Hey gamer friends,

There's a new blog post up at the PlayArchitect Games Blog. Check it out:

Chargen: More Than the Dice

In Legends of the Cage, everybody needs to roll a fighter. No fighter, no fights. Easy, right?

Wrong. Not easy. If you had asked me which system would be the most challenging to tune right away I would not have told you character generation.

Before we dive into the why and how of character generation, let’s establish the theme and purpose behind the method.

Legends of the Cage is a game about a mixed martial arts promotion. You create a big “league” of sorts in which fighters compete. The Promoter (think of them as the DM/GM) builds in incentives for high quality fighting. Players should want to do as well as they can, but like in real life, not every fighter can be a champ.

Character generation should reasonably reflect the variation in natural human ability...

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To future worlds,

Matt Ventre

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