(Artwork by Ashley St. Clair)

So a while back, I started taking part in the character creation challenge. As a quick refresh, it was a challenge (one that I think maybe originated on Tumblr, of all places) to create a TTRPG character for a different system every day of the week, for all of January. At the time last year, I had missed out on the challenge proper, and instead resolved to make one character a week; I did this knowing that my own persistent writer’s block, my busy work schedule and my desire to include actual backstory for each would combine to make my progress quite slow. Anyway, last year I made an excellent starting, creating five characters for a variety of systems…and then I stopped.