Walkabout Character Generation - Phase 0: Birth Circumstances
For the next few posts, I'm going to present the character generation system that I've been working on for Walkabout. With the death of G+, I haven't been getting a lot of feedback or comments on my posts, but if anyone out there is still reading, any responses to this series of posts would be ,much appreciated. The web of relationships that define a person start to weave together before they are born. Relationships between places, individuals, and cultures provide the initial nodes that a person spins into their identity. It is into these foundational nodes that new relationship threads can be entwined, as a person finds their place in the world. Understanding a Wayfarer character in Walkabout begins by learning who their parents were and the place where they were born. Those called to be Wayfarers come from all parts of the world, many from the shanties clinging to the outskirts of the ruined cities or the surviving rural towns in the reclaimed wilderness, ...