I'd love it if, when choosing the "Random" option in the Character Builder, there were also options to either individually choose aspects such as spells, equipment, personality traits (ideals, bonds, flaws, etc.), alignment, and lifestyle or just to leave them up to the randomization process. Is there any chance the randomization of all character aspects (save for the ones in the Notes section, like Backstory, and some aspects of appearance like Hair, Eyes, and Skin that kind of require human input) will eventually be integrated in the "Random" feature? I'd love to just be able to hit the button and pop out with a completely random character to play, but I recognize that plenty of people would like to have the ability to have a lesser degree of randomness when using this feature, so I'm thinking adding the missing character aspects to the options screen that shows up when you hit "Random" right now would appease as many people as possible. As it stands, it just feels a little bit to me like the "Random" option just spits out a half-finished character.
Furthermore, the Randomize feature for character names is a bit weird. I know it's clearly possible to get a character with a random first and last name (I don't know if there are possibilities for more names than two), but onlyif you select the "Random" option from the very beginning of the Character Builder. If you click the Randomize feature next to the character name after that point, it always spits out a single name. I recognize they're from respective Fantasy Name Generator racial names (at least for non-homebrew content), but clearly that site can create full names for characters, since the straight-up "full" Random option of character creation can generate them; couldn't the later Randomize feature next to the Character Name field in other Character Builder modes pull from all the names generated in an instance for each race, rather than only the single first names from that instance?
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I'd love it if, when choosing the "Random" option in the Character Builder, there were also options to either individually choose aspects such as spells, equipment, personality traits (ideals, bonds, flaws, etc.), alignment, and lifestyle or just to leave them up to the randomization process. Is there any chance the randomization of all character aspects (save for the ones in the Notes section, like Backstory, and some aspects of appearance like Hair, Eyes, and Skin that kind of require human input) will eventually be integrated in the "Random" feature? I'd love to just be able to hit the button and pop out with a completely random character to play, but I recognize that plenty of people would like to have the ability to have a lesser degree of randomness when using this feature, so I'm thinking adding the missing character aspects to the options screen that shows up when you hit "Random" right now would appease as many people as possible. As it stands, it just feels a little bit to me like the "Random" option just spits out a half-finished character.
Furthermore, the Randomize feature for character names is a bit weird. I know it's clearly possible to get a character with a random first and last name (I don't know if there are possibilities for more names than two), but only if you select the "Random" option from the very beginning of the Character Builder. If you click the Randomize feature next to the character name after that point, it always spits out a single name. I recognize they're from respective Fantasy Name Generator racial names (at least for non-homebrew content), but clearly that site can create full names for characters, since the straight-up "full" Random option of character creation can generate them; couldn't the later Randomize feature next to the Character Name field in other Character Builder modes pull from all the names generated in an instance for each race, rather than only the single first names from that instance?