| Rhodebot |
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As someone who lives with all my players barring one, and who uses RPG gaming as a fun way to hang out, I love rolling. I come in with a personality concept, roll the dice, and place them in. As a player, the randomness of the dice help determine some basic quirks of the character; as a GM, I trust my players to not abuse the fact that I let them roll (and they generally don't).
Point buy to me just feels too formulaic. I understand that it makes things more balanced, but it also removes the spontaneity of the random die rolls. One of my players rolled a 4 and went with it, and now we have a really dumb Skittermander Soldier. Sure sure you could just completely dump a stat for fun with point buy, but why would you when there's just an "optimal" way to buy your stats?