Character Creation Challenge 2023: Day 31

The challenge comes to a fittingly ridiculous end with Star Wreck: The Pirkinning by Mike Pohjola (2006). It’s a tie-in to the Star Wreck series of films – well, web vids to be precise – created by a small handful of friends & volunteers in a Helsinki apartment. Rather than bold standard bearers for the […]

Character Creation Challenge 2023: Day 28

Character 28, though a few days late for the 28th, is for the 2020 printing of Advanced Fighting Fantasy, Second Edition, based on Steve Jackson & Ian Livingston’s classic gamebook rules & elaborated by Graham Bottley. It’s a super simple set of rules, but you can get a surprising amount of depth out of it. […]

Character Creation Challenge 2023: Day 27

What day is this? What is time even any more? Appropriate questions to be asking since today’s game is Numenera by Monte Cook (2013). It’s a billion years in the future. Eight previous epochal civilizations have risen & fallen. Now the people of the Ninth World navigate the ruins of technological wonders no one can […]

Character Creation Challenge 2023: Day 25

Day 25 sees us trying to preserve the natural order again, but this time not by going on a bloodsoaked rampage. We’re not just not a werewolf, we aren’t even a regular wolf! This is eco, by Morrigan Studios (2005). It was one of a number of games (probably most notably Atlantis: The Second Age) […]

Character Creation Challenge 2023: Day 23

Today’s game continues the apocalypse, although in a much less wahoo mode than Mutant Future. Day 23 brings us to Atomic Highway, a 2009 game by Colin Chapman. This is a much more Mad Max style of post-apoc & the system reinforces that at every step. To begin with, we choose a concept. The game […]

Character Creation Challenge 2023: Day 21

Mutant Future, by Dan Proctor & Ryan Denison, was released in 2008 by Goblinoid Games. It’s a Gamma Worldization of Goblinoid’s Labyrinth Lord game, so similar in fact that you can pretty much mix & match any element from one into the other if you wanted to go full Thundarr the Barbarian with Ariel the […]