You’ve never heard of My Lennium Falcorn? It’s the friendship that made the Magic Run in less than twelve sparkles. Welcome to Essential Builds, the blog that punches popular culture icons into the hyperspace that is Essence20. I’m Ryan...
Normally Essential Builds turns popular culture icons into Essence20 Player Characters. We’re doing something different this time. This is my first PC for a fully casual Essence20 campaign. I’m not playtesting or promoting or even GMing. I’m building a...
From days of long ago, from uncharted regions of the universe, comes a legend. The legend of Pidge, Voltron’s only pilot with the fashion sense to coordinate his uniform with his lion. Welcome to Essential Builds, the blog that...
Welcome to Essential Builds, the blog that mashes up popular culture characters with Essence20 rules. Sometimes, those popular culture characters have already been mashed up, leaving us with some kind of science-fantasy mutant. I’m Ryan Costello, one of the...
Cue John Williams’ The Raiders March! Welcome to Essential Builds, the blog that puts popular culture characters into an Essence20 Player Character museum. I’m Ryan Costello, one of the designers of the Essence20 system and an author on the G.I....
With the Superbowl this Sunday*, it’s time to carry on the tradition of The Fridge, Capt Grid-Iron, Centiback, and Laceface by bringing a football player to the world of Hasbro’s action and adventure brands. Welcome to Essential Builds, the...
It’s time to buzz the tower. Welcome to Essential Builds, the blog that takes popular culture icons and inverts them into Essence20 Player Characters. I’m Ryan Costello, one of the designers of the Essence20 system and an author on...
PCs change depending on who’s building them, but justice is justice. Welcome to Essential Builds, the blog that shifts the shape of popular culture characters with a bucketful of Essence20 options. I’m Ryan Costello, one of the designers of...
Welcome to Essential Builds. It’s a builder blog, in an essential world. Adapting plastic, with statistics. I’m Ryan Costello, one of the designers of the Essence20 system and an author on the G.I. JOE, Transformers, and My Little Pony...
“It’s December 15th,” I thought with some fear. “I need a build idea for Christmas. It’s practically here!” Welcome to Essential Builds, the blog that steals popular culture icons to give the gift of Essence20 Player Characters all year round....