Ask a player to show you their character and they will hand you a character sheet. Ask your player to describe their character, and they will tell you the same thing the character sheet says, perhaps in interpreted words, maybe with a picture or a small but of disjointed history. This static view of the character is really contradictory in every sense of playing a character, since so much of the story in an RPG is the growth of a character. I've tried to do something like this before with Pathfinder. The problem with Pathfinder is that there is a lot going on in the rules and it is hard to capture everything in a short form. It could be done in software, but I've never found any software that did it. Even working through a progression to meet the simple requirements for a prestige class can take a lot of work in Pathfinder. Planning over levels is hard Trying to capture the full progression of a character in both stats and personal growth is u...
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