From the introduction: So you’ve decided to play a Role-Playing Game, maybe you have even played your first game using a character handed to you like some arcane mystery on a scrappy piece of paper - a treasured map to adventure. Whichever applies, the time has come when you are ready to take that big step and create a character of your own, making your mark on the campaign world with your own unique creation, but where do you begin? User summary: The process described remains system and genre neutral, though the document does assume the game system will use experience points to track character progress.