There seems no better forum to post this, so here goes!
Character Generation and Unearthed Arcana AD+D V1.0+Unearthed Arcana's Introduction is dated May 1st 1985. It had a number of variations from the V1.0 rules and introduced some additional sub races, and character classes, including the Barbarian and Cavalier. It also made the Paladin, a cavalier sub-class which at the time was a good thing as it increased the Paladin's innate abilities, but is the slippery slope that leads us to anaemic thing it is today! It also added a bunch of spells for all spell casting classes, and introduced weapon specialisation.
One of the best features was the recognition that player's wanted to choose their class before they rolled the attributes. V1.0 involved rolling 3 D6 and taking the score for the attribute; originally, you declared the attribute before you rolled. Later, you could allocate the scores to the attribute you wanted so that you could ensure that your prefered class's prime attribute was reasonably high.
UA allowed, having chosen a desired class, the rolling of multiple die and the taking of the best three for each attribute varying the number of die by class and attribute.
So for a Fighter, one rolled as follows STR 9D6, INT 3D6, WIS 5D3, DEX 7D6, CON 8D6, CHA 6D6 & Comeliness 4D3, and used the best three rolls.
Comiless was an experiment, obviously not continued as it did not appear in the BG2 V2 rules.
I have reproduced the full table and posted it on the internet
here.... It is a .pdf file. I have also re-produced much of this post
here....
Interestingly
to me, the Bard at this time was an optional rule set and based on additional Bard levels after a restricted level fighter/thief dual. So it had no line in this table. I have considered making an ancient bard kit class, but its a long way down on my CRPG project list.
