Career Day is an open world randomizer for Final Fantasy V. Items, abilities, jobs, and even bosses are shuffled up, to provide a fresh playthrough each time. However, those aren't the only changes: you're given vastly greater freedom to roam the game's world in an order you decide on. Your goal is to successfully collect the Four Tablets, which will unlock doors within the Cleft of Dimensions. To do this, you'll go around the world, checking chests and shops for items, abilities and jobs, and defeating bosses to obtain key item checks. When you've progressed with enough key items, you'll gradually gain access in the Cleft of Dimensions, and you can challenge the final boss to claim victory.

It is suggested that you have played through Final Fantasy V normally at least once; however, it isn't required.

You will need a rom of the SNES release of Final Fantasy V - either the original JP rom, or with the RPGe 1.1 translation patch applied. Upload that rom at the randomizer's page, set your preferred settings, and then hit 'generate' to create a .zip file. Download and extract that - it contains the randomized rom, as well as the .asm patch for that specific seed, and a spoiler log file. The spoiler log contains the details of exactly what the game now contains where - if you ever feel completely stuck, you can look it up, but you shouldn't need to.

Aside from the randomization, Career Day has a variety of changes, big and small, to how the game progresses.

You begin the game with your full party, and immediate access to the airship. You also possess an extremely important item called the WarpShard. Using this item from your inventory will teleport you to a warp zone, where you can freely teleport to other worlds (You may need to unlock World 2/3 based on your options). When you arrive in the worlds, your transportation will always be right next to you.

The game is progressed through tracking down and defeating Bosses. Every Boss Location in the game is still active. After defeating a boss, you will get either a high-power piece of equipment, or a Key Item. Key Items are how you progress - these finds allow you to open new locations with more bosses. Bosses are randomized based on their location - a complex boss tiering system determines how the HP, boss stats, and AI each location has. The general idea is that although bosses are shuffled, their relative power will change based on where they appear in the game - World 1 has easier bosses, whereas World 2 and 3 get progressively more difficult.

All rewards (which refer to event rewards, such as collecting Job Crystals, and chests, such as those in dungeons) will have randomized contents as well. Depending on your settings, these rewards can either be completely randomized, or they adhere to a logical tiering system that gradually places better items throughout the game.

Similarly, shops have settings for completely randomized or a tiering system.

Your ultimate objective is to find all four Tablet key items, which allows you to progress through the Cleft of Dimensions in World 3. Take down the gauntlet of bosses within, and face Neo Exdeath to complete the game!

Career Day randomizes the following things:

• Your starting Job and gear
• The contents of shops. You can now find and purchase Abilities and Jobs!
• The contents of chests. These can also be Abilities and Jobs now. Monster-in-a-boxes are also randomly shuffled in their locations.
• All rewards given by events and NPCs - Including ones that formerly gave Jobs!
• Almost all bosses are shuffled. They are scaled based on their new location.
• Omega and Shinryuu have randomized ailment/elemental weaknesses, stats, and AI, if you want an extra challenge
• Optional: Enemy drops and steals can be shuffled
• Optional: Color palettes for player characters

Career Day does not shuffle the following:

• No Exdeath fights are changed - they're in the same places and have the same capabilities.
• Items, Spells, Jobs, and Abilities still do exactly what you expect of them.
• Jobs still teach the same list of Abilities to individual characters as they always did.
• Areas of the game have not been moved or changed - the layouts remain familiar.