Bill Zebub
“It’s probably Matt Mercer’s fault.”
I think it is a little much to suggest that Shadowdark just doesn't work right if you let people choose their stats and determine what they want to play. That is just demonstrably not true. For cons, I randomly rolled a bunch of pregens using shadowdarklings.net, and then let the players choose from among those pregens. it worked fine over the course of a 4 session con-campaign. i let the players in my home game roll Dragonbane style. it worked fine for the course of a campaign. Players don't suddenly forget how to "player skill" because they got to choose their class.
I agree. Did somebody suggest otherwise?