Looking for ideas on making 0-level characters work

[vivsavage]

I love Warhammer's tradition of starting out with a complete nobody (rat catcher, barkeep, etc) and advancing to fully fledged adventurer. C&C assumes you begin at 1st level as an adventurer (as most games do). I'm looking for ideas on how to make the WH style work for C&C. In other words, you start out as a 0-level rat catcher or blacksmith or barkeep and have a handful of unintended adventures, then graduate to a 1st level adventurer. I would like to make it 'organic', meaning that you become the adventuring class that seems appropriate to the stuff you experienced in your 0-level adventures. So the barkeep who finds a scroll and manages to cast a spell from it becomes a wizard, and the blacksmith who builds shelters becomes a ranger, etc.

Ideas?

[kreider204]

I'm not sure myself, but this might serve as an easily convertible example:

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/2 ... +made&it=1

[Rigon]

Do a search of the forum. Someone had a system posted a good long while ago for zero level PCs. I don't recall who it was or what they had done, but I know it was around.

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[Rigon]

I just did a quick search and found this thread by LD. It might be what you are looking for.

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[Omote]

Not exactly sure this is what you are looking for, but these are my rules for 0-level characters. It's not like WH, but it works for C&C.
https://sites.google.com/site/advancedc ... ons-for-cc

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[Aramis]

this is the original TSR module that did that:

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/1 ... nt-1e?it=1