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I come from a somewhat older tradition in tabletop RPGs, one where characters
aren’t so much "built" as they are "rolled".

Players often don’t know who exactly they’re going to be playing in a campaign, and rely on random rolls to determine a hero’s aptitudes and skills. Part of the pleasure of the game is throwing these new-rolled cyphers into play and exploring their personalities and motivations directly through the events of the adventures they undertake.

Yeah, I'm that old.

In most modern games, however, a player expects to be able to create exactly the kind of PC they’ve envisioned before the campaign begins. They don’t want to rely on random rolls to give them the character they’re going to be playing.

This is a perfectly valid preference, and players who want to have full control over creating their hero can normally do so with an attribute array and skills picked from a selected background. Even so, players without strong feelings on the matter might find it refreshing to let their hero’s past be discovered by the unpredictable chance of the dice.