Too Many Names

I have been running the Star Guard campaign for less than two years (though plotting it for longer than that), and in that time I have created 161 characters. That includes every character important enough to have name; there are many more unnamed "extras".

To put this in some context: the original Strikeforce story had around 400 named characters before I gave up counting, and many more than that by the end.

Some of those characters are extremely minor, and I could sum up their role in a couple of sentences. Others have pretty detailed backgrounds and play major, or at least recurring minor, parts in the story. Eventually, I'll have all of their background written down. But to remind myself how much I've still got to write, I've made a list, the Encyclopaedia Galactica Biographical Index.

In a future blog post, I will apologise for my compulsion to use awful puns in character names. But not today.