Just had some solo fun rolling up a bunch of freebooters, which I am planning to use for convention or one-shot games. I really enjoyed the randomness, with many of them being just terrible and one lucky freebooter who got an 18 and two 16s.
I think I’ll just make people pick by reading out the basic description: “Esward, a chaotic human magic user”.
And Jason Lutes, I absolutely loved the spell generation! Hilarious! The aforementioned Esward starts with “Winda’s Sigil of Sight” and “Parteria’s Enveloping Despair”.
Love it! I’m going to run Freebooters at Carnage Con in Vermont next month, I’d be interested in strategies for making a good one-shot out of it.
Just my two cents, but if it was that fun to make those random characters for you, imagine how your players will react!
I think you should do character gen at your one shots. It’s a pretty quick process and helps a lot with the theme/tone of the game.
If I were a player I would love that. And it only takes a short time to do.
John Love my concern is mainly that with just one book, a whole table needing to look things up will slow it down a lot.
Michael Sands check out maezars posts a couple back here. There are a brilliant couple sheets to print out that would help with this. Or just print those relevant 4 pages from the PDF of the game
Carnage Con…. TEMPTING!!!
I can’t make it to Carnage after all, had to cancel the games I was going to run. Unforeseen family stuff. Not tragic or anything, just annoying!