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<blockquote data-quote="evilbob" data-source="post: 6208883" data-attributes="member: 9789">One of the best things about Numenera is the bit toward the back about making your own descriptors and foci and whatnot.&nbsp; I absolutely have assumed that we'd do that for every character, and if there's an existing one in the book that can work instead:&nbsp; that's a bonus.&nbsp; That said:&nbsp; it's good to hear that &quot;The Strange&quot; is following in similar footsteps.&nbsp; It may be worth picking up the player's guide at the very least just to have some more interesting ideas for options (or the core book to also get some setting ideas and creatures).However, one of the things that's started to work with our group - and seems pretty platform-independent - is starting character creation by intentionally not talking about someone's class/role/job.&nbsp; I'll have to make a separate post about this at some point, but basically we're trying to define the character first, and then shoehorn it into whatever &quot;class&quot; works best, modifying as necessary.&nbsp; This is sort of the opposite of nearly every game we've ever played, where character creation starts with your role, and then you sort of shoehorn your character concept into whatever class you picked, modifying as necessary.&nbsp; Numenera just seems a little bit more receptive to this, since there are only 3 classes, and the differences between them are relatively slight (and extremely easy to modify).&nbsp; Heck, they could have made only one class without much issue.&nbsp; They nearly did.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="evilbob, post: 6208883, member: 9789"] One of the best things about Numenera is the bit toward the back about making your own descriptors and foci and whatnot. I absolutely have assumed that we'd do that for every character, and if there's an existing one in the book that can work instead: that's a bonus. That said: it's good to hear that "The Strange" is following in similar footsteps. It may be worth picking up the player's guide at the very least just to have some more interesting ideas for options (or the core book to also get some setting ideas and creatures). However, one of the things that's started to work with our group - and seems pretty platform-independent - is starting character creation by intentionally not talking about someone's class/role/job. I'll have to make a separate post about this at some point, but basically we're trying to define the character first, and then shoehorn it into whatever "class" works best, modifying as necessary. This is sort of the opposite of nearly every game we've ever played, where character creation starts with your role, and then you sort of shoehorn your character concept into whatever class you picked, modifying as necessary. Numenera just seems a little bit more receptive to this, since there are only 3 classes, and the differences between them are relatively slight (and extremely easy to modify). Heck, they could have made only one class without much issue. They nearly did. [/QUOTE]

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