Character Creation Challenge Hot Wash

I did it! I managed to create and post a character every day in the month of January. I have to say I'm proud of myself, as it did become a true 'challenge' as the month wore on. Work and family time, and then having to make the time to create a character, added up to long days. An added level of difficulty was creating characters with systems I have never played, and had not studied the rules before creating the character. So it was learn as I go.

But that was one of the best aspects of the month, was getting into systems that I either had form my youth but never played, or have picked up in the last few years (or months even!) and haven't played. It made me want to play them all that much more!

Looking back at my first post where I listed all the games I wanted to build in, I did very well there too. I built in everything I listed except four: 5E D&D, original Top Secret, Traveller Book 6 Scouts, and Traveller Supp 4 Citizens of the Imperium. I wasn't sure why I listed original Top Secret, but checking my PDFs now I see I have the original in there. I'm disappointed I do a Book 6 Scouts. I think I'll have to do that today. I did do a couple of Citizens of the Imperium, but I think I held them for emergencies and never came back to them. I rolled characters and took notes in a spiral notebook, so once I turned the page they went down the memory hole. I'll probably post them just for fun too.

I didn't do 5E because I'm just not a fan of it, too much min/maxing right from the get go from what I remember when I was studying up on it a couple of years ago. I would have had to work through alot of refresher to build a character. I did add one system that was not on my list, Thousand Suns. So of the 19 systems I listed, I built in 15 of them, and with Thousand Suns built in a total of 16 systems.

Here's the final stats:

Classic (Book 1) Traveller: 10

Aftermath!: 3

Classic Traveller (High Guard Book 5): 2

Gamma World 1E: 2

Star Frontiers: 2

Top Secret S.I.: 2

AD&D 1E: 1

AD&D 2E: 1

BECMI: 1

Dragonbane: 1

Universe: 1

Call of Cthulhu 1E: 1

Classic Traveller (Mercenary Book 4): 1

CyberPunk Red: 1

Shadowdark: 1

Thousand Suns: 1 (bonus system)

Original Top Secret: 0

Classic Traveller (Scouts Book 6): 0

Classic Traveller (Citizens of the Imperium Supplement 4): 0 (2 built put not posted)

D&D 5E: 0

So not too surprising to me. I had no plans or schedule, I just built what I felt like each day. Traveller Book 1 is familiar, fast, and builds a story so it's alot of fun. It is explicitly one of the 'games within the game' of Traveller.

Aftermath! being my acknowledged favorite RPG in my youth, it's no surprise I did multiple characters there. Gamma World was fast and fun also with the mutations.

I really want to do more in Universe, Dragonbane, and Thousand Suns to explore and learn those systems some more.  And maybe an Original Top Secret to compare to SI.

So this was fun and a great learning experience for systems I wasn't familiar with.