Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
Not trying to convince you of anything. I'm asking you to be respectful of other people's preferences in your rhetoric. I often have an idea for my PC in OSR games, and if the dice let me play it, I do. If they don't, I play what I fancy from the options I get. I make a backstory, goals, and/or motivation for that PC as appropriate and if I feel like it. If they die, I let it go and do it again with a new PC. Most of the OSR players I know do the same. You're painting with a very broad brush and making assumptions about the players because that style doesn't match your preference. That's fine to like what you like of course, but you are muscharacterizing fans of that style in your method of writing here.What else can it be?
The play style advocated for isn't about creating a character with a backstory, goals or motivation. It's about rolling 3d6 and hoping you get lucky that THIS PC sticks. They might get a name if they make it to 3rd level, and might even develop a personality at 5th.
I don't like the OSR/DDC style of character generation by attrition. Never have, never will. And I'm glad the game has moved away from it, circa Dragonlance. But if you like it, play it. I don't find it superior in any way, shape or form and you cannot convince me otherwise.