Does God play dice with stellar masses?

A driving feature of galactic evolution is the fact that stars span a few critical masses, from small objects below the H-burning limit, to massive stars in which radiation pressure is significant.  In the middle of this range, it is especially notable that the typical star is comparable to, but smaller than, the heaviest possible white dwarf.  Is this an accident of fate, or a consequence of underlying physical laws?   I will examine this question in terms of the star formation process.  In the context of globular cluster formation, in particular, there is a good reason for the mass function to peak around the white dwarf limit.   The same conditions can enhance the production of massive stars, which may help to explain the puzzle of enriched stellar populations within massive globular clusters.