The Character Portfolio

Like nearly everyone else in this hobby, I own more games than I'll ever be able to play. But making characters for games you will never play is a time-honored tradition and I figured I might as well turn it into something interesting to read.

Basic premise here is that I'm going to go digging through my archive of games looking for anything with character generation complex enough to make an interesting blogpost out of, and then I'll go through the process step-by-step, rules-as-written. The end result should hopefully be somewhere between solo play report, mini-review, and creative writing exercise. If the process for a single character isn't super in-depth, I'll make a full party slash whatever other setting building tables and procedures they have in there. 

Many of these games I've either not read in full or haven’t read in ages (or both), so I fully expect some surprises to come out of the woodwork and / or some of these to be duds that I have to toss. The list below is neither exhaustive nor a guarantee: I'm sticking it here to give a rough overview of what's available and provide a handy random table in case I need a suggestion. 

If the muses move you to start compiling a portfolio of your own, let me know! I’ll link to it down below.

Completed Characters

Watch this space!

The List

1. 60 Years in Space v.6
2. Shattered
3. Delta Green (2016)
4. Runequest (2018)
5. Dungeons the Dragoning 7th Edition
6. Star Wars 5e
7. Hellboy 5e
8. Eclipse Phase 2e
9. Talislanta 4e/5e
10. Shadow of the Demon Lord
11. Spire & Heart
12. Red Markets
13. Ringworld
14. Pokerole
15. Nibiru
16. New Horizons
17. Mutant Year 0
18. Mistborn Adventure Game
19. LISA the RPG
20. Lancer
21. Harlem Underground
22. Halo Mythic 2.0
23. FIST
24. As the Sun Forever Sets
25. Engine Heart
26. CAIN
27. Dogs in the Vinyard
28. Across A Thousand Dead Worlds
29. [DATA EXPUNGED]
30. Open Quest 3e
31. A wide selection of GURPS
32. Sleepaway
33. Land of Eem (2022 Quickstart)
34. Armour Astir
35. Blades in the Dark
36. Deadball
37. 60Virsi0ns v.7
38. Final Fantasy d6 
39. BLAM
40. D&D 3.5 + supplements 
41. Silent Legions
42. Stars Without Number
43. Worlds Without Number 
44. Ars Magica 3e