D&D 5e: "Trial by Fire" Character Creation

On Facebook earlier I saw a type of character creation that sounded kind of interesting to me. The poster called it "Trial by Fire" and it goes as such:

* Roll 3d6 and drop the lowest for each Ability Score (so keep two of the dice | Min: 2, Average: 8.5, Max: 12)
* At every level up, add one to any Ability Score
* At every Ability Score Increase level for your class, take a feat rather than get the +2 to Ability Scores

I don't know how much fun it would really be, but I thought it might be cool to try out and wondered what your thoughts are on it.

Sounds fun as long as you actually get to level. Depending on the DM, you don't get to level often in PbP. I'd try it if you run it, Naatkinson! :-D

Would love to see how this plays out!

Hmm. Could certainly be interesting. It would also stand to prevent (if you stick with the raw) multiclassing in a lot of ways since people won't meet stat minimums for quite a few levels possibly.

Gosh, don't tempt me!

I had another thought about starting this at level 0 and then moving up from there:

Pick one of three level 0 classes:
Warrior (proficiency in weapons and armor, d8 hit die)
Expert (More skill proficiencies, d6 hit die)
Adept (A couple of cantrips from a chosen caster class, d6 hit die)

As a benefit, you'd perhaps get to keep the initial hit points on top of the HP you gain when you become a level one plus a small bonus based on which level zero class you picked.

Example: Expert moves up to level one, gets to have one extra skill proficiency. Adept gets to have an extra cantrip. Something like that.

I really like that idea!

So, I set up a game of this and invited Jabes, CancerMan, Len, and Drama :)

It will be public for those who may want to follow along!

It sounds like it would be fun. I would be interested if you would not mind a new player.