Rotten pregenerated PC's at WotC

[Elder-Basilisk]

I'm all for being willing to play characters with suboptimal stats, but that paladin couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag while wearing armor spikes.

10 strength!?! A decent FIRST LEVEL rogue will attack better and deal more damage than him. [Take the 16 wisdom and put it in strength and place the 10 in wisdom and he'll look a LOT better].

Run!?! Toughness!?! If I were designing a character to suck, I couldn't do a better job without multi-classing.

The character's stats would make a pretty decent cleric. Too bad he's pretending to be a paladin.

 

[Endur]

The Changeling Rogue is the same level as the other characters and has awesome stats.

Str 12, Dex 17, Con 13, Int 18, Wis 15, Cha 11.

I really don't know what the people who were creating these characters were thinking.

They are not balanced at all.

And some of the characters are missing feats and other things they should have.

And some of the characters are just plain strange. Like the 3rd level Monk who spent two of his feats on Longsword.

 

[ecliptic]

They were obviously rolled.

 

[der_kluge]

I think I'd play this character as retarded. I mean, a 6 int? I'd argue that Forrest Gump had at least a 7 Int.

I played a female paladin with a 7 int one time. She was as air-headed as they came. It was fun, but the campaign didn't last terribly long. I think one of my favorite quotes from that character was something like, "we need to go into town to get supplies, and stuff." Heh.

 

[Skarp Hedin]

* How does one do an umlaut here without torturing the system?

I've always found it works best to use the ASCII codes for diacritical marks. Thus:

über

the ü comes from ALT-0252. You can look up the ASCII codes in the character map, found in Accessories/System Tools.

 

[Glyfair]

At 3rd level hes got 23 HP from 3d10+9. That means he averaged 2 HP per level for 2nd & 3rd levels, assuming they went by the book and he started at max for first. (1st = 10 (+2 con) + 2nd = y (+2 Con) + 3rd = x (+2 Con + 3 Toughness) = 19 + x + y = 23. Yuk, now I know you cna have some bad rolls, but thats scary.

Yeah, this is what I noticed first. Based on the comments about the other characters, my guess is this actually wasn't intentional. It really seems like they rolled up characters, placed the stats, and made players play them regardless of the stats.

Really, if you are putting together a pregen character, you don't deliberately sabotage them by giving them minimum hit points, especially when they are a combat oriented class.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

Now, I like to think I'm not a total power gamer but as some one mentioned earlier I dont see how this guy made it to 3rd level.

I guess that's what the Run feat is for!

 

[VirgilCaine]

Torches? When you can afford an everburning torch? Please. 16 Wis and he doesn't even HAVE spells?

Why full plate? Is one point of armor bonus THAT important?

No holy water/acid/achemists fire?

And someone was PAID to make these characters? I could make a better character in my sleep!

 

[Gez]

* How does one do an umlaut here without torturing the system?

Ü: Alt+0220
ü: Alt+0252

Of course, on my French keyboard, I don't have to bother memorizing these numbers, I can just use the "deadkey" ¨ with u and get a ü.

If you don't have handy-dandy deadkeys, here's my word of advice for Windows users: Inside %SystemRoot%\System32\ is a file named charmap.exe. Open a file explorer window in %SystemRoot%\System32\, right-click-drag charmap.exe to your QuickLaunch bar or to Start Menu->Programs->Accessories, and when you release the mouse button, choose "Create Shortcut Here". (Rename the shortcut so it's called Character Map, optionally.)

Then, whenever you need a weird character such as Æ or Ñ or © or Œ or Ŧ or Ə or Ợ (yes, I am enjoying this too much), fire up Charmap and choose your weird character.☺☻☺☻♫♪
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[Mark]

And someone was PAID to make these characters?

I don't think Wiz-os are paid, though I might be wrong. I'm sure they must receive some form of compensation, but I don't know what. It'd be interesting to take all of the pre-gens they have and rework them as a more viable party and see if they'd switch to using them instead. I doubt it would take a lot of work to do it in a thread like this with all of the helpful folks who are already stepping up to point out the places where they could use tweeking.