Red Flags for DMs?

[Arbane]

Back in my day, we rolled 3d6, in order, and we liked it.

back in the day, new characters took about 5 minutes to make, and about half that to die instantly to some 'screw-you' trap or monster.

Bad experiences, mostly. I've come to equate PB with DMs who encourage rollplaying over roleplaying, and mostly DMs who assume characters have no inherent weak spots or talents.

So, you're saying that the people who have actual character ideas they'd rather not leave up to random die-rolls are the rollplayers, and the ones who will use randomness (and attrition) until they get what they want are the Real Roleplayers?

In fact, my favorite DM has always gone with "4d6b3 assign" OR "5d6b3 in order", at the player's individual choice.

So, you take the randomness out of the random rolls.....