Character creation advice?

[PugPug]

Are well-rounded stats rewarded in and out of combat? Or are the DCs too high for that?

 

Do gender/race/subrace really matter when relating to NPCs?

I'm trying to minimize the number of times I will reroll until I get it just right. ;-) Thank you.

Edited March 27, 2015 by PugPug

[Voss]

I'm not finding any of that to be the case.   race/gender seems to get an eyebrow at most, and only rarely.*  

In combat, well rounded is punished.

Out of combat, they are one of 4-6 different options, so... no.  It feels like none of them matter. 

 

*the sheer number of godlike just hanging around the first village  (despite its... issues and the issues godlike supposedly raise) was staggering.  And you can't...really... interact with them either, so I'm not even clear why they're hanging around.  I suppose because they categorically can't contribute to the problem looming over the town.

[PugPug]

So it's definitely not worth it to, like, raise an attribute to 12 to get some additional dialogue options, then.

[AncientToaster]

I was also wondering this, if it's better to pump two skills and leave everything at 10 or drop those down and massively pump skills?

 

I have been building my characters with at least 1 or 2 points in every stat.

[PugPug]

I think I read something indicating stat checks in dialogue and skill checks are across the whole party, not just your hero. So you only need one character with a high score in each.