Category: Player Characters

  • I have just begun GMing a short post-apocalyptic campaign using the Mutant: Year Zero system. Before adventure begins the system requires the PCs – who play mutants – generate their safe haven, which is called the Ark. This is a brief description of the Ark from which the PCs will begin their adventure. Zone location…

  •   Standing at the limit of an endless ocean Stranded like a runaway, lost at sea City on a rainy day down in the harbour Watching as the grey clouds shadow the bay Looking everywhere ’cause I had to find you This is not the way that I remember it here Anyone will tell you…

  • With the Spiral Confederacy campaign rolling to a close my regular gaming group is about to embark on a new campaign in a setting called Undriel, using a variant of World Of Darkness rules with Ars Magica type magical system. Undriel is high fantasy with a strong flavouring from Irish folklore. This is my character…

  • My group has started a Fate short campaign that we’re calling Magica Romae, a campaign set in the Roman era with light magic. I missed the first session, in Gaul, with undead; my character joins on the second. She is Naevia the Holy, once a Vestal Virgin who finished her 30 years of service with…

  • I’m all alone Matter and shadow In the darkflow Treading deep waters Searching for the shore Waiting for the dawn to come – Catechism of the Tomb Masters of Duat Duat is a small desert planet on the Frontier. Its two big oceans frame one huge continent that appears to be all sand and stone.…

  • One of the members of my regular gaming group is thinking of running a one-off set in the world of Mad Max, probably hacking the Fate rules. I don’t know how the Fate rules work but I’m very excited to consider gaming in Mad Max’s crazed world. So here are a few ideas for character…

  • If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance – Inuit proverb Drew stared, blank-eyed, at the doctor. He was watching her intently, probably thinking his expression meant something to her, but to him he was just the same as all the rest. A man, not old enough to be…

  • If the Autumn Bridge shakes in your bellows Your every breath will be your last For you must dredge the waters till the Just give up the Dead … The sands of waters will make you clean And you will hear the whispers beyond I recently started playing in a short Malifaux campaign, with my…

  • I don’t know what you’re doing here When there’s murder on the street I appreciate your concern But don’t waste your time on me I’m ashes on the water now Somewhere far away Dedicated Retribution Unit 471 (Involuntarily Demobilized), known colloquially as the Druid, is my character for an upcoming cyberpunk campaign. The Druid (who…

  • Cog 11 is the gnome rogue I am playing in my new 13th Age campaign, the Eroding Empire. Cog 11 (“Cog”) is a cold-hearted, selfish and anti-social wretch. Orphaned (or abandoned) on the edge of the Wild Wood when he was very small, Cog grew up as a wildling, a member of a small group…