Forked Thread: What game systems have character generators? (focus slightly changed)

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Originally Posted by Mustrum_Ridcully

I'd say Shadowrun and The Dark Eye also benefit a lot from character generators.

A Shadowrun character builder would help managing character generation points (if you use the system), money (that's even an issue if you the priority system of 3E) essence, bioindex, Ki Adept Powers, and it might be helpful for spell management or Karma management (Reputation, Total Karma, Karma Rolls - 4E might simplify this in some areas.)

Addendum:

There is a Character Generator for The Dark Eye.

Game system: The Dark Eye / Das Schwarze Auge, 4.Edition
Use: Free (GPL), downloadable, requires Java (6 recommended)
Producer: goneo Internet GmbH (???)
Link: TDE Character Generator

[Jadeite]

There's also Second Step for Earthdawn.

And compared to the Dark Eye, it's totally easy to create a character in 3rd Edition D&D (although even AD&D 1st and 2nd Edition had official character generators).

There's also Anathema for Exalted, as well as some older character generators for the same game (EdExalted and the unofficial exalted character generator).
Anathema: A Nascent Approach To Harmonic Exalted Management

Even Midgard, a rather unknown german fantasy RPG has some character generators, MAGuS for example (there were others before but MAGuS is the only one supporting the current 4th edition rules).
MAGuS - Midgard Abenteurer Generieren und Steigern

The old World of Darkness also had some character generators, one of them being an official one distributed with the 2nd edition Masquerade CD-ROM. But, as in the Worlds of Darkness, old and new, character creation is rather simple, those are mostly storyteller tools to manage NPCs.

[Nylanfs]

There are several generators for ShadowRun, starting from the earliest that I can remember in 1995.

Shadowrun 4 Edition Character Generator (SR4CG)
Daegann's Character Generator for SR4
Commlink Generator

You can find many listed here in the Dumpshock Community Projects forum

[IanArgent]

The "character" generator I wish I could have had was for Car Wars. I wrote up one in Quattro Pro, but never got it to work quite right.

I *did* get my Renegade Legions design sheets working, though. And of course there's Heavy Metal for Battletech.

[shocklee]

I wrote a character generator for Paranoia, got it officially approved, and distributed it for free many years ago.

Mark