Esoteric Renaissance

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Character Creation Challenge Plan

Graphic depicting several blank sheets of paper, dice, and a pencil. Image is captioned: 31 Day Character Creation Challenge. New year, new you. For each day in January create a new character, and post it online for an RPG that ou play or wish to play. #charactercreationchallenge

Coming into this a little late, but I will be participating in the Character Creation Challenge hosted on tardiscaptain.com.

I came across a link to this challenge on New Year's day after following a rabbit hole on Mastodon and the web that covered so many random pages I couldn't actually tell you where I saw the link itself. Character creation has always been my favorite part of being a ttrpg player. I love telling the resultant story, of course. But, the creation of that character, matching the stats to a personality and background, is my true love. You can see this at work in my series, A Study in Character Development (which I will be returning to now that I've restarted this blog).

So, a month long challenge for creating characters is a temptation too great to ignore.

(And, hey! I'm currently unemployed! I have time!)

So, this is the basic premise summarized from the challenge page:

  • The goal is to post 31 newly created characters in January
  • It doesn't matter what system or systems or how many systems are used.
  • Either books/paper or character creation apps are allowable
  • Light prep ahead of time is allowed (I missed that part)
  • Character info should include enough data to be able to start play

Obviously, I'm late and need to play a little catch-up. This is my plan for how to proceed:

  • Use the numerous 3rd party D&D settings I'm not doing anything with while I focus on our Dragonlance campaign.
  • Creating a single character is not enough for me to really dig into a setting. I will be creating a 'party' for each setting.
  • Each party will contain 4 - 5 characters. If I end up with leftover days, I will create the final characters using some alternate character creation supplements I have.
  • Ability Scores will be generated using a roll 4d6, drop the lowest, method to generate six numbers and then each assigned to an ability.
  • Characters will be created at Level 5 to explore some of the setting-specific classes, backgrounds, feats, etc. that become available in later levels.

I'm really looking forward to this!

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