Character Creation

2025-02-23

Step 1: Generate ability scores

Strength: most important for damage
Dexterity: most important for physical attacks and some saves
Intelligence: important for complex magic and sanity
Charisma: important for social interactions
Will: important for powerful magic and magic resistance and other saves and sanity
Constitution: important for resisting physical damage and some magic saves

Bonuses:

Your six traits default to 10, but you are slightly above average
Roll 4d4 +1 In the public channel
Abort yourself if you have any scores below 7
Arrange scores as you like
Scores will help you with saves and checks
Your scores can improve with the right kind of experience

When making the choices consider the following mechanics:

HP = 15 plus 2x Con bonus. Your HP will grow slowly with experience. Generally 1-2 points at a time Health recovery 1-4 hp with rest

Mana: Life force store = HP (Life aspected) Magic Resistance = 10 plus will and will + con bonuses for elemental damage If trained: Internal store (Aspected) : 10 + will bonus (This can grow) Mana regen with rest: 2 hour in low mana, 4 if middling, 8 if near proper source Mana draw: If a source is present, base draw is 5. You must be attuned to the aspect

Sanity: base 10 + will + int + con bonuses Witnessing, using, or experiencing reality bending magics puts a strain on things. Low sanity makes the membrane more permeable. Paradoxically making powerful magic easier, and more risky. High sanity can also help with magic complexity and reduce risk.

Inspiration: a single reroll or a +2 bonus per session

Attack: Generally one number that remains constant Base + Dex Bonus + Weapon bonus Damage = light (d4), med (d8), heavy (2d6) plus STR bonus Guns have dramatic crits

Base = 0 for now Skills depending on how you learned to fight

Defense: Generally one number for passive, one number for active Base + Armor Passive Base + Armor + Defense skill + Dex + Armed (+1)

Saves: will saves, con saves, dex saves

Step 2: Pick a basic fighting style package - training and perks

Warrior Trained: Spear, Dagger, Axe, Hammer, Sword, Bow or Javelin Any armor and shield. Can seek more formal training.
Perk: Warrior’s sense (After watching someone fight, reduce their defensive bonus by 1) Perk: Battle hardened (+1 con saves)

Temple Trained: Staff, Mace, Hammer, Med to Heavy Armor, Shield
If in good standing can seek blessings at temples Perk: Shield Wall (Lend active defense bonus to one immediate neighbor) Perk: Resist Magic Save (+1)

Street fighter: Simple weapons, Short Sword, Sling, Light Bow, Light Armor Perk: Shit talker (+1 distraction, +1 intimidation) Perk: Ready to run (+ 2 defensive bonus to GTFO) Perk: Wrasslin

Step 3 - skip if not sorcerous

3a: choose attunement to one of the following types Stone, Air, Fire, Water, Life, Death, Shadow, Sun, Moon, Star, Dust, Sea, Storm…. Attunement entails sensitivity to and ability to use certain energies in the world. Mana is aspected, but can be changed. Some manas are versatile others are more limited. The above on the list are mainly limited. You can identify workings made with your attunements You can detect magic and mana generally unless it has been hidden

3b: When choosing your perks, you can choose from this list too (subject to major revision) +1 attunement that doesn’t conflict.This may increase the effective amount of mana to regen or draw Purification and transmutation: draw or regen mana of a different source at rate of 2 Mana ‘stone’: You can create and use a single external mana ‘stone’. It can be filled by you at a rate of 5/day. Up to 10 points. It could be a crystal, wood, a ritual knot. Sorcerers can only ever own one and cannot create them. Mages start with one, and may create more as power grows Careful magic: -2 power/spell, +better crit failure table results (+ 10 on the roll) Magic resistance: +2 Greater Internal store: +5 capacity Powerful spells: +2 channel/throughput Complex spells: increase complexity without risk increase Magical defense: extend your magic resistance in a 3’ radius (immediate neighbors) Penetrating spells: -2 to opposed magic resistance

Step 4: Choose 3 additional perks or skillsets

Minor magic heirloom, non combat
Better Saves: +1 to a type of save
Wrasslin (basic)
Acrobatics (basic)
Thieving (basic)
Bullshitting and schmoozing + 2 to most social interactions
Healthy: + 2 HP
Sane: +2 sanity
Lucky: +2 inspiration
Firearms training: can use basic arms and maintain them

Step 5: Choose as many types of basic, middling, or advanced lore based on your Int bonus or any type of mundane skill based on the same

Lore will find you connections, help solve puzzles, allow for knowledge checks etc. Just name your areas of relative expertise, 1 rank per bonus. Spread it out, or focus it

Skills are simple crafts, not full professions unless you have 3 ranks. You know how to make a thing(s). You can perform a specialized skill.

Step 6: Kit yourself out

light armor
1 melee weapon
100 gold (see table of goods)