Character Generation methods.

[Telonius]

Unless I'm going for something gritty, I like the party to have some pretty heroic stats. Generally I give each player one free 18. For each of the other stats: 4d6, reroll any ones once, drop the lowest. If the modifiers (discounting the 18) add up to less than +3, reroll. If the dice are feeling truly vengeful against a particular player, they can take an array instead.

If I were going to use point buy, I'd probably have different buys for each base class (chosen for class tier and general MAD-ness).