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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9642883" data-attributes="member: 18">Personally, I don't really have a process. I just usually immediately have an idea about what kind of character I'd like to play, and this has consistently been the case since I even heard about D&amp;D, let alone played it. What that exact idea is will change based on the the RPG, the setting, and so on, of course.The main I time I deviate from just playing what immediately occurs to me is in class-based RPGs where you kind of want a balanced party. In those situations I tend towards playing Leader or Support classes (kind of the same thing), unless people already have those covered.I loathe systems with highly random character generation because my experience is you end up with things that doesn't at all match what I was actually interested in playing, and having played plenty of them over the years, I can safely say this isn't going to change. Playing a random class has never, ever been more or even as fun as playing a class I picked.I have met players who claimed to want that &quot;clarity of purpose&quot;. They then consistently picked high-to-medium complexity non-spellcasters (or even light spellcasters like 5E Paladin), rather than the actual most-straightforward classes. Which, like, good for them, but it kind of convinced me that you don't need to go terribly simple, design-wise, to please them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9642883, member: 18"] Personally, I don't really have a process. I just usually immediately have an idea about what kind of character I'd like to play, and this has consistently been the case since I even heard about D&D, let alone played it. What that exact idea is will change based on the the RPG, the setting, and so on, of course. The main I time I deviate from just playing what immediately occurs to me is in class-based RPGs where you kind of want a balanced party. In those situations I tend towards playing Leader or Support classes (kind of the same thing), unless people already have those covered. I loathe systems with highly random character generation because my experience is you end up with things that doesn't at all match what I was actually interested in playing, and having played plenty of them over the years, I can safely say this isn't going to change. Playing a random class has never, ever been more or even as fun as playing a class I picked. I have met players who claimed to want that "clarity of purpose". They then consistently picked high-to-medium complexity non-spellcasters (or even light spellcasters like 5E Paladin), rather than the actual most-straightforward classes. Which, like, good for them, but it kind of convinced me that you don't need to go terribly simple, design-wise, to please them. [/QUOTE]

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