The Adventure of Character Creation

 

Most tabletop RPGs strive to make character creation fast and simple in order to enable you to play the game as soon as possible; after all, playing the game is what you came for. The trade-off with this approach is that it often leads to simplistic or formulaic starting characters whose options are limited.

Mythmaster's response to this is that creating a character should, itself, be fun. If the process of character creation is fun, your attachment to your character will grow as you are making them, allowing for a more involved process, and a greater diversity of possible starting characters. In this way, the character you start with will be a character you want to play - not a character who might eventually become the character you want to play. To achieve this, Mythmaster establishes four goals:

• Character creation should be playful, not a task to perform prior to play.
• Character creation should be an adventure, not a hurdle to overcome before adventure.
• Character creation should be something you get better at, not something rote.
• Character creation should be an accelerated progression system, not a different progression system.

With these goals in mind, the character creation process in Mythmaster has been designed to simulate the passage of your character’s life over the span of many years — from the time they are a child, until the time at which you decide they are ready to begin adventuring.

During the character creation process, you will make choices about how to invest your character's efforts. You will also experience Life Events and roll dice to determine their outcomes based on your character's Stats and Attributes. These events and their consequences will significantly shape who your character becomes. Like the backstory of a character in a book or a film, what happens to your character during the character creation process becomes the history of their life up until the time you begin playing them.

The Character Generator

Mythmaster characters are created using the Character Generator. Creating a new character using this tool can be done in about 15 minutes, but will take longer the older you want your character to be.