SAbel wrote:
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> Just a though for when people show up with out a diretion for a
> character or just to throw in something interesting. What if there was a
> random character generator with in the program.
Unfortunately this is a lot harder than it sounds. For example, let's
say we randomly generate the 6 ability scores, from 10 to 30, and come
up with 29/12/10/17/19/23. We've just randomly generated a character
with a very high strength... but no dexterity or constitution, and very
good mental ability scores.
Now we need to randomly generate some feats and powers, but some of them
will be very inappropriate for this character. A Mighty Strike power
would be good, but what are the chances of having that get picked
randomly? And he'd need some protection with that low constitution score...
Effectively, what we'd need is a set of "recipes" for characters, so you
could select (for example) "create a random bruiser character". It would
then select abilities (maybe strength from 25-30, dex from 15-20, con
from 20-25, low int/wis/cha, mighty strike power, etc). Except that most
of the characters it would create would be almost identical copies of
each other, apart from maybe one would have super-speed, and another
would have burrowing, and another would have flight.
These random characters wouldn't be very interesting, or indeed very
random, because they'd have to be pretty restricted to be effective at
all. What's better is if we supply a few pre-constructed "bruiser"
archetypes, and then for a random character, you can simply make some
minor changes to it. That way it'll fit in with your campaign better -
instead of having a random non-sequiter character, you could make
everyone the PCs fight have a specific set of powers to group them together.
That's why we haven't added a random character generator so far, anyway.
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Colen McAlister,
colen@wolflair.com
Chief Engineer, Lone Wolf Development