Board Thread:Midian Ideas/@comment-4701109-20150103214101/@comment-24302820-20150107042146

To riff off of BloodyBulldawg's idea, we could do lifepaths. The difference would be that these would focus more on the character's life after the 'start' rather than before. Traveller used this, and may be closest to what I'm thinking. Other games with similar mechanics include Cyberpunk 2020 or Progress Quest, or the Central Casting series of books. There's even one for D&D.

Depending on how this is handled, it can even be a useful story generator for in-play use, or maybe even a sort-of GM replacement.