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<blockquote data-quote="GMMichael" data-source="post: 8974615" data-attributes="member: 6685730">Gateway drugs?I appreciate pre-gens in starter sets.&nbsp; I appreciate them even more when the game's character creation is convoluted.&nbsp; Otherwise, starter sets aren't really fitting the bill here; if you present players with the possibility of character creation, a good percentage of them will demand it.&nbsp; The OP here is trying to avoid that.As above, I don't know that pre-gens work if custom-creation is an option.&nbsp; But it could be an interesting compromise.&nbsp; With a big disclaimer like,&quot;These five characters are the stars of the story.&nbsp; Any custom-made characters will be treated as supporting characters.&quot;That's a veiled threat...almost.&nbsp; It sort of hints at the main characters having plot armor, while others don't.But to add a little more context here, I could not have been more thrilled to play the different characters in Final Fantasy IV, as they were presented as pre-gens in Nintendo Power (don't judge).&nbsp; Countless games would go on to present more and more character customization, until I saw the wildly popular Witcher 3, in which you may play only Geralt, and I thought, &quot;yech.&nbsp; I don't want to play as him.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GMMichael, post: 8974615, member: 6685730"] Gateway drugs? I appreciate pre-gens in starter sets. I appreciate them even more when the game's character creation is convoluted. Otherwise, starter sets aren't really fitting the bill here; if you present players with the possibility of character creation, a good percentage of them will demand it. The OP here is trying to avoid that. As above, I don't know that pre-gens work if custom-creation is an option. But it could be an interesting compromise. With a big disclaimer like, "These five characters are the stars of the story. Any custom-made characters will be treated as supporting characters." That's a veiled threat...almost. It sort of hints at the main characters having plot armor, while others don't. But to add a little more context here, I could not have been more thrilled to play the different characters in Final Fantasy IV, as they were presented as pre-gens in Nintendo Power (don't judge). Countless games would go on to present more and more character customization, until I saw the [I]wildly popular[/I] Witcher 3, in which you may play only Geralt, and I thought, "yech. I don't want to play as [I]him[/I]." [/QUOTE]

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