Lux Adversaria: Modern Characters
Modern Characters is a resource designed to help you create interesting characters for your roleplaying game settings. Whether you're exploring the gritty world of crime, navigating the high-stakes shadows of espionage, exploring the chilling atmosphere of horror, unraveling mysteries, or weaving tales of romance, this book offers a collection of traits to inspire and enhance your roleplaying.
This book isn't meant to be a comprehensive catalog of every possible trait. Instead, it's a broad sampling of the possibilities, intended to spark your imagination and provide you with the tools to craft memorable characters. Each trait listed here can serve as a foundation upon which you can build complex personalities and intricate backstories, adding realism to your games.
As you explore the traits within this book, consider how they can influence your characters' actions, motivations, and interactions. Use them to create heroes and villains, allies and adversaries, each with their own unique strengths, weaknesses, quirks, and values. Let this book be your guide as you bring your modern-era roleplaying worlds to life.
Lux Adversaria is a zine/series of informal essays where I dig into different elements of roleplaying. Adversaria refers to "miscellaneous writings" in Latin, representing my personal collections of notes and reflections. The term lux adversaria" roughly translates to "light of adversity," reflecting my exploration of challenges and difficult topics.
This book has been remastered and expanded to align with The Simple Approach, enhancing its ease of use while staying fully compatible with The Foragers Guild and all other Lightspress games. It’s also designed to be system-agnostic, allowing you to integrate it seamlessly with any roleplaying system or setting using the free conversion rules available in the Lightspress Handbook.
Navigating This Book
Role in the Story: Describes how each character contributes to the story, whether as a protagonist, antagonist, or supporting character, and their significance to the plot's development.
Background and History: Provides insight into each character's past, upbringing, and any significant events that have shaped who they are and their current circumstances in the adventure.
Personality Traits: Outlines the key characteristics and traits that define each character's personality, including their demeanor, temperament, and behavior.
Physical Traits: Describes the physical appearance of each character, like their height, build, hair color, eye color, and any distinguishing features or attributes.
Motivations and Goals: Explores what drives each character and the objectives they seek to achieve throughout the adventure, whether they are driven by ambition, love, revenge, or other desires.
Strengths and Weaknesses: Highlights the abilities, skills, and qualities that make each character formidable or vulnerable, as well as any limitations or flaws they possess.
Quirks and Habits: Details the unique idiosyncrasies, mannerisms, and behaviors that make each character memorable and add depth to their portrayal.
Values and Beliefs: Examines the principles, ideals, and moral compass that guide each character's decisions and actions, revealing their ethical standpoint and worldview.
Conflict Style: Explores how each character approaches and handles conflict, whether they confront challenges head-on, avoid confrontation, or seek diplomatic resolutions.
70 pages. PDF and epub files included.
Modern Characters is a resource designed to help you create interesting characters for your roleplaying game settings. Whether you're exploring the gritty world of crime, navigating the high-stakes shadows of espionage, exploring the chilling atmosphere of horror, unraveling mysteries, or weaving tales of romance, this book offers a collection of traits to inspire and enhance your roleplaying.
This book isn't meant to be a comprehensive catalog of every possible trait. Instead, it's a broad sampling of the possibilities, intended to spark your imagination and provide you with the tools to craft memorable characters. Each trait listed here can serve as a foundation upon which you can build complex personalities and intricate backstories, adding realism to your games.
As you explore the traits within this book, consider how they can influence your characters' actions, motivations, and interactions. Use them to create heroes and villains, allies and adversaries, each with their own unique strengths, weaknesses, quirks, and values. Let this book be your guide as you bring your modern-era roleplaying worlds to life.
Lux Adversaria is a zine/series of informal essays where I dig into different elements of roleplaying. Adversaria refers to "miscellaneous writings" in Latin, representing my personal collections of notes and reflections. The term lux adversaria" roughly translates to "light of adversity," reflecting my exploration of challenges and difficult topics.
This book has been remastered and expanded to align with The Simple Approach, enhancing its ease of use while staying fully compatible with The Foragers Guild and all other Lightspress games. It’s also designed to be system-agnostic, allowing you to integrate it seamlessly with any roleplaying system or setting using the free conversion rules available in the Lightspress Handbook.
