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Character Ideas:

Character creation masterpost

Character Alignment Chart

More character alignment descriptions

Muslim Character questions

Characters with magical powers

Building a new character advice

How to create a character for an online or tabletop RPG (also a good guide on creating characters in general)

Royalty/nobility TV Tropes page

Basic character profile

OC masterpost

Random character generators - (1), (2), (3), (4)

D&D Character Building Tool

Character Design Ideas:

How clothing affects a character’s personality

Character Design Inspiration blog

Concept art, fan art, cool art to be inspired by

Character design references and inspiration

Sources for POC character design ideas and models

Create your own character model using HeroForge

For horned characters

Body and hair types guide

Random outfit generator

Naming Help:

Amazing site with an endless amount of naming resources

General advice on avoiding naming appropriation

Hispanic Surnames

Gothic Victorian names

Huge master list for character things in general

Masterlist of names of all types - including but not limited to ancient/old world names, Celtic, African, Northern European, Southern and Central American Native names, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Polynesian, and more

Another name masterlist

How to pick a character name guide

Yet another names masterlist

Creating Background/backstory:

Character Sheet/Development Sheet

Another character development list

In-depth character personality, motivations and traits sheet

320 talents and passions for characters

On writing likes and dislikes that aren’t frivolous

Why you should write non-human characters non-conforming to the gender binary

Stereotypes, tropes, and archetypes

Random backstory generator

Assassin and thief character tropes to avoid

Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:

Comparing character height/height references

Characters who are scientists and writing about them doing science

Describing what different voices sound like

Describing skin tones

Writing friendship interactions that are platonic

Why having one character knock their friend unconscious to prevent them from doing something is a bad idea

Advice on shipping OCs with canon characters and what to avoid doing

Sweet Polly Oliver and Sweet on Polly Oliver situations (think of Disney’s Mulan for an example)

How to write multiple viewpoints/juggling a main cast of more than 4 to 6 characters

How to make readers care about your morally gray hero/anti-hero

On platonic OC and canon character relationships

How to avoid Godmodding in RPs

When it’s cheap to kill off a character

Writing dialogue

Things you shouldn’t do to canon characters

Avoiding purple prose in writing and RPs

Slang resources

Dialogue tips

Websites to chart your story/plot/character relationships

Human Ex-convict Champion of Redemption (follower of Iomedae)

For a PF 2e game!

(post comments have messed up, hence the Reblog)

(This is a rough draft, things will change)

In this game you play a fucking lich, because liches, man. This game can be played by a GM and a 1 player, but also with multiple players if you want multiple liches to interact with each other, hopefully cooperatively. You go around the table to say what you do. You use 2d6 to determine the outcome of events.

You roll when you do the following:

Do a Step in Undertaking a Project - Undertake any kind of long-term task such as having a building constructed, forming an army, founding a school for magic. Beware, others may interfere and when that happens, roll a contested roll.

Recruit minions - Whenever you do something that will gather others to your side, even if it’s the outcome of another thing you did like Do a Step in Undertaking a Project. You roll 2d6 + modifiers and get that many followers per event, if it’s something where you’d get a lot more like a vast army of a nation go ahead an multiply the result to a suitable number.

Sic Minions - Whenever you sent your minions to deal with a threat to you and your plans, you add +1 to your die roll for every 10 minions you have that are not seasoned adventurers. You get +1 to your roll for every 5 seasoned adventurers you send. If your non-seasoned adventurer minions mostly include mindless undead minions you created, add +1 for every 20. These bonuses all stack.

Diplomacy - Whenever you gain allies from another group, like a kingdom, a group of monsters, etc. you roll to determine the success of your diplomacy in addition to +1 for every thing the other faction likes about you.

Cast Magic - You are so good at magic you have turned yourself into an arcane masterpiece (or maybe someone else did). When you cast, you must declare your intent, your spell factors, and your target. More on this later.

Fights - Most lich fights are epic wizard battles of magic. You can roll on other things in a fight that are not covered in Cast Magic. Things your bring into the fight like defenses and minions can add bonuses.

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So I’m having a problem with our new campaign as most of the enemies will be undead, especially skeletons, the issue being that skeletons can’t talk and thus couldn’t do the verbal components of spells. Meanwhile things like the flameskull has no body but can perform somatic components.

I wrote previously about what it might mean for your character to have any particular pair of low stats, so here is the other end of the spectrum. What might it mean for your character to have an pair of high stats?

This is of course only a suggestion, and certainly is in no way exhaustive (like, at all). But it might spark some ideas for your character.

DMs: You might have a use for this chart as well. This is a quick way to figure out how to describe an NPC just by looking at their stat block. It could also be useful if NPCs are describing the PCs. 

“Yes officer, it was that scrappy looking halfling over there who stole my horse!”