One MILLION things... in one SINGLE table!

(I might have talked about this before, and I'm considering the idea again, so I apologize in advance for repeating myself).

This is from Dark Fantasy Characters:

And this is one example of PC would could get using the tables in the book (I did actually roll this):

[Format #1]

Name: Odo

Background: barbarian

Skill: thievery

Fighting style: bow

Armor: chain

Equipment style: Spiked

Flaw: lust

Motivation: Pride (family)

Appearance: Flamboyant

As you can imagine, you could generate millions of characters with a few die rolls (I use a 3d10 die drop table, include in the book; you can see the table here). 

You'd have to make sense of all this information to create a coherent whole. For example:

[Format #2]

Odo is a barbarian. He looks thin, tall, with strong muscles. He is stealthy and fights with a bow that matches his height. He wears leather armor and spiked pauldrons. While travelling through civilized lands to womanize (his favorite hobby), he acquired a flamboyant look, dying his long hairs and beard a bright blue, and wearing multiple precious rings. He fights for the honor of his family, although his family forgot about him years ago, when he left the clan. One day he hopes to come back rich and famous to prove everyone he is worthy.

Format #2 is a lot more useful if you need a quick NPC on the fly. But, of course, now you'd have at most twenty or thirty characters per page, instead of millions.

Now, there is a way to do both at the same time. You could create a d100 table with 100 different NPCs, all of them ready for play. 100 is a good number; it is unlikely you'll use more than that in a single campaign. But if you roll three times in this d100 table, combining appearance, skills, and flaws, you already have one million possible results (100 x 100 x 100).

Come to think of it, you could build an entire game (or at least the GM's guide) around that premise.

I'm not sure, however, people would enjoy this hybrid format; some would prefer format #1 for creating their own NPCs (you could certainly create a different Odo with the same results), while others might feel that if they have to "combine" three entries using format two, they'd be doing all the work anyway.

I'm curious to know your opinion. What do you think? Do you prefer to have ready-to-use NPCs (and magic items, plots, monsters, etc.), a few random tables, or some intermediate format? 

Let me know in the comments!