There I was, minding my own business, when a random Redditor on /r/rpg/ made me aware of the Character Creation Challenge. The TL;DR is that it’s a gamer take on the “New Year, New You” bullshit, wherein one creates and posts a new player character for every day of January.

Those of you who’ve known me for a while can probably see where this is going.

While I have maintained that level of output for a single system before (typically prepping pre-gens for convention LARPs), I think that for my first time out of the gate with this challenge, I’m going for a little more variance. Here are my self-imposed rules, which I reserve the right to violate at any time:

• I’ll only create characters for games which I’ve run, played (play-by-post counts), playtested during development, or contributed to. Generally speaking, I’ll try to match editions, and will give preference to earlier editions, but I may need to bend this if I can’t otherwise comply with the next rule.
• I must own a physical copy of the core rulebook.
• I will use only material from the core book.
• No recycling characters I’ve played (though I may recycle pre-gens I’ve written for other people if they sufficiently amuse me).
• I’ll build each character according to rules as written. If random elements are mandatory, I’ll roll those out as written. If random elements are optional, I’ll use them to the greatest extent that makes sense.
• Each day will feature a new game (except for one short series of deliberately-planned violations at the end of the month).

Let’s see what happens.