{"id":1982,"date":"2015-09-19T13:51:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T20:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2016-10-28T19:20:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T02:20:49","slug":"fantasy-party-quick-start-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/fantasy-party-quick-start-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Party Quick-Start Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warehouse23.com\/products\/SJG37-2683\">latest issue of Pyramid<\/a> magazine has another article on &#8220;pointless&#8221; character creation, this time for Monster Hunters, putting me in that frame of mind &#8212; so, I whipped up an archetypical fantasy party (at the &#8220;Heroic&#8221; level) using my own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/series\/quick-start\/\">quick-start rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?ddownload=2785\" title=\"The Full Party\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ddownload-link id-2785 ext-pdf\">The Full Party<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?ddownload=1977\" title=\"Cleric\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ddownload-link id-1977 ext-pdf\">Cleric<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?ddownload=1978\" title=\"Fighter\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ddownload-link id-1978 ext-pdf\">Fighter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?ddownload=1979\" title=\"Thief\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ddownload-link id-1979 ext-pdf\">Thief<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/?ddownload=1980\" title=\"Wizard\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ddownload-link id-1980 ext-pdf\">Wizard<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even the magic used here is quick-start &#8212; super simple effects based on a straightforward Fatigue Point cost. I was actually picturing the kid from that Pyramid issue&#8217;s cover (it&#8217;s great!), hanging out with a few of her friends and looking for something to do, and how they could all jump into a game as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>These PCs aren&#8217;t fleshed-out characters with full back stories and exhaustive lists of skills&#8230; but that&#8217;s kind of the point. What they <em>are<\/em> is a fully-playable fantasy party that can immediately hit the ground running, all created in just over a half hour. If I weren&#8217;t making all four myself one at a time, if there were four players all creating concurrently, that time could maybe be halved.<\/p>\n<p>So, enjoy, let me know what you think&#8230; and get out there and play some GURPS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The latest issue of Pyramid magazine has another article on &#8220;pointless&#8221; character creation, this time for Monster Hunters, putting me in that frame of mind &#8212; so, I whipped up an archetypical fantasy party (at the &#8220;Heroic&#8221; level) using my <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/fantasy-party-quick-start-characters\/\" title=\"Fantasy Party Quick-Start Characters\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,6],"tags":[],"series":[17],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gming","category-gurps","category-rpgs","series-quick-start"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2802,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions\/2802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/gamegeekery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}