Navigating This Book
Role in the Story: Describes how each character contributes to the story, whether as a protagonist, antagonist, or supporting character, and their significance to the plot's development.
Background and History: Provides insight into each character's past, upbringing, and any significant events that have shaped who they are and their current circumstances in the adventure.
Personality Traits: Outlines the key characteristics and traits that define each character's personality, including their demeanor, temperament, and behavior.
Physical Traits: Describes the physical appearance of each character, like their height, build, hair color, eye color, and any distinguishing features or attributes.
Motivations and Goals: Explores what drives each character and the objectives they seek to achieve throughout the adventure, whether they are driven by ambition, love, revenge, or other desires.
Strengths and Weaknesses: Highlights the abilities, skills, and qualities that make each character formidable or vulnerable, as well as any limitations or flaws they possess.
Quirks and Habits: Details the unique idiosyncrasies, mannerisms, and behaviors that make each character memorable and add depth to their portrayal.
Values and Beliefs: Examines the principles, ideals, and moral compass that guide each character's decisions and actions, revealing their ethical standpoint and worldview.
Conflict Style: Explores how each character approaches and handles conflict, whether they confront challenges head-on, avoid confrontation, or seek diplomatic resolutions.
70 pages. PDF and epub files included.
Modern Characters is a resource designed to help you create interesting characters for your roleplaying game settings. Whether you're exploring the gritty world of crime, navigating the high-stakes shadows of espionage, exploring the chilling atmosphere of horror, unraveling mysteries, or weaving tales of romance, this book offers a collection of traits to inspire and enhance your roleplaying.
This book isn't meant to be a comprehensive catalog of every possible trait. Instead, it's a broad sampling of the possibilities, intended to spark your imagination and provide you with the tools to craft memorable characters. Each trait listed here can serve as a foundation upon which you can build complex personalities and intricate backstories, adding realism to your games.
As you explore the traits within this book, consider how they can influence your characters' actions, motivations, and interactions. Use them to create heroes and villains, allies and adversaries, each with their own unique strengths, weaknesses, quirks, and values. Let this book be your guide as you bring your modern-era roleplaying worlds to life.
Lux Adversaria is a zine/series of informal essays where I dig into different elements of roleplaying. Adversaria refers to "miscellaneous writings" in Latin, representing my personal collections of notes and reflections. The term lux adversaria" roughly translates to "light of adversity," reflecting my exploration of challenges and difficult topics.
This book has been remastered and expanded to align with The Simple Approach, enhancing its ease of use while staying fully compatible with The Foragers Guild and all other Lightspress games. It’s also designed to be system-agnostic, allowing you to integrate it seamlessly with any roleplaying system or setting using the free conversion rules available in the Lightspress Handbook.
Navigating This Book
Role in the Story: Describes how each character contributes to the story, whether as a protagonist, antagonist, or supporting character, and their significance to the plot's development.
Background and History: Provides insight into each character's past, upbringing, and any significant events that have shaped who they are and their current circumstances in the adventure.
Personality Traits: Outlines the key characteristics and traits that define each character's personality, including their demeanor, temperament, and behavior.
Physical Traits: Describes the physical appearance of each character, like their height, build, hair color, eye color, and any distinguishing features or attributes.
Motivations and Goals: Explores what drives each character and the objectives they seek to achieve throughout the adventure, whether they are driven by ambition, love, revenge, or other desires.
Strengths and Weaknesses: Highlights the abilities, skills, and qualities that make each character formidable or vulnerable, as well as any limitations or flaws they possess.
Quirks and Habits: Details the unique idiosyncrasies, mannerisms, and behaviors that make each character memorable and add depth to their portrayal.
Values and Beliefs: Examines the principles, ideals, and moral compass that guide each character's decisions and actions, revealing their ethical standpoint and worldview.
Conflict Style: Explores how each character approaches and handles conflict, whether they confront challenges head-on, avoid confrontation, or seek diplomatic resolutions.
70 pages. PDF and epub files included.