Pre-gen PCs and Ready to Play Adventures

[Simon Collins]

Life has just become too busy for game prep. The other night I simply ran out of time to prep my regular d20 campaign but discovered an old module I had downloaded for fun - The Warlock of Firetop Mountain by Myriador/Greywood. I read through it once, printed out the pre-gen PCs and ran the game the following night. It was great fun, an old-style makes-little-ecological-sense dungeon bash and my players enjoyed it. In fact, they said they preferred not to create their own PCs!

So I have decided to stop doing so much game prep, ditch my long-running campaign for a while and start running ready to play adventures with pre-gen PCs. However, looking through my extensive library of adventures, I noticed that hardly any of them have pre-generated PCs. So I went searching on the 'Interweb' for pre-generated PCs from levels 1 to 20 and found nothing of use.

I need some help. What I am looking for is the following:
1. A website that has free pre-generated PCs of all the d20 standard classes (3.0/3.5) from levels 1 to 20 so that I can use these for all the d20 adventures I already have. Preferably printable on cool A4 character sheets!!
2. Free programs that will auto-generate the same as above.
3. Ready-to-play d20 adventures with pre-generated PCs (I'm already aware of the Myriador Fighting Fantasy line).

Any suggestions gratefully received.

 

[Gilladian]

I use the following sites:
d20 NPC Wiki
Birched's NPC Generator at Hailscape.com
Javascript D&D 3.5 Character Generator

None of them are EXACTLY what you're asking for, but they're all useful.

I also have a TON of mid-high level NPCs that are in PCgen and PDF format. I presume I got them from the PCgen site, tho I'm not certain of that.

 

[Simon Collins]

Thanks for the reply Gilladian.
I have checked out all the sites in detail. They're pretty good for NPCs OK, and a good saving on doing the maths for high-level characters, but they're not able to provide me the cool character sheet look I was after or any PC-relevant roleplaying/background info.

 

[Dandu]

Quite frankly WotC pre-generated characters are crap, and fan made pre-generate characters are hit or miss.

I'd be willing to help you create characters but I don't know of any good site for decent pre-made characters.

 

[Mark CMG]

CMG's eConic line includes two products created to save time. In the index is a monetary amount column noting the difference between their NPC gear value and what it wouldtake to bring them to a PC gear level. When I use these as pregens for one-shots, I let the player choose from a number of kits valued at the difference in gp or just let them choose something from the DMG (with approval, of course). These use sheets from The More Better Indespensible Character Formfolio.


1 -20 human fighter NPC - (Aid) The eConic Human Fighter - Creative Mountain Games | RPGNow.com

1 -20 halfling rogue NPC - (Aid) The eConic Halfling Rogue - Creative Mountain Games | RPGNow.com

Formfolio - http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=20819

 

[supermansdead]

How about logging on to any one of the numerous D&D sites and browsing player-made character sheets at random? Several allow sheets to be made public, and you can't find sheets more intricate than ones people craft =) I don't know if they're searchable by level though...

 

[Simon Collins]

Quite frankly WotC pre-generated characters are crap, and fan made pre-generate characters are hit or miss.

I'd be willing to help you create characters but I don't know of any good site for decent pre-made characters.

Thanks for the offer but that would be a ridiculous amount of work to do, I couldn't ask that of you - but much appreciated.

 

[Simon Collins]

CMG's eConic line includes two products created to save time. In the index is a monetary amount column noting the difference between their NPC gear value and what it wouldtake to bring them to a PC gear level. When I use these as pregens for one-shots, I let the player choose from a number of kits valued at the difference in gp or just let them choose something from the DMG (with approval, of course). These use sheets from The More Better Indespensible Character Formfolio.


1 -20 human fighter NPC - (Aid) The eConic Human Fighter - Creative Mountain Games | RPGNow.com

1 -20 halfling rogue NPC - (Aid) The eConic Halfling Rogue - Creative Mountain Games | RPGNow.com

Formfolio - (Aid) The More Better Indispensable Character Formfolio - Creative Mountain Games | RPGNow.com

Thanks for that, Mark. It's very hard to search on RPG Now, I find. I did several searches for pre-gen PCs using various keywords but your eConic line didn't come up on any of them. Even googling didn't pull them up.

I've put them on my wish list for next payday (times are tough!!). Not sure if they are exactly what I'm looking for but do sound closer than anything else I've found. Will check them out anyway.

 

[Simon Collins]

How about logging on to any one of the numerous D&D sites and browsing player-made character sheets at random? Several allow sheets to be made public, and you can't find sheets more intricate than ones people craft =) I don't know if they're searchable by level though...

As you might have noticed from my first post, time is short!
Any chance you could link a couple of those sites?

 

[Alexander123]

Here are a few links which might be useful:

This one is one of my favorite powergaming links:

Team Solars (Archiving) - Giant in the Playground Forums

Here you will find a number of handbooks to help you create characters:

Handbooks