Jun 3, 2014
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| Meet Freefall (aka Trent Thompson) |
The start of this series is going to be short, mainly tools to help. With any luck you will find it as useful as the Character Creation Saga episodes. Aside from books, movies, and game setting books there are lot of online tools as well.
Some basic all around tools and articles:
Ash's Guide to RPG Personality and Background
- A bit longer one to use, but very inclusive, focused mainly on personality and how to then build a background from said personality. I think someone in the Google plus community, for savage worlds fans, is actually looking to create a click and generate version, of this for ease of use.
- Fairly generic questions, that a fully fleshed out character should be able to answer. Some of these will actually help put the polish, on your background.
- There are five linked articles, in this post, each with another idea on character creation and background.
- A quick and easy method that hits the highlights, without dragging it out
- Scroll for a bit to get to it... Kind of an in-between one, this one is short but breaks down social classes focused on personality, which is a good jumping point for background.
- I like the first response post. Using hash-tags since everyone is now forced by social media, to conform to the standard. Everyone already knows how to use them. Plus, if you have pre-planned adventures, and someone doesn't show, you have other options based on attendance.
Other helpful tools more specific:
- My almost exclusive name generator
Google Image Search
- Not even kidding, great source of inspiration
- also not going to link that...
- Works with names from 20000 Names if you want to mix it up
- Character images just like the one used for this article
Random Pathfinder Background generator (works for any fantasy setting really)
- You can also see the full list of options on the site rather than using the generator.
RPG Character Generator
- On android market place, also a premiere version. One click backgrounds
