A Character Sheet
12/11 '25
So I recently posted about the idea of creating a TTRPG. I'm still plugging away at it in between art tasks. Not making a ton of progress or anything, but having fun thinking about things, and what I need to include v what I need to keep out.
Tonight, for fun, I sat with my nephew and we created a character for him. He didn't break the creativity bank, but in fairness to him, he's never played an RPG before, so he didn't have a whole lot of experience to draw from. He started with 'like Indiana Jones' and moved into both pirate and ninja genres as we worked through character creation.
Mostly, he was responsive to things I suggested and his own flights of fancy.
My intent is to have him make up a couple more characters and I'll take him through a small 'adventure' (a couple of scenes) with all of them so he can learn about keeping separate characters in his head and go from there.
So far, the system is heavily influenced by the OSR, Knave 1.0, and several others like Shadowdark. KISS is my starting point, but it already feels like I'm making it too complicated, so I will probably do several rounds of cuts after I get the rough draft completed.
ETA: Our December Kickstarter is up and funded! Check it out to see the finished cover! (below is an early version)
