January 2024 Character Creation Challenge

[prophane]

Anyone here planning on participating in this?

The January 2024 Character Creation Challenge

Looks like it could be fun. Make and share a new character each day in January (or at least reach day that you can...)

I'm going to try to do it!

[Eric]

This sounds like fun! I've put up a community announcement about it. Hopefully Weavers will post their characters here, of course! 😀 Wondering if it's worth making a game to collect them in one place where everyone can have their own topic, or even their own forum...

[prophane]

That would be cool!

[Suzuki Stumpy]

Oooo ... not sure I could commit to creating 31 characters, but sounds like a fun little exercise. Might give me a chance to have a think about some of those niche systems for which I have books kicking around too...

[RedRajah]

Well, if you want to see 31 1st edition 7th Sea characters... 😇

[leons1701]

Man, I've taken almost that long to make ONE character at times. Not saying I CAN'T make a character a day, but they'd pretty much all have to be 1st level with minimal thought put into anything besides mechanics.

[Fwog]

That's pretty much my hobby,I can come up with all 30 in one day

But if it requires filling sheets... that's the trick

I might label it as (30 days of making characters until i join a game or until it's feburary)

[hakootoko]

I agree with leons1701. There's no way I can make a character in under a week, let alone in a day.

I could, however, roll up a Traveler 1e PC every day of the month, to see how many of them survive it.

[prophane]

2 hours ago, hakootoko said:

I could, however, roll up a Traveler 1e PC every day of the month, to see how many of them survive it.

That could be fun in itself!

This is definitely not supposed to be a homework assignment; I know I can't make 31 characters in January, but I will enjoy making some throughout the month and sharing them.

 

I might try to recruit a handful of people to make a couple GURPS characters each and then share them on my game blog as guest posters, that way maybe we CAN actually get 31 of them made

[ABlotOfInk]

Sounds fun! I could definitely crank out a 5e character every day, and even maybe some other systems. I'm not a mechanics minded person though so they'd be pretty much vibes based. Maybe we could make teams and have people alternate what days they post, give everyone a few days or a week or something haha.

[TheFred]

I dunno, I've made that many characters I feel like a bigger challenge would be to put up an interesting game ad see who can manage not to make 31 characters for it.

[leons1701]

If I'm making characters for a specific game, and that game is "interesting", it's likely that given 31 days, I might make 5-6 characters. Probably more like 3-4. Maybe fewer if I get stuck on a particular idea that then refuses to gel properly. One if it's something crazy like mid level Pathfinder gestalt with spheres.

[RedRajah]

Now, when we define "character creation", is it just stats/powers/et al or equipment, back stories and miscellany too?

[prophane]

1 minute ago, RedRajah said:

Now, when we define "character creation", is it just stats/powers/et al or equipment, back stories and miscellany too?

It's whatever you want it to be. I don't think there's actual rules for it or anything. Just supposed to be fun sharing!

[Basil_Bottletop]

This site is filled with people who are basically just here to make fresh characters. Playing that character is seen as a punishment once the game starts.

We could probably put together an All-Star team and 'win' this challenge rather easily. ha!