Backwards Character Generation

[tymothytoastman]

So I am enrolling in a new D&D 4e campaign. Now, ever since I started playing Werewolf in High School, I've been a mite bit snotty about the superiority of making a setting trump system, and stats come after character development and history, tweaking the class to the character. I've sort of decided to go in the opposite direction with this, and

Comments

[thyrsomaniac]

I have done this before; it works really well. You can end up with an interesting character that you never would have come up with going at in from the other direction

[metallian]

I go back and forth...sometimes a character pops into my head fully-formed, and then I build their stats to fit the concept. Other times I don't have the same inspiration so I look at what's cool and build a character around it. The good news is - I've had great successes with both techniques.