After the Imaginary Character Creation Session

I needed four heroes for Press Gang Project #1, and, thankfully, I got them! After the challenge of using Rory's Story Cubes to inspire a character concept, four people submitted brief hero descriptions that I'm now developing into detailed Advanced Fighting Fantasy heroes.

Here are the characters:

Terrima, a masterless female-shaped stone golem wizard haunted by failure;

Daeuk, a thief from Port Blacksand gifted with a natural genius for healing;

Thom, a warrior-archer outcast branded with the mark of a mysterious shame;

Dalvik, a priest secretly tasked with exposing demons disguised as royalty.

That leaves me with a classic quartet of fantasy characters, though each has skill quirks setting him or her apart from the stereotypical archetype. AFF's classless character creation system can easily handle each of those quirks!

The characters will soon embark on the adventure conceived earlier in the month via the consultation with my imaginary players. Later this week, I'll present the full character creations, as well as the first part of the adventure - a trek through Fangheart Swamp - and a preview of the concepts that are evolving around the Boisterous Device in the ruins of the Registry of Magical Pets.

My goal: have for each of the above characters a newly-tweaked Press Gang Questionnaire (representing both parts of the complete adventure) ready by Christmas weekend so I can exploit family weaknesses for "holiday cheer" to get people to fill them out!

Then, the game is on!