The Imaginary Character Creation Session

While I'm working on the adventure premise derived from our Imaginary Consultation, I need to press you all into service once more. It's character creation time!

In the new edition of Advanced Fighting Fantasy, players have tremendous freedom when it comes to creating their characters. There are no classes, so role restrictions are virtually nonexistent. Starting heroes are just that - HEROES. They're uniquely qualified to face the formidable dangers of a world that has no intention of letting them live long enough to enjoy fame and glory.

The main races are Human, Dwarf, and Elf, but most other fantasy races can be adapted to become playable (AFF author Graham Bottley even came up with a conversion formula), so almost anything goes.

No knowledge of the world of Titan is necessary to create a character concept. Just think gritty medieval fantasy, and the specifics can be tweaked afterwards.

Here are a few examples of brief descriptions of character concepts that I've easily been able to stat-up for AFF action:

Learning the naval trade at a very young age, Kessington Vorn expected to live the life of a sailor. However, when he discovered his affinity for weather magic, he became a swashbuckling, seafaring adventurer with a rapier as quick as lightning and spells as powerful as a ship's cannon!

Priestess Cayla Sunshadow is favored by the goddess of luck and fate more for the ways she applies her love of gambling to her vocation than for her reverence to the order. Teaching lessons to the wicked with grifts, probability control, and very sharp crossbow bolts, Cayla enjoys causing evil's luck to turn against itself whenever she can.

Preferring to master blades rather than magic like his Elven kin, Faelon Dalsheez believes in a proactive stance against evil, one achieved through sharpened steel. Seeking revenge for the suffering the Elves have endured, radical Faelon - acrobat, hunter, survivalist - grimly travels the land in a relentless crusade to hack away at evil.

Now, it's your turn! Here's your next task:

Write a brief medieval fantasy character description like the ones above. However, you MUST draw inspiration for the character from the clever combination of TWO of the images on the Rory's Story Cubes (that I swear I honestly rolled) in the following picture:

Leave your description as a comment to this post. The deadline is Saturday, December 17, 2011.  The heroes used in the solo GM-ing adventure will be randomly determined.

GO BOLD!

In the meantime, I'll still be working on the "Boisterous Device" adventure, and I'll be buying way too many new plastic super heroes as the next Heroclix set The Incredible Hulk is released this week!

Thanks!