A long time ago I use to love the old way to just roll your stats down the line. Like my grandfather would say "That's how we did and it was fine and we were happy."
But as I have grown older I have learned to love point buy even more.
Now I'm starting to prep a one-shot Legend game so I need to make some pre-gens and I start to use the point buy "80 points". This number is utilized in RQII, Legend, and RQ6.
Where did this number "80" come from?
I noticed the majority of human npc stat blocks are over 80, I think 1 or 2 over 90 points, but mostly in the 87-90 range.
So why 80?
I realize it's my prerogative to build whatever I want, but I was just wondering if anyone knew the reason behind this.