January 2026 Character Creation Challenge Introduction

[roseembolism]

Over on rpg.net they've been doing a January character creation challenge: one character a day for every day of January. I started on January 1st., and am using this to give examples of character creation in various games I like. 

It also occurred to me that having a permanent place to post these concepts would be a good idea. And since I don't want to create my own blog...

Here's a general outline of what I intend:

1. Traveller: Classic and Mongoose 2nd Edition: two useless nobles. with character creation commentary.
2. Sword World 2.5, a standard (core books only) and a minor class-based character (many supplements, at levels 2 (beginning), 6, and 9. Again with character creation commentary. Total of six characters.
3. Masks: the "Not the Doomed Playbook" character squad. (4 characters)
4. Fate Core Venture City: Two basic brawlers and a precog, to demonstrate the system.
5. Fate Venture City: The X-women, gender flipped versions of classic characters. (5 characters)
6. Traveller Mongoose The crew of the merchant Ship "Dancing Desire", including the ship as a character. 4-5 characters, with commentary.

Note, this has already gone out the window since I had to make an additional Traveller character.