Blackwarder
Adventurer
I'd think they'd want a larger baseline of what works/doesn't work from pregens before releasing the char gen rules.
Going from a little over 1000 (I believe the friends/family playtest is about here in number) people to 10000+ (exaggerated or not, I don't know) people even with Pregens will be alot of feedback to look over and evaluate. If all goes well, and no great surprises are found, then the footing is solid, they then have a great base level to compare newer options to in how things work.
Looking forward to playtesting this out.
I don't think that the number is exaggerated, many folks who spend time on forums or online discussing the game got a bunch of other folks behind them that don't.
I know that I got nearly a dozen test dum... Errr I mean players to run playtests with.
Warder