S1E3: Character Creation - Including Weakness

06/22/22 • 25 min

Up Your RPG - Helping you up your roleplaying game

In this episode, we're continuing to talk about character creation. Today we’re discuss building characters with weaknesses, and how flaws can help improve role playing, both for players and for GMs.

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S1E2: Character Creation - Where to Find Inspiration

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In this episode, we're talking about something that almost all players and GMs deal with some point, if not frequently... and that is finding inspiration for a character. It's a process that I personally really enjoy, and I'm super excited to discuss with today's panel.

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S1E4: Metagaming in Character Creation: Min/Maxing

In this episode, we're dipping our toes into the deep pool of metagaming. It will certainly be a regular topic on this show, but to kick it off, we're continuing the character creation theme and discussing min/maxing. What is it? Is it always bad, or can it be useful? How can GMs discourage it, and work with or around overly optimized combat.