Mikalye's 19th 2016 Puzzle - A Collection of Classy Characters - Ended - Solutions Posted

Corrections/Errata

Hopefully not needed this week

Hints

• Try to figure out which edition each game is playing
• There is an acrostic in play. (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acrostic). Examine the two paragraphs carefully. Each paragraph clues one word.
• At Chour's suggestion, I have added a checker to assist solvers in validating whether they are on the right track in each part of the puzzle. You can find that here
• For Mikalye's Second Tricksy Riddle - This is eleven

Solution

The obvious thing that each character is missing is a class. Indeed, each character has recently taken on a Prestige Class. I had indicated that there was an acrostic. The first letters of each sentence in the first paragraph read PRESTIGE and in the second sentence read CLASSES. Now it was a matter of figuring out from the rules, which prestige class each character had. Usually it was a reserved feat that proved it, for example the D&D character has Secrets of Inner Strength, which is limited to a single class.
These presetige classes are:
Star Wars: Elite Trooper
Dungeons and Dragons: Loremaster
Deadlands: Texas Ranger
Living Spycraft: Field Analyst
Now the text tells you that you need to spot the anagram/acronym. Taking the Acronyms we get E-T-L-T-R-F-A. Anagramming these yields only one word, FLATTER which is the solution.

This is my nineteenth (or possibly twentieth) puzzle of 2016 after:
18th World Series
17th Seeing Things from Every Angler
16th Shaggy Dogs
15th Just Follow Directions
14th A Short Excerpt from a Longer Work
13th Listen Up
12th Analogy Chains
11th Phoney Numbers
10th Mommy, Where do I come from?
9th Let me make myself perfectly clear
8th Simple addition
7th A list of words
6th As Easy as ABC
5th Movie Stargazing
4th Queens Play
3rd Keep Your Distance
2nd Hunting Lie and Hoe
1st Mixed Bag - [Not linked and now closed as I will reuse part of this in a later puzzle]
0th History of Computer Role-Playing Games

The third image of Deadlands is missing.

Now I wish I had gotten the chance to play more P&P as a kid, or heck, even as an adult. :)

So far studied all character sheets (found all rulebooks). Have some thoughts on what this missing element per each sheet is but totally can't undestand what kind of answer is expected.

P.S. Never played a tabletop RPG.

Aaaand solved!
A very tricky puzzle! (about 70 of 100 guesses are mine I think :)

OK, at Chour's suggestion, I have added a checker to assist solvers in validating whether they are on the right track in each part of the puzzle. You can find that here

I am a total noob when it comes to RPG's, so I won't even try.
Happy Cakeday btw!

Not my cup of tea so I shall eagerly wait for the next one. Happy cake day! :)

Happy cake day Mikalye!

Happy cake day