All you elves look alike to me! (adopting the Dragon Age RPG into other rulesets)

[Dust]

And you could let your players allocate their stats however they like instead of rolling them in order, but it's not how the game is designed, and the randomness reflects the harshness of the world and the flat, painful truth that not all heroes are created equal.

Again, flexible really isn't the right word. Flexible suggests options above and beyond +1 to Score A or +1 to Score B, and which weapons you want to be able to use without eviscerating yourself accidentally.

You could drop the same thing into D&D by having players roll once for a bonus general or race-specific feat and once for a flaw.