters are a bad thing.