Solo RPG - Ironsworn - Campaign Setup - CHARACTER CREATION

We need a character to kick off our adventures in Ironsworn, the solo RPG by Shawn Tomkin. The dice are in an odd mood and the character that emerges forms an unlikely bond thanks to their whimsy.
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[@abethecop1]

Thought you were wearing a Darkthrone shirt but still always happy when I see metal scene crossover with TTRPG scene :D

[@bluejclay]

Love seeing people make characters in ironsworn. Sometimes for me worldbuilding and character creation can be more fun than playing!

[@killtenratsrpg]

Huge problem, I suffer from chronic "restarteritis" in both video games and tabletop games. At least with that aspect, recording a playthrough is a nice bit of therapy to prevent me from starting over as soon as a new idea pops into my head!

[@stAzkrunchyinmilk]

Late to the party on the video, but starting my first game of Ironsworn and found this searching on how to build a world/character. So far i am enjoying the storytelling prompt side of the game. Looking forward to the rest of this series

[@killtenratsrpg]

Hey, I appreciate you taking the time to comment even if it was a long time ago. I had to step away from RUclips for a bit and got a little frustrated by that, so I wasn't answering comments like I should have. Apologies for that!
Awesome to hear that it's been helping a little with envisioning how the game plays, Ironsworn is a fantastic starting point for solo stuff, maybe THE best place with how well the rules are written.

[@akairu7413]

Great stuff!!

[@angelloramirezg091]

Lol, i like the multicam setup. Nice video n channel

[@killtenratsrpg]

Thank you very much! Glad you like it!

[@dokushiin]

Tio Artiga :D

[@killtenratsrpg]

Sounds familiar, isn't that Matt Risby's Ironsworn character?

[@dokushiin]

Yes it is. I can see a tendency of making up fantasy chars haunted by evel girl. Matthew, Trevor and you)) Matt also had infiltrator asset

[@killtenratsrpg]

@dokushiin Oh! I had no idea. That’s rather amusing and perhaps a tiny bit disturbing.

[@alex8480]

Just found out about IronSworn and am excited to look into it! Downloaded the stuff for it and am going to make a character later. Would you say this would be easy to do digitally or should I print some stuff off?

[@killtenratsrpg]

I'm not sure I'm the most qualified to answer this from personal experience, as I'm a very extreme case of "pen paper dice only" and never use VTTs. But having said that, I'm aware that there are a LOT of very cool digital tools out there to facilitate both play and journaling for Ironsworn. Iron Journal, The Augur, Roll20 (there's a good video by Doycetopian Wasteland on how to set that up), etc.
To my mind, paper & dice is still THE way to do it and there's even a "traveller's Ironsworn" printable mini-set on DriveThru RPG by Collin Klöcker, in case you need Ironsworn in wallet format, but digital is certainly possible and what many players do.

[@alex8480]

@@killtenratsrpg thanks! I ended up printing off the play kit and the assets (and sleeving them) yesterday so I'll just keep the rule book digital and use pen, paper, and dice for play

[@killtenratsrpg]

Sounds great! Hope you’re having lots of fun with it. And if / once you’re hooked and have a good grasp on it I’d definitely recommend looking into Delve and Starforged - the sci-fi variant - as the former adds the ability to generate dungeon type sites and the latter has some pretty neat additions to the rules, some of which work pretty well as reintegration back into original Ironsworn. Those are unfortunately not free but well worth every penny!