#281 Bias the new character point buy to target a specific level of stats

[DraugTheWhopper]

We should assume some "normal" level of stats. This brings two benefits:

• For balancing, we have a starter value that should be reasonably close to a player's stats
• Lower stats mean the player is less likely to hit the hard cap.

Here's a proposal:

1. Start the point buy at 15 on each stat, with no free points.
2. Apply any racial and class changes. Racial modifiers should have a net change of zero; same for class.
3. Give/take a couple free points for special cases like monk, fireborn, etc.
4. Reducing a stat gives one point, but increasing a stat costs two points
5. Raising a stat by more than 5 costs three points.

I know it's a little more complicated, but a system like this would definitely help establish a baseline for balancing changes that depend on stats. In particular, it prevents you from being able to easily "min/max" things like Str or Int, and if you really want to push them higher, you have to make big sacrifices. It also makes race and class much more important, since they let you bias your stats without the 2x penalty from point buying.

I think this would also need to be coupled with eliminating or reworking stat potions (just make them temporary?), otherwise stats can still creep really high.