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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8724907" data-attributes="member: 18">Definitely not.If it was open choice of a bunch of fully coherent and generally well-designed PCs, sure, I've done that loads of times. But that's not what you're suggesting, your description is of a very messy and confused process (you say you've run it like this before, but have you, actually, with this level of needless randomization, in 5E?).Maybe if just class/race were semi-randomized as you described. But randomizing alignment and personality traits is pointless and destructive, frankly, and never going to make for a fun game in my 30+ year experience - it just leaves about 30-60% of players frustrated, and those it doesn't are the ones who get least involved with their characters - background isn't great too, because backgrounds aren't intended to be picked from a set (this is a common but serious misapprehension), backgrounds are custom by default - the set ones are optional examples.I'm less concerned about the death stuff, because realistically once 1-2 PCs die the whole party will wipe soon thereafter unless the DM scales the challenge down (which seems unlikely in this scenario). Or you'll make it to levels where revives are possible.EDIT - Honestly the multiple layers of randomization are what makes this seem like a trash waste of time to me - if you had two fully-formed and coherent characters in the envelopes it would be vastly less obnoxious.EDIT EDIT - NM I misread some of this.</blockquote>

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