Old-School Essentials uses the classic 6 stat array of Strength, Intelligence, Wisdom, Dexterity, Constitution, and Charisma. To determine your stats, roll 3d6 down the line.

Welcome adventurer! I heard your StartPlaying GM was guiding you through the Forbidden Lands? Are you ready to go out beyond the mountains into the Ravenland? Strange creatures and terrifying beasts roam the valley! The land is cursed, but filled with treasures for those willing to roam out and take it! OK. I can’t keep doing this whole guide in character, that’s absurd. Let’s make a character for Forbidden Lands from Free League.‍

In Death in Space from Stockholm Kartel and Free League Games you are not the hero.

So you signed up to play a game of Tales from the Loop from Free League with your StartPlaying GM and you need to make a character? Well, get out your walkman, put on your leg warmers, and let’s make you a character. In Tales from the Loop you play as kids in a 1980’s that never was, dealing with bullies, trying to figure out how to ask your crush to the dance, and investigating the robots that escaped from the Loop. This is a game about solving mysteries and trying to grow up. This is a game about being a kid.

You start off in Dungeon Crawl Classics by making several 0 level characters, probably 4, and an occupation which will give you the worst weapon imaginable and hopefully a useful item. 

Post-apocalyptic stories have always fascinated us for one reason or another, maybe it’s because our history of the ends of civilizations and the terror of when ours will end, or maybe it’s just something in our collective DNA.