Character Creation

This page is a guide to the creation of a character.

As a general rule, before creating your character you should ask your SD about the campaign's setting, most importantly what age and location is and which characters are allowed. For the first character/campaign it's probably better to realize an all accepted campaign or, even better, all random.

Since this game is mostly battle oriented, it's wise to realize a party with a logical and efficient composition.

The first character should be a Monk or Paladin because these have strong early statistics and abilities. This becomes very important if there are few player, let's say less than 4. In this case, other characters should specialize in healing (Bard and Mage with proper gods are suited) and the last character(s) should be an high-damage and great out-of-combat character (that is the definition of Rogue, but some races' Warrior, like Ulalki, also qualifies). If the party is bigger, anything should be fine, but it still is advisable to have very different characters. For example, if two players wanted to play Rogue, they may be a fast melee one and a long ranged accurate one.

Once your character's role has been chosen, you should decide its race. If it is a magic-user (Monk, Mage, Bard and a certain kind of Paladin) it is best to choose a magic-oriented race with many useful spells and also a similar deities. If your character is a melee fighter any high-HP race will be good and choosing a god that gives you free level 1 skill will help reach level 5. Finally if your character is ranged or simply it's better to leave it out of combat choose a race with high base speed.

Now that the fighting-side of the character is done, it's time to Role-Play.

Give your character a Background, the longer, the better. Explain where he came from, what he learnt in its youth and what led him to start this campaign (for random campaign, why it decided to go on an adventure/ exploration/ suicide). Then choose your character's Alignment, that must be the same of your deities or different by not more than one aspect, you should also explain the reason of such alignment in the background. To make your character more realistic give it traits and objectives, better if eccentric and unusual ones (Drama Queen is always accepted). Except in fights, you should always follow what the character's mind would do in its place, as the SD may award free experience or extra quests for role-playing.

Now that your character is basically ready, you only need its statistics to play.

To calculate Idle Statistics roll 4d4 and add 3 to each result. The results are the numerical values of the statistics that now have to be placed as you prefer, remembering what suits your class and character the most.