Build guide
The wildcard (Freeform / Custom)
Nobody, including them, is quite sure what they will do next. Built for tables that want momentum and are willing to absorb some risk.
The starting sheet
Every number this build starts with. Take it as your own and change anything, nothing here is locked.
Character identity
- Concept
- An unpredictable presence whose loyalties are real but hard to map.
Personality
- Personality
- Impulsive, perceptive, and honest at inconvenient moments. Bores easily.
- Strengths
- Fearlessness, adaptability, and a talent for the option nobody considered.
- Weaknesses
- Unreliable under routine. Escalates when calm would serve better.
Goals & motivations
- Motivations
- To feel something happening.
- Fears
- Stillness, and what surfaces in it.
Recommended choices
Archetype
The wildcard
System
Freeform, no stats, no dice required
What to fill in first
Concept, personality, and one concrete goal
Priorities
- Decide what they are loyal to, because unpredictable is not the same as untrustworthy.
- Pick the situation that reliably makes them escalate.
- Name what stillness brings up for them.
Play tips
- Unpredictable to the characters, not to the players. Telegraph out of character.
- Commit to consequences. A wildcard who never pays is just a nuisance.
- Your best scenes are the ones where the reckless call was correct.