A Life Well Lived from Cubicle 7 adds a lifepath style character creation system to your games of D&D. Check it out!
Every gamer should create a character via a lifepath at least once. It’s a rite of passage of sorts, hearkening back to the frontier days of RPGs, when in certain games (like Traveller) you could have your character die in character creation. You’d roll certain events depending on the kind of character you’d make, and you might end up dead.
And while that hasn’t been the case for a while, lifepath systems are a fantastic way to get at a character. Because you’re kind of meeting them along with the rest of the group as you figure out what happens to them. People love to roll dice and figure out what that means. Which is why I’m excited for Cubicle 7’s new A Life Well Lived, which is a lifepath character creation supplement for D&D.
A Life Well Lived – Lifepaths For Your D&D Characters
In a nutshell, lifepaths work like this: you follow your character through different “key events and life stages” that paint a picture of who they are, and why they’re on an adventure. You might learn about your family, or about a meaningful event in your past – you might even find a goal or a cool narrative hook to play with.
And in A Life Well Lived, Cubicle 7 invites you to explore who your character was before they picked up a sword. You can, in essence, start roleplaying them as you roll to see what happens.
But it’s not just a lifepath system. A Life Well Lived also adds in rules for what to do between adventures. You’ll find downtime activities like cooking meals and crafting items, as well as rules for your own home base or pursuing personal projects.
“For many D&D players, character creation often stops at race, class, and a paragraph of backstory scribbled five minutes before the first session. You know the beats: tragic childhood, mysterious mentor, maybe a revenge quest. It works, but it rarely lives at the table.
The Lifepath System in A Life Well Lived is designed to change that. Instead of treating backstory as static flavour text, it turns your character’s life into an evolving narrative that shapes who they are before, during, and after their adventuring career.”
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It’s also a great tool for those of you who think in character arcs. And for those who want to plot out the character’s life even once they retire from adventuring. If you really want to get deep in the woods, if you want to get truly blorbo-pilled about your little guy, A Life Well Lived is the book for you.
You can find it at the link below!
And may your own personal blorbo be as weird and little as you like!
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