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As promised, here's a set of 4 pregen characters for use with the free version of A Sliver of Evidence (link to that inside the post). This module is great!

diceexploder.comPregen Characters for “A Sliver of Evidence” - Dice ExploderToday I saw a Kickstarter going around for the new adventuring A Sliver of Evidence from Cairn Press. It looks sick, I love that art so much, and I immediately...
Sam D@sam.diceexploder.com

This looks sick, just read the free version on itch and I'm gonna write pregens for it so hard

I’ve had a bugbear recently about wanting adventure modules to come with pregen characters, and I'm so pleased this one inspired me to write up an example. Maybe my friends will have to hear me yelling about it less now.

I'm especially interested in discussing with people: - What might adventure modules gain and lose by having pregens? - Do these pregens feel like a good set for this module? If not, what would you want to see instead?

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Isn't this already a thing? An awful lot of OSR and actually-old adventures come with brief pre-gens. All Gumshoe adventures come with detailed pre-gens, often with backstories and interconnections. It is good though.

I am extremely sure you are correct. I was doing research at one point and found a bunch of old modules like you describe, and certainly modules in communities like Gumshoe which are outside the current day (post)OSR/Mothership may be different. But I have never... (cont)

...read a Mothership, Mausritter, Cairn, Mork Borg, etc module that came with pregens, much less pregens who felt like they belonged in the situation the adventure described. If you have examples I'd love to see them!

I've just been reading the Merry Mushmen adventures and each of those comes with I think ten adventurers who can be pre-gens, hirelings or NPCs. I'm sure there are others.