DND_Reborn
The High Aldwin
In games d20-style games, I've seen point-buy used about 50/50 with rolling. I prefer point-buy myself just because you won't have "lucky" PCs who can overshadow ones with lower rolls, which can especially happen at lower levels.You're absolutely correct. Even so, I've never run a game where everyone was ok with point buy or the standard array, so rolling is what we get. Maybe I can get away with point buy in a non D&D game where it's not a listed option, but to my players, rolling stats is a sacred cow of the game. I'm sure if we play Level Up it will be the same.
For example, in our main campaign (which started nearly two years ago), one player rolled 19, 16, 18, 13, 13, 13 or something like that after racial bonuses, while another player had 10, 10, 15, 12, 13, 16 after modifiers. That is a huge difference in points--just because of luck. shrug