I had two revelations this evening. First, I own a ton of tabletop RPGs--I was casually looking at my bookcase and scrolling through my PDF files, and woo boy, there are a lot of them. Second, it has been a long time since I sat down and made characters. In large measure this is because I am the Forever GM, and so rarely have the occasions to do the full PC character creation. But character creation is fun, and it has occurred to me that I own games that I have never made characters for. That seems like an injustice, a significant "party foul," as it were.
So, I am going to do a series--40 characters, one for each game I have, before the end of the year. I was going to do "40 characters in 40 days," but that seemed optimistic to a delusional degree, so I'm going to build in some flexibility. The idea here is that I will describe the process of making a character under that particular system in a blogpost. My hope is that it will give you a sense of the game and the sorts of characters that come out of the game, as well as follow along on what is ultimately a pretty goofy exercise.
As I thought about it, I am going to put in place some self-imposed ground rules. First, I am only going to use core rulebooks of the particular game. Some of these games have expansion books and some of them don't, so to both simplify things and to keep things on an even playing field, we'll use the core book only. Along the same lines, I am going to follow what, as best as I can tell, is the default method of character creation--no optional rules, no shortcuts, just the base rules. Finally, I'm going to alternate between making male and female characters--for no particular reason other than as a creative challenge to come up with character concepts.
With that in mind, here's the game list that I plan to do. The order is the order that they sit on my shelf and on my hard drive, and so no particular order, really.
1. 13th Age
2. 13th Age in Glorantha
3. Torchbearer
4. Ashen Stars
5. Night's Black Agents
6. Fall of DELTA GREEN
7. D&D 5th Edition
8. AD&D 1st Edition
9. Adventures in Middle Earth (5e)
10. Star Trek Adventures
11. Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of
12. Runequest: Roleplaying in Glorantha
13. Call of Cthulhu (7th Edition)
14. Numenera
15. The Strange
16. 7th Sea (2nd Edition)
17. Monsterhearts (2nd Edition)
18. Dungeon World
19. Trail of Cthulhu
20. Torg: Eternity
21. Starfinder
22. Esper Genesis
23. Free Spacer
24. Tales from the Loop
25. Things from the Flood
26. Apocalypse World (2nd Edition)
27. Axon Punk
28. Eclipse Phase (2nd Edition)
29. Pendragon (5.2 Edition)
30. Paladin
31. Pathfinder (1st Edition)
32. Shadowrun
33. Swords of the Serpentine (Playtest)
34. The Sprawl
35. The Veil
36. The Yellow King
37. Heroquest: Glorantha
38. Fear Itself
Eagle-eyed readers will see that this list is two entries short. This is because (1) I probably forgot some games that I have; (2) given my purchasing habits, I may end up getting two new games before the end of year, ad (3) if anyone wants to suggest a game to look at, I have space to "work it in" at the end. So, if you have suggestions, shoot them my way. At the end, I'll probably gather up all the character sheets into one place, to have a record of this adventure.
First up--13th Age!
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