There was a "random PC generation" thread here on the boards maybe a year or two ago that I thought was really cool and allowed me to create what ended up being a very interesting character for myself... which was to randomly roll to get a 1st level spell of some type. Then based on that spell, create a PC designed around it. I ended up with Create or Destroy Water, and the ideas that came out of that random reception were fast and interesting. It was a cool variant on the standard "create a PC via randomness" concept we usually see.