Character Design Idea: Start with an image and build from there.
Some game systems give you a lot of control as a player over how your character is built. It often leads to wildly different characters that have little to do with each other. The freedom of say, RISUS, means that you have to somewhat explain what is good for this game and what is not. (although a chaotic game where everyone just makes a character without even a genre prompt and only after meet up might be fun as well. "Chtullu, Abraham Lincoln and Mowgli walk into a bar...")
One way I've done this is by providing images and let people pick one that will be their character (or at least an inspiration) and start from there. It also makes things go fast as you don't neccesarily need to fill in skills from the start. You can discover it through play.
You can hunt for pictures and make a Pinterest board for your game, or make other collections, but you could also find some artists on Deviantart or some of those sites who have put up entire collections of character designs. I have done exactly that, and want to share. Who knows, in follow up posts we might stat some of them out.
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Boiled Leather And Rusty Armour - Mattias Adolfsson
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