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snowynight) wrote2024-03-31 02:15 pm
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2024 Character Creation Challenge: Chasing Adventure
Chasing Adventure is a tabletop rpg tailored for DND tropes: fast paced cinematic action in a dangerous fantasy world. The free version has everything you need to play, while the paid version has more tables and options. If you have heard of Powered by the Apocalypse (PBTA), it's a streamlined version of Dungeon World and does its own thing. If you haven't heard of PBTA before, the rule system is inspired by Apocalypse World and here's an explanation about the design philosophy. TLDR: Chasing Adventure let you play DND-que adventure without ability scores, hit points, encumbrance, gold pieces, & race and alignment.
I really like how simple and clear it is. My character feels distinctive without me pouring hours into character optimization. There're story hooks and in-group connection just from character creation.
I create my character by choosing the cleric playbook (flexible archetypal cores for a player character.)
Each character archetype has 4 starting moves. Clerics have Atonement (taking negative conditions onto themselves and negating some with Spirit [default no: 2]), Divine Agent (gain favour from a deity define by you), Hearts and Minds ( to uncover someone's deepest thought), Invocation (call upon the deity's power).
My character, Renate worships the god of death, who's an impartial judge of the dead. People with newly dead loved one pray to them so that their spirits can find peace in the underworld. The god and abhors the undead like zombies, vampires, liches, etc. Their cleric are responsible for proper burial of the dead, bring lingering spirits to the underworld and destroy the undead. When the god favours Renate, they hear voice of ghosts and animals fear their presence.
Renate is devoted to giving rest to spirits and help them and their family/friends handle their unfinished business, so I choose Minister from the 3 available backgrounds. Then I choose a staff, polished chainmail and an adventurer's gear for additional equipment.
There's an ask section with 3 questions to connect Renate with other PCs, like which PC knows a secret about Renate or their faith . I skip it because I only make one character.
Renate has 3 questions to answer for character depth and story hooks. It's interesting to start out with conflicted feeling about their faith :
Clerics start out with two known invocations. To fit the theme of Renate's deity, I choose Contact Spirits (speak with a departed soul whose body is nearby or whom you knew when they were alive) and Dismiss (A nearby otherworldly entity or spirit is banished from the world or back to whatever tethers it here)
Game Stat
Name: Renate
Drive: Sacrifice something important for someone who needs it more. (from Background)
Stats: STR -1 DEX +1 INT 0 CHA +1 WIS +2
Starting moves: Atonement, Divine Agent, Hearts and Minds, Invocation
Background: Minister
Equipment: A symbol of your faith, Supplies (3 Uses, Slow), Medicine (2 Uses, Slow), Regal Staff (Close, Heavy), Polished Chainmail (1 Armor), Adventuring Gear (5 Uses)
Ask
Initially, you and your deity Favor each other. You also Favor the PC you had an ominous vision about.
What did your vision depict? Who have you told about it? Where might you find more information?
Cleric invocations: Contact Spirits, Dismiss
I really like how simple and clear it is. My character feels distinctive without me pouring hours into character optimization. There're story hooks and in-group connection just from character creation.
I create my character by choosing the cleric playbook (flexible archetypal cores for a player character.)
You see the world as it truly is - a part of something greater, an existence filled with angels and demons, gods and devils, mortals and spirits. Some call you mad, others a liar, but you carry this truth with you to all people. No malady is too severe for you to heal, no burden too heavy for you to carry. For truth is made worthy through action.
Each character archetype has 4 starting moves. Clerics have Atonement (taking negative conditions onto themselves and negating some with Spirit [default no: 2]), Divine Agent (gain favour from a deity define by you), Hearts and Minds ( to uncover someone's deepest thought), Invocation (call upon the deity's power).
My character, Renate worships the god of death, who's an impartial judge of the dead. People with newly dead loved one pray to them so that their spirits can find peace in the underworld. The god and abhors the undead like zombies, vampires, liches, etc. Their cleric are responsible for proper burial of the dead, bring lingering spirits to the underworld and destroy the undead. When the god favours Renate, they hear voice of ghosts and animals fear their presence.
Renate is devoted to giving rest to spirits and help them and their family/friends handle their unfinished business, so I choose Minister from the 3 available backgrounds. Then I choose a staff, polished chainmail and an adventurer's gear for additional equipment.
There's an ask section with 3 questions to connect Renate with other PCs, like which PC knows a secret about Renate or their faith . I skip it because I only make one character.
Renate has 3 questions to answer for character depth and story hooks. It's interesting to start out with conflicted feeling about their faith :
- Who else serves your deity and how do you differ? Renate's colleagues aren't as interested in helping spirits satisfy their unfinished business. They're considered eccentric.
- When did your faith fail you? Sometimes the business can't be finished. The death clerics are supposed to focus on the dead, but it's frustrating unable to help when they're alive.
- What has your deity promised you? The god shows them an ominous vision of a coming crisis. They have to investigate and help avert it with the god's help.
Clerics start out with two known invocations. To fit the theme of Renate's deity, I choose Contact Spirits (speak with a departed soul whose body is nearby or whom you knew when they were alive) and Dismiss (A nearby otherworldly entity or spirit is banished from the world or back to whatever tethers it here)
Game Stat
Name: Renate
Drive: Sacrifice something important for someone who needs it more. (from Background)
Stats: STR -1 DEX +1 INT 0 CHA +1 WIS +2
Starting moves: Atonement, Divine Agent, Hearts and Minds, Invocation
Background: Minister
You spent your life helping the downtrodden, needy, marginalized, oppressed, and outcast. Some love you for it, while others despise you.
Equipment: A symbol of your faith, Supplies (3 Uses, Slow), Medicine (2 Uses, Slow), Regal Staff (Close, Heavy), Polished Chainmail (1 Armor), Adventuring Gear (5 Uses)
Ask
- Who here is treading down a dark path?
- Who here knows an enemy of my deity?
- Who here knows a secret about me or my faith?
- Who else serves your deity and how do you differ?
- When did your faith fail you?
- What has your deity promised you?
Initially, you and your deity Favor each other. You also Favor the PC you had an ominous vision about.
What did your vision depict? Who have you told about it? Where might you find more information?
Cleric invocations: Contact Spirits, Dismiss