I can safely say that this year's version of the #CharacterCreationChallenge was a success!
Unlike last year, where I bailed less than halfway through, I powered through things and completed all 31 days.
Better yet, it appears the engagement with the community was up this year. Historically, the blog posts don't get much traffic. Of all my previous years, a conversion of the GI Joe character, Low-Light Pew-Pew cracked my October-September annual Top 20 most popular posts for the year. This time around, four cracked my Top 25 for 2024-25, and at least two (Day 1 - Poptart of Doom and Day 3 - Yin-Yan, Idiot Rodian) might stay on the whole year.
I am relying on the fabulousness which is Blogger data, but old school methods still drove the most traffic to the blog.
Of all the sites I posted to, the top four sites that sent people to me:
- RPG.net
- Bluesky
I enjoyed making characters for a number of zines I've acquired through Kickstarter, and a FLGS I frequent when I visit my mom. Having to actually watch the original Disney cartoons to create a Year One Steamboat Willie was enjoyable as well
One of the original intents of the challenge is to have an activity for the doldrums of winter, although pre-gaming and planning is certainly not vilified. I have a half-dozen pictures of potential Gamma World characters hiding in my drafts for 2026, and I think my focus might tie with statting out recent minis I'll paint over next Fall. The end of the year is as crazy with my new job as it was with my old, and worst case, I'll still have a huge pile of West End Star Wars minis that I can work on.
Links to all my characters:
Thanks to TardisCaptain for helming another year of the challenge, and I can't wait until January 2026 rolls around!
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