Are you familiar with any published settings with premade PCs that are actually integrated into the world, with important positions?Legends of the Wulin is a 2014 wuxia RPG. It spends several pages detailing six premade PCs who are princes and princesses of major nations/factions: up-and-coming heroes (or villains) already embedded into webs of conflict and intrigue. These premade characters have descriptions and character sheets, but the book says that these can be rewritten to taste. If no player elects to play one of these characters, it is no problem at all, because the GM can simply run them as NPCs. (I played a customized version of one of these characters in my very first Legends of the Wulin game.)I find this idea very interesting. It instantly sets a tone for the kinds of important figures that PCs can start off as. A player strapped for time or inspiration can simply choose one of these established characters with established relationships, adjust the description and character sheet as desired, and start playing. And if nobody wants to play them, they make good NPCs.
