[Tabletop Shenanigans] So, my group is starting a new game and a lot of us were struggling to come up with character concepts. I'm really glad I went "hey, maybe we should do a session zero to plan characters and discuss expectations" and that actually went really well!
part of the struggle is that the setting is very different than a lot of what we've done in the past. Namely that we've done a lot of high fantasy but the GM this time wants it to be more urban fantasy almost cyberpunk. That part is neat, and not where I struggled with a character concept
where I struggled was that I was having a lot of difficulty coming up with why the fuck my character would care. I literally only came up with "I want to play a wizard" (which wound up not panning out because I still can't wrap my head around pathfinder wizards for some reason) and not what their day job would be or why they would get entangled int his
I'm playing an Alchemist instead, with a different subtype than what I was using before. Said Alchemist is a bartender, because mixing drinks is totally a type of chemistry right? (and the fire bombs are being flavoured into molotov cocktails, helped by discoveries into glass foot and optional cone spread instead of just splash damage)
it's also a cute twist on "you all meet at the tavern" in which one of the PCs is the bartender XD
and this feels more like my character is trying to live their life and is getting dragged into conspiracy nonsense
(tbh I did have another idea for a con artist rogue before, but the setting is... almost utopian at a glance, with extremely low crime rates. Which was frustrating because our party is super magic-heavy and I wanted to do something different but I'm glad I landed on the bartender)
but yeah we wound up talking a bit more about what we were making without saying too too much, more about the setting, hashed some things out (one of the players ended up changing things about their mushroom man to be poison-based so that it'd be an issue for people to try and lick him to get high, for example, we all thought that was funny),
where we all are economically, ect.
also, tbh I struggle with pathfinder wizards because they are SO RIDICULOUSLY SPOILED FOR CHOICE when it comes to spells. It's a good problem to have but then I stare at the massive list of options and go "... wat"
I'm thinking my bartender is going to be a no-nonsense dude just trying to live his life, trying to temper conspiracy craziness, but gets dragged into it all anyway
maybe a divorcee, not sure if I want him to have had kids or if I want it to have been amicable or not