FWIW, I asked the Skill Monkey what he thought given the points raised here and in the comments on the initial article.

All he wanted to know was if people would have fun playing them.

P.S. He does like the discussion though.

Then why are you being so critical of some pre-gens some random guy on the internet made?

The article was made in a public forum, so it gets public critique. It's not a difficult concept. That site contains a lot of articles geared towards helping people play their games. I just didn't think their advice was all that sound, in general.

But as people have argued already in this thread, there are plenty of reasons to do it differently. I agree with this, there are lots of valid reasons to do so, especially for people who already know what they're doing. I think people are painting a far more extremist view of my position than the one I actually have.

And before you mention me being rude, let's all acknowledge that you specifically changed the title of your thread to be provocative and condescending.

I did not "change" the title, it's how it always was. Suggesting I changed it is disingenuous. It was provocative, certainly, I'm not sure what the crime is there...

Yup, I like this discussion, and provocative thread titles are the way to go if you're hoping to generate a lot of replies

You know what these forums need?

A thread to crap on how someone else built characters posted online.

Oh, check it out.

Oh, you mean like you do in the Hutt topic?