Pregen characters.. How do YOU do them??

[garhkal]

For those of you who run events where you are using Pre-generated characters for what ever reason (lets say its a tournament module), how do you do them?

Do you write out everything, leaving nothing for the players to customize on it?
Do you do just the base stuff, giving the player a lot to customize?
Are you somewhere in the middle?
Like say you make up a 'former imperial officer', do you assign all his skill dice, or jsut some, so the player can 'add in the rest'? Do you give all the gear, or let them buy some??

How many do you make up? Say the event is for 4-6 players.. Do you just make 6 characters up?? More?

Do you give some notes on stuff on the sheet (such as say a quick rundown on what an item does/spell does)? Do you make that as a separate hand out or other 'token" (like for ADND, if the player has a potion, do you say make a 3x5 card for said potion he can hand in when it gets used up)??

What else do you do?
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