>>3778499
>Then say you have a problem with as a mechanic
In PnP you don't sit an re-roll stats for 15 minutes until you get crazy high stats.
If you can get a higher total pool of stat points, people will just sit and re-roll until they get a high number, which means you're wasting people's time, intentionally inflating their scores so their choice of stat distrubution becomes less meaningful and thoughtful.

You might've had a point if you were talking about someone getting the option to just randomly distribute the same fixed pool of points, but that that point you might as well just go with pre-mades which these types of games have anyway for people that don't want to build their own characters or play as something different without making it.
This isn't even accounting for how vastly different a PnP and videogame is played and function.

Dice are a crutch for PnP games, not some brilliant form of design. You use dice for shitty boardgames like Snakes & Ladders because physical board games and PnP has limitations.