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Originally Posted by Atgxtg
A ransom method give you a lot more variety in the characters, but might give you a result that a player (or GM) doesn't like. While there has been a lot of comment about inferior/useless characters, what hasn't been mentioned much is the possibility of rolling a character who is superior to the existing group. Roll high stats, and get 12 years of experience, and end up with a character with 90% weapon skills.
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Its a potential problem, but it usually requires a larger number of optimal rolls to come up, and doesn't produce some of the downsides of the inverse; the character will start out better than the rest of the party, but unless he's better in everything, they still have something to do while they close the gap. The superior rolled character tends to be more of a problem for the GM than the players.
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Come to think of it, the old Yelmalio gift that gave a 90% spear skill could completely disrupt a GM who wanted "balanced" characters. If Rurik leave the farm and gets that during character creation, he probably just "leapfrogged" the rest of the group.
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Well, that's an issue with Glorantha, to tell the truth; there are a number of cults that just have dramatically overpowered features compared to others. Fortunately that's solved by simply not playing in Glorantha, heretical as that is to some RQ fans.