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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 2881280" data-attributes="member: 32740"><p>Clearly they are not universally needed or desired. But NO plausible character could come from them? Perhaps you failed to note that it is a RANDOM generator and is not intended to <em>dictate</em> a background but to rather serve more as a source of inspiration.</p><p></p><p>That said, this is why they could stand to be REDONE. The originals suffered from insufficient details/options and thus the rather interesting habit of creating characters that weren't merely interesting but instead were hopelessly over-the-top. You know, heir to the kingdom, son of a deity, born in poverty in another kingdom altogether, with two special pets, blessed by a fairy, cursed by a witch, and born in a travelling brothel on a night that signalled the apocalypse occurring the next day though living long enough to spend 5 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit as well as an 8-year hitch in the military. - Again however, this was only possible if you simply took it all absolutely literally rather than using as a <em>tool</em> to assist you in creating a background.</p><p>HoT in particular seemed to simply have random generation that repeatedly created some real horrors. It needed a revised version - or at least a greater willingness to ignore/reroll results.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 2881280, member: 32740"] Clearly they are not universally needed or desired. But NO plausible character could come from them? Perhaps you failed to note that it is a RANDOM generator and is not intended to [I]dictate[/I] a background but to rather serve more as a source of inspiration. That said, this is why they could stand to be REDONE. The originals suffered from insufficient details/options and thus the rather interesting habit of creating characters that weren't merely interesting but instead were hopelessly over-the-top. You know, heir to the kingdom, son of a deity, born in poverty in another kingdom altogether, with two special pets, blessed by a fairy, cursed by a witch, and born in a travelling brothel on a night that signalled the apocalypse occurring the next day though living long enough to spend 5 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit as well as an 8-year hitch in the military. - Again however, this was only possible if you simply took it all absolutely literally rather than using as a [I]tool[/I] to assist you in creating a background. HoT in particular seemed to simply have random generation that repeatedly created some real horrors. It needed a revised version - or at least a greater willingness to ignore/reroll results. [/QUOTE]
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