Using Tabletop Role-Playing Games to Build Character with Benji Richards

Did you ever struggle to find weaknesses in your characters? Do you know the traits that make a strong elven character--beyond the pointy ears and looking outrageously beautiful? Don't all gnomes look alike?

The first step when starting a novel, in any genre, is to build up your main characters. There are lists of questions you use to interrogate your characters to get to know them, but for some writers, this creates a rabbit hole to race down at the expense of focusing on the story.

Author B. A. Richards will help you explore an alternative route, using TTRPG character creation tools to fill your character out (and yes, this works for all genres, not just fantasy). Join them in rolling up a sample character and showing how stats, character traits, skills and potential weaknesses can produce a character you’ll be aching to write about.

• In-Class Writing Lift: Light
• Homework: None
• Workshopping Drafts: None