Quote Originally Posted by Telok View Post
Seriously, it works. Can depend a bit on the system and campaign, you don't want to try for a teens at school slice of life comedy with it. Nor anything it takes more than 5 or so minutes to gen a character significantly different from the last.
That doesn't really answer my question. According to they link "Our regiment was mustered, our characters met and trained, and we were deployed to fight some orks", which would work as justification for why the party's together even without the added meatgrinder. I'm not saying this method is bad (though I don't think I would enjoy it myself), but I still don't see how it'd solve this particular problem.