If you’ve never been exposed to roleplaying, it can be hard to understand exactly what it is. Thankfully, pop culture knowledge has progressed from the point where roleplaying is no longer linked with satanic ritual, and is instead linked with socially awkward nerds:
As a person who is primarily a player in roleplaying games instead of a storyteller (game master, dungeon master, etc.) I figure the best place to start is where we all start: character creation. Everyone has their own preferences when it comes to character creation, so in no way will this to be taken as a “how-to” guide. This article is merely a sort of stepping-stone and perspective-setter. The three approaches I take to creation I will call Who, Stats, and Hybrid. In this article I will do a quick overview of what each of those approaches looks like, but I will save delving into each for later articles.
Fistful of Wits 