4d6, keep the best 3. repeat six times and arrange the stats to taste. :)
For a novel, I keep a spreadsheet of info, including a tab on characters so I can track their names, race, gender, etc. With graphs so I can see the diversity (or lack thereof). I had one short story get called out (luckily during beta reading) about where the women were. It wasn't intended to be an all guy story, but it needed some balance.
I don't have super-deep notes on each one, but I usually have a good idea of what the main characters are like in my head.
At times, my characters get assigned race/gender as I need a person for a scene, then I work out what that person would be like, and if they're a stereotype, how do I break them out of it. So perhaps they get onstage looking like the stereotype, then we find out they're not. I like the challenge of figuring out how to make it work from what I thought I was going to do when I started.
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