Character Creation Summary
Step One: House and Lands Design House and Lands: Work with your fellow players tocreate a noble house.
Step Two: Character Concept
- Pick or Roll Age: Youth, Adolescent, Young Adult, Adult, Middle Age, Old, Very Old, Venerable.
Pick or Roll Status: Any from 1 to 6.
Determine Role: Expert, Leader, Rogue, Schemer, Warrior Determine
Background: Come up with at least one important event that shaped your life.
Determine Goal: What does your character want?
Determine Motivation: Why does your character want what he or she wants?
Virtue: Name at least one virtue or quality about your character.
Vice: Name at least one vice or character flaw your character has.
- Find Age to determine Starting Experience. Purchase Status first. Allocate all remaining Experience.
- Allocate Experience between Specialties.
- Find Age to determine starting Destiny Points. Invest Destiny Points into benefits up to the maximum allowed
by Age.
- Find Age to determine required drawbacks. Select drawbacks that most closely match concept, specifically
your vice.
- Spend at least half your starting coin on possessions.
- Calculate Intrigue Defense: Awareness + Cunning + Status Calculate Composure: 3 × Will Calculate Combat Defense: Agility + Athletics + Awareness Calculate Health: 3 × Endurance
Armor Rating (AR): Find your armor’s AR (TABLE 9–2: ARMOR on page 155), and note its effects on your character sheet. Calculate Weapon Damage: Fill in weapon statistics from
TABLE 9–3: WEAPONS on pages 156-157.
- Fill in any remaining entries on your character sheet (name, homeland, family name, and so on).
Carve your name into history!