Character Creation

Determine a Degree for each of your 6 Traits:
- either Often ([][][]), Occasionally ([][]), or Rarely ([]).
- Degrees are not set for Traits based on a "scale of proficiency", but how often you use them irl.

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--EXERTIVE TRAITS--
Assertiveness: Measures your willingness to speak your mind or stand up for yourself or others.
- You Often ([][][]) speak your mind or stand up for yourself or others.
- You Occasionally ([][]) speak your mind or stand up for yourself or others.
- You Rarely ([]) speak your mind or stand up for yourself or others.
Boldness: Measures your willingness to take action that is either dangerous or foolish, regardless of the risk.
- You Often ([][][]) take action that is either dangerous or foolish, regardless of the risk.
- You Occasionally ([][]) take action that is either dangerous or foolish, regardless of the risk.
- You Rarely ([]) take action that is either dangerous or foolish, regardless of the risk.

--DECISIVE TRAITS--
Determination: Measures your willingness to not give up in the face of adversity or hardship.
- You Often ([][][]) rise to face adversity or hardship.
- You Occasionally ([][]) rise to face adversity or hardship.
- You Rarely ([]) rise to face adversity or hardship.
Influence: Measures your ability to earn trust from others through your presence and social skills alone.
- You Often ([][][]) are able to earn trust from others through your presence and social skills alone.
- You Occasionally ([][]) are able to earn trust from others through your presence and social skills alone.
- You Rarely ([]) are able to earn trust from others through your presence and social skills alone.

--EMOTIVE TRAITS--
Empathy: Measures your ability for compassion and willingness to forgive or trust others.
- You Often ([][][]) are able to forgive or trust others.
- You Occasionally ([][]) are able to forgive or trust others.
- You Rarely ([]) are able to forgive or trust others.
Passion: Measures your willingness to act on powerful emotions such as anger or frustration.
- You Often ([][][]) act on powerful emotions such as anger or frustration.
- You Occasionally ([][]) act on powerful emotions such as anger or frustration.
- You Rarely ([]) act on powerful emotions such as anger or frustration.

Let someone else evaluate your Traits:
- You may swap out as many of the other person's evaluations with your own as you desire.
- The following are some "PbP friendly" ways for players new to this forum to complete this step.

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(Forum) Group Evaluation:
- Post your Trait's Degrees in the Group Evaluation Thread found here within the Quick Rules Subforum.
- Other players will use the example given there for reference on how to help evaluate your Traits.

(Irl) Partner Evaluation:
- Find one person who knows you quite well irl to help evaluate your Trait's Degree for you.
- Do not show them your own results until they have finished their evaluation.

(PM) Partner Evaluation:
- Message me and I will be happy to pair up with you and help evaluate your Trait's Degrees.
- I will be asking you questions based on the example given on the Group Evaluation Thread.
- You may visit the Group Evaluation Thread for reference, but this is not necessary if you wish to pair up with me for your evaluation.

Determine Impulses & Reservations:
- For each Trait, record each Impulse or Reservation it acquires.
- If you have a higher Degree in a Trait, it will likely acquire an Impulse.
- If you have a lower Degree in a Trait, it will likely acquire a Reservation.

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--ASSERTIVENESS--
If you are Often Assertive ([][][]), this Trait gains the following:
- Impulse: You often act when "someone threatens you or another", even if doing so seems especially risky.
If you are Occasionally Assertive ([][]), this Trait gains the following:
- Impulse: You occasionally act when "someone threatens you or another", but only if doing so does not seem especially risky.
- Reservation: You must always activate this Reservation to perform any action using Assertiveness that seems "especially risky."
If you are Rarely Assertive ([]), this Trait gains the following:
- Reservation: You must always activate this Reservation to perform any action using Assertiveness.

