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Character generator or assistant

Looked and couldn't find any.

Killer is the overly complex skill cascade and cluster system in TNE which would necessitate way too many multi-nested picklists to be practical.

TNE chargen looks great but the constant flipping of pages required sucks all the fun out of it.
 
I am there with you Alte. I like the simplified skill list over that of CT or MT but the cascade aspect of the skills made me wish for some sort of program. Wish I had the skill (computer-6 or above) to make a good program to assist with the char gen.
 
If you use software you could un-wrap all the clusters since they are mostly there to keep the page count low, arriving at one picklist per attribute.

Arrange those on a Tab-Pane with the character base data above.

I also recommend using a data base for storing the lists, MS-Access should do the trick nicely.

Programming language could be Visual Basic (or the Excel-Integrated variant) for an MS-only system. Works with JAVA also.

Or one might try AJAX and a PHP application.
 
Back in the day a hypercard stack would have done the trick or if using a mac an applescript routine running appleworks spreadsheet and database.

Javascript has possibilities, I've seen an excellent MT generator using Javascript which handles the MT cascades admirably.
 
Here it is

If you can take an archive of it you can use it offline.

The designer seems out of contact and digging into his site produces little else in the way of info.

<edit. to remove code ripping suggestion>
 
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