I'm curious to know what ability generation approaches people have as options other than point buy or just random generation?
I'm not entirely sold on either approach, point buy has the drawback that it's easy to get into stereotyped score distributions as well as favouring single attribute classes over multi-attribute classes.
Rolling for stats has the huge drawback that you can have 2 characters in the same class where 1 of them is just completely better than the other. (Back in very early days of Earthdawn I rolled a character with 18, 18, 18, 17, 16, 12 back in 1st ed AD&D days I rolled a character who had 3 scores below 5 so didn't qualify for any class)
Do people have any other suggestions?