Character Creation Challenge 2026 Intro

 Character Creation Challenge 2026

I came across this in various RPG blogs I've been reading over the last year, so thought I'd give it a shot. Besides playing in a 1E Greyhawk campaign most of 2024, I have not played for decades. But when the Kickstarter for Traveller5 came across my screen (however long ago that was) my interest in RPGs was rekindled. I discovered the OSR, dug out what books and material I had saved from my childhood (late 1970s-1980s gamer), and started tinkering. 

My plan for the challenge is to create characters in every system I own, some of which I have never played. I also plan on using random results where provided in the generation system, at least for the initial character. Additional characters in that system I will probably choose more to customize a character. In Traveller, since I want to create a character of every profession, I will assume acceptance in that profession. I will also not use death during creation, but my house rule of injury based on the magnitude of missing the roll: 1 - injured, continue service normally, 2 - major injury, continue but no skill that term (recuperation), 3 or more - major injury, immediate muster out.

Here's the list, * indicating systems I've never played:

AD&D: 1E, 2E*, 5E*

BECMI* (Rules Cyclopedia)

DragonBane*

Top Secret S.I. *

Top Secret

Star Frontiers*

Universe*

Call of Cthulhu 1E*

Aftermath

Classic (Book 1) Traveller

Classic Traveller (Mercenary Book 4)

Classic Traveller (High Guard Book 5)

Classic Traveller (Scouts Book 6)

Classic Traveller (Citizens of the Imperium Supplement 4)

CyberPunk Red* (Easy Mode free PDF is all I have)

Gamma World 1E

Shadowdark*

So I'll do at least one of each system, and let the whims take me to multiples. Traveller will be alot, because I'd like to do one of each profession.

This will be interesting since it will take time to work through systems I'm unfamiliar with.

We'll see how I do :).

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