Semi - randomly generated characters. Not entirely randomly generated that would be insane and wouldn't work. But...you ever remember back in the day, with TTRPG's randomly generating characters and that thrill of having to make your beggar from Nadsokor or whatever, work...not just in the group but to work out a way to have fun with this random character as well? Meeting that challenge and enjoying the need for creative thinking?
That is unsurprisingly not a popular approach for people (because why would it be?). It's cousin 'let's have game stats for characters we're having fuck' does appear more popular but, again - understandably not very popular.
Just made myself sound very, very weird.