Characters: To Catch a Thief Post 1
Characters: To Catch a Thief Post 1 -- About 5 Months ago I posted a post called "Skullduggery" which was a fast table about strange thieves guild. So, I'm staying with that thief motif for the end of 2023. The concept form this post hopefully a series is making characters in various systems all with the same or similar themes. This is to explore the differences of the systems, not only in character creation but in how they interact with the player in that initial fist touch phase that character creation often represents. Why Theves? Rouges? or whatever the specific system calls them. First off almost every system has some version of the rouge archetype. It's reliable. Secondly, Thieves are generally skill monkeys. As in they get a lot of "stuff" early in games that they can do; because of this they're more interesting to build at low levels than say Mr. /Mrs. standard fighter. Third and final, they're generally non magical, so I can avoid also...