Comments on: Differing Methods of Character Generation http://www.lategaming.com/2006/11/27/differing-methods-of-character-generation/ staying up late, playing games Tue, 29 May 2012 05:01:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Melody http://www.lategaming.com/2006/11/27/differing-methods-of-character-generation/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Melody Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:39:25 +0000 http://www.lategaming.com/2006/11/27/differing-methods-of-character-generation/#comment-53 I'm all for a kinder and gentler method of char-gen that quantifies well enough for dice but doesn't leave you setting appointments for people to come over and work on their characters (something I've been known to do in order to give characters proper attention and do some background roleplaying to get people more cozy with IC). Generally, I partner up more experienced rpers with less experienced rpers and let them mentor them through it using guidelines I've already laid out. Email has helped in recent years, as I can tell people to think up a paragraph background (as you wrote above) and all of that can be done before trying to translate it onto paper. But char-gen still takes too damn long, IMO. I'm in agreement that the points allocation methods tend to equalize too much and aren't very realistic. I've done a randomly rolled "extra point" pool to help differentiate the results, but you always seem to have that one person who whines that it isn't fair. I’m all for a kinder and gentler method of char-gen that quantifies well enough for dice but doesn’t leave you setting appointments for people to come over and work on their characters (something I’ve been known to do in order to give characters proper attention and do some background roleplaying to get people more cozy with IC). Generally, I partner up more experienced rpers with less experienced rpers and let them mentor them through it using guidelines I’ve already laid out. Email has helped in recent years, as I can tell people to think up a paragraph background (as you wrote above) and all of that can be done before trying to translate it onto paper. But char-gen still takes too damn long, IMO.

I’m in agreement that the points allocation methods tend to equalize too much and aren’t very realistic. I’ve done a randomly rolled “extra point” pool to help differentiate the results, but you always seem to have that one person who whines that it isn’t fair.

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