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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thorkull" data-source="post: 321417" data-attributes="member: 6825">Random name generation is neat, but I have yet to run into a game that does it well -- it really needs to be culture specific... anyway, not really the topic.If you look at the DMG, the characters generated by the random NPC system do tend to look a lot alike -- in fact, they're usually duplicates.  I believe that's because the intent is to provide DMs with a baseline, not a fully fleshed-out NPC.  Alternately, when the DM needs "generic fighter #3" he can pull one out fairly quickly with these tables.Anything more requires quite a bit more effort, and wouldn't be handled quickly or easily in a paper product.  A software product is a different story, but since Fluid only has the license for translating the core books into a character builder at this point, and they were over budget and behind schedule thanks to snafus that have been elaborately discussed elsewhere, I really can't fault them for not including a complete random NPC generator.  Of course, I haven't actually seen the E-Tools software yet (still trying to decide whether it's worth the $30), so they may have a fully random yet rules-compliant character generator in the package.</blockquote>