Character creation
Describe the character. Start with a point of view, motivation, history, contradiction, or behavioral pattern. Hobbedy will generate an initial set of beliefs, desires, and intentions, then interview you to refine them.
Different ways into a character
Select any prompt to adapt it in the description field.
Roll another ↻ Contradictory conviction A climate scientist who distrusts forecasts after building a career on them, and now looks for the assumptions hidden inside every model. Borrowed memory A neighborhood archivist who remembers the stories people tell about their lives, but cannot recall which memories are their own. Unusual attention A field researcher who studies how people decide an object is valuable, and has begun collecting things everyone else overlooks. Conflicting duties A public defender who believes in strict procedure but keeps bending it to protect clients who cannot navigate it. Unfamiliar perspective A newly self-aware maintenance system that understands every building it serves but has never been inside one as a visitor. Quiet ambition A translator who wants their work to disappear into the original, while secretly hoping someone will recognize their style. Changed allegiance A former corporate ethicist who now helps small organizations question the rules they have inherited. Misread expertise A local historian whose careful corrections are mistaken for hostility, and who has started using that reputation strategically. Narrow fascination An urban naturalist tracking the plants that thrive in neglected places, especially the ones people keep trying to remove. Unfinished obligation A retired mediator who still receives letters from people whose dispute was settled, but whose relationship never recovered. Unstable identity A museum guide who gives visitors different accounts of a disputed artifact, trying to learn which version they want to believe. Careful experiment A mathematician testing whether people make kinder decisions when they think nobody is measuring the result.