CHARGEN POST

CHARGEN POST

If you already made up a character using the linked post, you can play them if you want. The system has changed a bit to more-or-less LotFP (or more-or-less Mageblade!) (emphasis on less – rules lite is my thing) but the chargen doesn’t care much.

I recommend rolling up 2 characters right now. They know each other.

Here is chargen in its entirety (mostly pasted from the post):

ATTRIBUTES: Str, Dex, Int, Wis, Con, Cha. 3D6 in order, punk.

Wisdom is common sense and perception but also ability to notice spirits. Charisma doubles as magic power & luck.

CLASS: choose from fighter, specialist (ie skills-person), or spirit-wrangler. Fighters can possibly learn skillimagical effects during the game a little bit like Mageblades, if anyone knows what that is.

Specialists get 2 skills/tropes – one at 4, one at 2 (roll under on a D6 with mods to perform skill under duress). They should be of the breadth of sailing, gunnery, animal handling, trading, persuasion, herbalism, navigation, smugglers’ tricks, spirit talk – not as narrow as “lockpick” nor as broad as “thief.”

Spirit Wranglers are a bit like spirit mediums, a bit like pokemon-trainers. All magic happens because of spirits. Spirits can sometimes be forced, more often must be negotiated with. I warn you now this part of the game is totally untested you will be helping to define the rules as we go. Like a true sorcerer.

Also choose a background. This is what people know you as and you can plead based on it saying “but I should be able to do this because I’m a…” and it gives you 1 skill or a default roll off your attributes when successfully invoked. Example professions include: pirate, smuggler, concubine, procurer, medium, monk, bodyguard/mafia hood, magistrate, spirit medium, cunning man, builder, fisherman, whaler, scout, merchant, legal opiner, scholar, “viking” slaver, diver, navigator.

Note: we will not be using DnD type levels. Advancement is by increasing skills, crew and most of all, loot. This is a domain game from turn 1 – your group holds and uses property in common. If you conquer a kingdom, you’re kings.

Default status

You can have a secret, long-lost background as a ship captain/priest/village judge/longhouse master/princess that’s fine, write your story. But (spoilers) you start in chains, with none of your stuff on you – Equipment (below) is somewhere on the island, your Special Possession is somewhere out there.

Equipment – roll once on Table A, once on Table B. You had these only yesterday and you know they’re nearby…

Table A

1. crowbar

2. dagger

3. shield

4. food, drink and backpack

5. lamp and flasks of oil (3)

6. melee weapon

7. armour: leather or improvised equivalent

8. bow or crossbow with 10 arrows/bolts

9. small raft (size 1)

10. mirror

11. rope (50′)

12. grappling hook/anchor

13. pouch with 20 silver dirhams

14. musical instrument

15. hammer, chisel, pick + 8 iron spikes

16. writing box and seal

17. arquebus + 10 shots

18. small barrel of gunpowder.

19. Barrel of arrack

20. 3 caskets grapeshot, with powder

Table B

1. lucky medallion (re-roll 1 failed saving throw)

2. potion of healing

3. lockable iron-bound chest

4. guard animal (dog, lynx, monkey or similar)

5. riding or pack animal (camel, pony, goat)

6. size 2 boat

7. armor: scale or exotic

8. loyal family retainer ( a standard grog with a couple of charming quirks).

9. map

10. book – holy text or instruction manual

11. holy symbol or badge of office

12. spirit in a jar

13. slip of paper with a spirit contract – eat and then specify what you need

14. bird in a cage that repeats spirit chatter

Special Thing – roll once on each table – this is somewhere out in the world, a hook to be retrieved, rather than something you had only yesterday:

1 a ship

2 a fort, bay or haven

3 a contact – smuggler, informant, fence, carpenter, smith, spirit go-between

4 a weapon – cannon, bomb, spirit, blackmail, poison, disease

5 a debt – blood, goods, mafia, spirit

6 a diminished god from a foreign land

7 a massive cache of gunpowder

8 several gallons of the interloper’s “holy water”

9 a sibling rival – kite pilot, long-distance swimmer, pirate, magistrate/king/official

10 the washed-up corpse of something massive

11 a spring that bubbles with blood or a cistern filled with teeth

12 Hungry Grandmother’s bottle of secrets

13 a funeral barge, surrounded by silence

14 a Dark Child

15 a commander of the invaders, disgustingly ill, on a mission

16 one of the enemy’s ships, on the edge of mutiny

17 one of the enemy’s Holy Books, foolishly translated into a tongue we understand

18 the ashen remains of an ancient Obsidian Queen’s funeral pyre

19 a relic of a foreign saint

20 one of the teeth of Brother Shark

Your relation to it:

1 It’s rightfully yours but currently captive

2 It’s marked on this map

3 It’s known to be abandoned, there for taking,

4 It’s lost in a useful way

5 It’s in danger from something esoteric

6 It’s been swiped by an enemy

And/or:

1 you are blessed/cursed in some way

2 you are bonded/owed in some way

3 you have a mysterious ally/enemy

4 your memories/skills/loyalties/reputation/status/soul have been stolen/augmented/crippled/replaced

5 your tribe’s priest/captive spirits need you and only you

6 you are an exiled spirit with temporary control of a body

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