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Post by serendipity on Sept 25, 2007 8:45:15 GMT -5
My DM tossed this one at us a while back, and I had to share. He had us create characters and gave us lots of points to play with as we bought powers and attributes. Then he said we're taking our characters back in time five years ago, and he reduced everything accordingly. Sometimes things we'd bought, like special weapons, hadn't been made yet. Sometimes we weren't as strong in an area as we'd been. It helped us to create a character concept and to get an idea where we wanted that PC to go without beginning with gaudy stats and powers. It was pretty neat (after we got past the shock of not being as strong as we'd expected to be in most areas).
Has anyone else experienced this? Or another sneaky character generation method?
--Sere
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Post by nihilisticmind on Sept 27, 2007 18:19:20 GMT -5
There was this campaign I ran involving a Pattern that transported you through time (mostly to do the Pattern's bidding).
I did something very similar with character creation: The characters were ancient amberites at the beginning of the campaign; I had the players start out with 600 points. There were 5 phases in time that they went back, so they had to back down to 500 points, then 400 and so on. Whenever the PCs would travel to a certain time, they would get the appropriate stats. Needless to say they got absolutely no experience points during the campaign...
The campaign was very succesful and tons of fun... Lots of twists and turns in Time.
Another fun character creation bout that I witnessed was this: the GM hands the Players blank character sheets and tells them there is no point limit, and simply to fulfill the concept that they wanted to play. Then, the GM switched the sheets at random and declared a throne war was the premise for the campaign start. My belief is that the GM had no idea what the campaign would be about, but it certainly was a surprising start.
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Dilvish
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Post by Dilvish on Sept 27, 2007 19:41:06 GMT -5
Very neat idea. I wish I could play more and maybe use this in a game!
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