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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5919351" data-attributes="member: 22424">My big problem with pregen characters is that they tend to be very much sub-optimal, and become moreso as the game line expands. And so they quickly become useless, as those players with any system mastery insist on creating their own character, meaning that everyone else needs to do likewise (or get the GM to do it for them), or fall behind - even further behind than they already are due to their lack of system mastery!And if the pregens are, and remain, optimal, then that almost certainly means that any other options in the game are redundant.Not necessarily. Imagine, if you will, a system where you create your first level character by declaring &quot;Elf Ranger&quot;, and doing that automatically set everything else - all your skills get set to defaults, you get default equipment, and so on.Then, at 2nd level, in addition to a small in power (an addition feat, say), you also get the chance to reassign some of those default settings - so you can choose to drop some ranks in Heal to boost your Stealth instead, for example. And as you gain further levels, of course, you can make further reassignments.The net effect is really simply character creation, increasing specialisation as you go (and the ability to change direction later, if it becomes appropriate), without a massive increase in power (because you're always trading off one thing against another).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 5919351, member: 22424"] My big problem with pregen characters is that they tend to be very much sub-optimal, and become moreso as the game line expands. And so they quickly become useless, as those players with any system mastery insist on creating their own character, meaning that everyone else needs to do likewise (or get the GM to do it for them), or fall behind - even further behind than they [i]already[/i] are due to their lack of system mastery! And if the pregens are, and remain, optimal, then that almost certainly means that any other options in the game are redundant. Not necessarily. Imagine, if you will, a system where you create your first level character by declaring "Elf Ranger", and doing that automatically set [i]everything[/i] else - all your skills get set to defaults, you get default equipment, and so on. Then, at 2nd level, in addition to a [i]small[/i] in power (an addition feat, say), you [i]also[/i] get the chance to reassign some of those default settings - so you can choose to drop some ranks in Heal to boost your Stealth instead, for example. And as you gain further levels, of course, you can make further reassignments. The net effect is really simply character creation, increasing specialisation as you go (and the ability to change direction later, if it becomes appropriate), without a massive increase in power (because you're always trading off one thing against another). [/QUOTE]

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