A Starfinder 1e character is comprised of five elements: a core concept, race, theme, feat, and class.

So, when making a Pirate Borg character, you’ve got one of two options: letting fate decide everything for you, aka rolling on each table and letting the dice decide, or when asked to either roll or choose, read every option and pick what fits best!

Fortunately for players interested in Shadowdark RPG, there is a vibrant digital community of players and Game Masters eager to share their passion for this wonderful game.

So, you came to StartPlaying and chose Shadowrun? Smart choice. Let’s forge a character that can be a badass in the Sixth World. Making a character in Shadowrun is not just about skill sets, it’s also creating a personality and crafting a story. I’ll help you through the process and I’ll sprinkle in some StartPlaying game links to help you find a group and get playing.

JRPG is a notoriously difficult and occasionally offensive genre to pin down. Though the term was originally an acronym for “Japanese Roleplaying Game,” meant to delineate between American exploration-centric computer RPGs and the flashy turn-based console RPGs often produced by Japanese game studios, the enormous swath of media that the term now encompasses isn’t easily constrained to a core set of rules or narrative conceits.

Long ago, the world of Avatar was limited to D&D homebrews. Then, everything changed, when Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game was released. Only the Game Master, master of the Powered by the Apocalypse system, could run it. But when the players needed him most, he vanished.

It all began with Vincent and Meguey Baker’s Apocalypse World, a roleplaying game set in a Mad Max-style apocalyptic wasteland that casts players as survivors trying to build a life amidst scarcity, external and internal threats, and a mysterious force known as the world’s psychic maelstrom. Released in 2010, it received critical and popular acclaim, numerous awards, and was hailed as an innovative leap forward for independent roleplaying game design. But Apocalypse World’s legacy lies in its open invitation to other designers to publish games inspired by it.

You step out of the ornithopter. The sun immediately warms your face. Sand lightly pelts your skin on any areas not covered. You could be here for any reason: A member of house Atreides (a family of well meaning strong proud folk) , an emissary from House Harkonnen (fighters and scoundrels), a spy from an unknown House, a representative of the Bene Gesserit (seers). Your reasons are yours. Your skills have not let you down. You pat your trusty knife and turn silently to your comrades. With small nods and skills of their own you head toward the metal city of Arrakeen ready to meet your destiny.