Born Of An Atom Bomb

Around the same time that my wife and I were informed that she won an ENnie, I was leafing through a friend’s copy of Hollowpoint. Hollowpoint is an impeccably streamlined RPG, based around hired-killer movies. It was written to be pulled out and played quickly, and as such, gets to the heart of the matter in terms of character creation with a speed and efficiency that is, well, worth stealing.

I mean, emulating. Worth emulating.

While there’s the traditional dice elements, the bulk of character creation boils down to five questions. Five incredibly useful questions. Here they are with the genre-specific elements removed:

1. What visual element makes you stand out?
2. What would you never do?
3. What’s an object that is precious to you?
4. Why do you love what you do?
5. Why are you good at what you do?

More on those five questions, and why they’re important, over at the blog.