Friday Night Game - Shadows of Esteren Character Creation, Part I

[jkahane]

As mentioned in a couple of earlier blog entries, the Friday night gaming group began the Shadows of Esteren game campaign with the start of character generation. So I figured that I would go into the session from Friday night somewhat.

For those who don't know, Shadows of Esteren is a mediaeval fantasy roleplaying game with horrific and gothic

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[ext_1467864]

Interesting group but this kind of numerous brotherhood is always difficult to canalize. I'm curious to discover their journeys.

Otherwise I think we should not talk too much instead of numbers during the creation, at least until the ways. The player think about is characters and this determines the values. After comes the domains and disciplines. If you think with numbers you will NOT obtain the player you really wanted.

My point of view.

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[jkahane]

As you say, the group is an interesting mix of characters, though it remains to be seen how they'll interact and whether there will be conflict between some of the characters.

It is always difficult to put a group together of six player characters, especially in a game system where social, political, and cultural differences can occur as they are set up in Shadows of Esteren, but in some ways, that makes it more interesting for me. :)

I agree with you on the final point. The Friday night group was much more oriented around the backgrounds and personalities of their characters, and it shows in terms of how these characters look and feel with their numbers relating back to the history/personality material. The Sunday gamers, on the other hand, based their characters much more on the game numbers than on the history/personality elements, and a mon avis, it shows.