Re: Best Random Character Generation game?
Villains and Vigilantes is awesome for this, the attribute-thing notwithstanding. The rush of trying to pull those nearly completely random powers together into a coherent superhero is honestly amazing -- they really hit an almost perfect balance of creative constraint.
...So much so, I'm afraid, that for many V&V players, the act of character creation totally eclipses actually playing.
RoleMaster, I recall, had mazes of charts to follow for character creation. Maybe not as exciting as Traveller, but you could certainly break a game right there. (I only ever played it once, and we only got as far as character generation -- but that was a lot because we had one character with 6 hit points, and one with 112, and I think we all knew then that this was not going to work. ...Actually, to be totally honest, as the one who ended up with 112, I thought it was going great, but I'm pretty sure everybody else felt a bit eclipsed. I think the second highest was in the low 20s.)
I remember... what was it. Dark Heresy, I think? It's been a while, but as I remember it, you made choices and then rolled dice to determine what effect that choice had, and that led you to another set of options... it was like a short Tunnels & Trolls solo right before the game. That was kind of cool. Just not.. quite cool enough for me to be sure I'm remembering the system right.