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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Autumnal" data-source="post: 9749263" data-attributes="member: 6671663">Looking at what I’ve messed around with lately, I find PCs who have great heroic potential, who may or may not have achieved any of it yet. Sometimes they’re like Neo at the start of The Matrix, with already-distinctive talents and unusual ambitions, but who’d still be hard to pick out of a lineup. Sometimes they’ve already achieved quite a bit and belong in the company of others. A fair number of these have discovered they were unwittingly serving evil ends and cut loose - think of the first couple of seasons of Alias, or Finn in the third Star Wars trilogy. Sometimes they’re well-worn veterans of many unusual and even epic adventures. Of these, some are mature, experienced, and very much up for more. Others have worn out or at least have experienced clear-cut decline from their peak and are looking for worthy conclusions to their adventuring time. All of these seem to me to be part of an overall population like an adventurousness equivalent to the Herzsprung-Russell diagram.  Others might not agree. And one-shot/short-run characters may not fit the pattern at all, but they stand out by not doing so.</blockquote>