Character Creation

This section is intended to walk you through setting up your character. It will be easiest to follow along with a character sheet to write on as you read.

Character Sheet

Your character sheet is a summary of the most pertinent information about your character. Its main function is to allow you to know what your character can do at a glance.

While not required, it is highly recommended that you keep a dedicated notepad to track your character’s backstory as well as people your character meets and things your character learns over the course of your campaign.

You can find the canonical character sheet I designed for this system here:

• Pen & Paper Character Sheet

However, if you’re feeling artistic, feel free to make your own character sheet! Just make sure it has all the important info you need to play the game.

Morality

Your character’s moral compass is the core to their personality. You will usually have smoother interactions with people who share your morality, but not necessarily.

• Lawful Good (LG) “The Square”: You always do the right thing whilst adhering to the laws of the land.
• Neutral Good (NG) “The Vigilante”: You believe in always doing the right thing, but you generally put more faith in your personal code of honor rather than the corrupted bureaucracy of law.
• Chaotic Good (CG) “The Punk”: You believe in doing the right thing, but the law always gets in the way.
• Lawful Neutral (LN) “The Epicurean”: You are selfish and commit both good and evil deeds to get your way. You uphold the law, but usually in pursuit of its loopholes.
• Neutral Neutral (NN) “The Hollow”: You are indifferent to most anything. You adapt to new contexts and assimilate anything that you believe will help you grow.
• Chaotic Neutral (CN) “The Nihilist”: You detest adhering to any sort of order and prefer to make your own path. You’re indifferent to both good and evil.
• Lawful Evil (LE) “The Fascist”: You are selflessly evil, meaning you would die for an evil cause or deity.
• Neutral Evil (NE) “El Diablo”: The most terrifying and unpredictable of all evils. You are a true force of malevolence who serves no master.
• Chaotic Evil (CE) “The Anarchist”: You want to destroy all that exists. Your wrath is indiscriminate.

Sleep Cycle

Everyone has their own sleep preferences. What are yours? (You will have disadvantaged rolls when you are tired). Note: It is generally recommended for players to choose similar sleeping patterns to the rest of the party.

• Diurnal (D): you prefer to sleep at night. You have difficulty seeing in the dark.
• Nocturnal (N): you prefer to sleep in the day. You see in the dark, but daylight is mildly blinding.
• Unihemispheric (DU or NU): you sleep with one eye open. You can’t be surprised while resting, but sleep is half as restful for health and sanity purposes.
• Crepuscular (C): you prefer to be awake when the sun is setting or rising, otherwise you’d like to nap. You see perfectly at night when moonlight is present.
• Insomniac (I): you cannot sleep without the aid of potions/medicine. You see well in all lighting.

Skill Levels

Your DM will tell your party what level your characters may start as. Assign each number from the corresponding “preset skills” column to one of your skills.

You will notice each skill on your character sheet has a pentagon to hold the level of that stat, a box for the corresponding dice roll, and a bubble on the upper right of the pentagon to hold the proficiency bonus.

The skill table on the next page will give you all the data you need to fill in so you know what dice to roll when asked to make a skill check. It also has supplemental information about the minimum, average, and maximum numbers that can be rolled for that level so that when you are leveling up you can understand statistically what you are gaining.

Occupation

How has your character survived up until this point in their life? Was your character born to a wealthy family? Any reasonable way your character makes a living is valid, from a security guard to a thief to a waste management engineer.

Once you have chosen an occupation for your character, write it down in the Occupation line of your character sheet and then see which of the below classes match it best to determine what proficiencies, abilities, and equipment your character would have from working that occupation.

Occupation Classes

Which of these classes best correlates to your character’s occupation? Note: if none of these classes fit with your character’s occupation, you should work with your DM to determine what your character should start with.

Derived Stats

These numerics are derived from your skill levels.

Health, Mana, and Sanity

• Your Health is twice your maximum Constitution roll.
• Your Mana is twice your maximum Wisdom roll.
• Your Sanity is twice your maximum Intelligence roll.

So if your Constitution is level 10 then your maximum health is 40.

Movement and Carrying Capacity

Your movement dictates how much you can move per turn. Generally every block on the map is 1 meter.

$$Movement = AGI$$

Your movement is equal to your Agility level. So if you are level 10 in Agility, then you can move 10 meters per turn.

Your carrying capacity determines how much you can carry before you are encumbered, which causes every action you take to be disadvantaged. This is measured in kilograms.

$$Capacity = (6 \times STR) + (4 \times CON)$$

So if you are level 10 in Strength and Constitution, then you can carry 100 kilograms.

Critical Score

This number reduces what you need to roll to have a critical success. Suppose your critical has a score of 4 and you are level 10 in Dexterity, this means that when rolling Dexterity you only need at least a 16 to have a critical success instead of a 20.

$$Critical = {(STR + DEX + CHA) \over 6}$$

Suppose your Strength level is 6, your Dexterity level is 4, and your Charisma is 4. This means your critical score is 2. (Always round down for this).

Poise

This number indicates the number of reactions you have per round of combat. When an enemy is attacking you or moving past you, you can allow them to continue or you can spend a point to react to them. Suppose you have a party of four people and your enemy has a poise of 3, this means that the enemy will be able to react to the first three attacks but on the fourth attack they will not be able to react.

$$Poise = {(AGI + WIS + CON) \over 12}$$

Suppose your Agility is level 10, your Wisdom is level 12, and your Charisma is level 8. This means your poise is 2. (Always round down for this).

Actions per Turn

This is exactly what it sounds like, the number of actions you have per turn of combat. Take your average level. (Add all your skill levels then divide by 7). If your average level is:

• (1 - 10) then you have 1 action per turn.
• (11 - 20) then you have 2 actions per turn.
• (21+) then you have 3 actions per turn.

Vices, Virtues, and Acumens

If your character’s alignment is:

• (LG), then select 2 virtues.
• (CE), then select 2 vices.
• (LN, LE, NG, NE, CN, CG), select 1 virtue and 1 vice.
• (NN), then randomly obtain 1 acumen.

Vices and Virtues

These are traits more intended to aid a player with role-playing their character, however there is still a functional aspect to them which is determined in a qualitative manner.

A given vice or virtue will give the player advantaged or disadvantaged rolls depending on the scenario. For example, if your character is humble then they might roll advantaged charisma when bowing before an authority figure. However, suppose that same character is trying to fit in with a band of elite pirates - then they might roll disadvantaged charisma for being too humble.

Note: One cannot possess a virtue along with its opposing vice. So you cannot be both lustful and chaste, for example.

Acumens

Unlike Vices and Virtues, Acumens have a more defined effect on gameplay.

Backstory and Notable Relations

When coming up with your backstory, be sure to write down your character’s parents/mentors and their emotional relation to them. Any additional information can assist your DM with giving your character meaningful interactions. Ideally try to come up with around three non-parental figures that had a meaningful effect on your character’s backstory.

Special Traits and Abilities

If at this point you have not been instructed to put anything in this area, leave this blank until your DM specifies otherwise.