SPOILER ALERT TO MY ADVENTURERS! The following post contains spoilers for the up and coming Vaesen One-Shot. You may want to avoid this post and join me in a future one.
In the initial post I pointed out that Free League do not provide any pregenerated characters to use with the introductory mystery The Dance of Dreams in the Vaesen Rulebook.
Which does put a bit of extra work on me if I want to run this as a single session one-shot, maximising our time playing Vaesen and not spending a large part of the session creating characters.
“There should not be more than one player character of the same archetype in the group.” Page 18, Vaesen Rulebook.
The ten archetypes in Vaesen are:
- ACADEMIC
- DOCTOR
- HUNTER
- OCCULTIST
- OFFICER
- PRIEST
- PRIVATE DETECTIVE
- SERVANT
- VAGABOND
- WRITER
Sadly in the rulebook there is no suggested party make up for The Dance of Dreams. In an ideal world I’d create all ten archetypes for the players to choose from. And in the long term this is something I can aim for. However with current time restraints I’m creating just a subset.
Each precon character will have a couple of areas on the character sheet, character name, and relationship to the other player characters, left blank. These will be filled in by the player on the day. It will help personalise and make the precon character feel a little like their own.
Following the steps above were pretty easy. I was able to create an academic, doctor, hunter, and occultist relatively quickly compared to say creating a D&D character.
Having what is basically a template for each archetype, tied in with a simplified character sheet makes such a big difference. I think the hardest choice was deciding the age of the character! The age chosen decides how many points you get to spend on attributes and skills.
I dare say that if there were enough copies of the rulebook that you could almost have players creating characters in less that half an hour! Which would make it “feasible” to run a single session one-shot with the players creating characters on the day.
I’m hoping interested folks can access this link. My Vaesen Precons. It should be setup so that anyone with the link can view them.