I like the random charcter creation aspect in theory but oh my so many diffcult variations they create.
The randomness is probably what have kept me away from casters, I know better now but have yet to make any serious try with a caster.
A good example was the hurthling priest I rolled, it had a whopping 8 learning wich got me some good 40-50 castings when reading was successful....
Topped that off with IBM scroll and kobold tension room after first door in SMC.
Next got a decent gnome priest with book starsign, scare monster and magic mapping wasn't the starting spells I was looking for ....
Do you reroll until you get the über start you were looking for or have anyone had success with really scappy caster starts?