--BOLDNESS--
If you are Often Bold([][][]), this Trait gains the following:
- Impulse: You often act when "high reward can be obtained at a risk", even if doing so seems especially risky.
If you are Occasionally Bold ([][]), this Trait gains the following:
- Impulse: You occasionally act when "high reward can be obtained at a risk", but only if doing so does not seem especially risky.
- Reservation: You must always activate this Reservation to perform any action using Boldness that seems "especially risky."
If you are Rarely Bold ([]), this Trait gains the following:
- Reservation: You must always activate this Reservation to perform any action using Boldness.

--DETERMINATION--
If you are Often Determined ([][][]), this Trait gains the following:
- Impulse: You often act when "adversity or hardship makes you doubt yourself", even if doing so seems especially risky.
If you are Occasionally Determined ([][]), this Trait gains the following:
- Impulse: You occasionally act when "adversity or hardship makes you doubt yourself", but only if doing so does not seem especially risky.
- Reservation: You must always activate this Reservation to perform any action using Determination that seems "especially risky."
If you are Rarely Determined ([]), this Trait gains the following:
- Reservation: You must always activate this Reservation to perform any action using Determined.

--INFLUENCE--
If you are Often Influential ([][][]), this Trait gains the following:
- Impulse: You often act when "an opportunity arises to gain someone’s trust", even if doing so seems especially risky.
If you are Occasionally Influential ([][]), this Trait gains the following:
- Impulse: You occasionally act when "an opportunity arises to gain someone’s trust", but only if doing so does not seem especially risky.
- Reservation: You must always activate this Reservation to perform any action using Influence that seems "especially risky."
If you are Rarely Influential ([]), this Trait gains the following:
- Reservation: You must always activate this Reservation to perform any action using Influence.

--EMPATHY--
If you are Often Emphatic ([][][]), this Trait gains the following:
- Impulse: You often act when "someone needs help", even if doing so seems especially risky.
- Reservation: You must always activate this Reservation to perform any action that would be "cruel to others".
If you are Occasionally Emphatic ([][]), this Trait gains the following:
- Impulse: You occasionally act when "someone needs help", but only if doing so does not seem especially risky.
- Reservation: You must always activate this Reservation to perform any action using Empathy that seems "especially risky."
If you are Rarely Emphatic ([]), this Trait gains the following:
- Reservation: You must always activate this Reservation to perform any action using Empathy.

--PASSION--
If you are Often Passionate ([][][]), this Trait gains the following:
- Impulse: You often act when "someone else’s actions could cause others to become angry or frustrated with them", even if doing so seems especially risky.
If you are Occasionally Passionate ([][]), this Trait gains the following:
- Impulse: You occasionally act when "someone else’s actions could cause others to become angry or frustrated with them", but only if doing so does not seem especially risky.
- Reservation: You must always activate this Reservation to perform any action using Passion that seems "especially risky."
If you are Rarely Influential ([]), this Trait gains the following:
- Reservation: You must always activate this Reservation to perform any action using Passion.

Determine your starting Gear and Resources:
- Determine the type of Gear and Resources you will be establishing based off of the Jumping Off Point (found in the thread named Session 0: Setup)
- Gear and Resources added must be small enough/light enough to be carried in your personal Inventory.
- Items that carry things like "backpacks" do not count as Gear and are assumed to be already worn and take up no Inventory space.

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Gear:
- Gear is any item that cannot deplete over time that makes actions they can be applied to easier to perform, often by providing the player with the use of Advantage (explained in more detail in the Checks thread found here in the Quick Rules subforum) on the roll they are about to perform.

Resources:
- Resources are items that are finite, and deplete as they are used.
- Resources have AMT (or Amount) which portrays how much of it can be used before it runs dry and is depleted.
- Every time a Resource is used on an action, its AMT is reduced by -1.
- Your character can only hold a total of 6 AMT of any one Resource.
- All Resources established in character creation start with 4 out of 6 AMT.

Inventory:
- Inventory represents how many different individual pieces of Gear and Resources a player can carry.
- Your Inventory is divided into 3 different types of Inventory Slots that hold different sized items: Small, Medium, and Large.
- Gear that can be easily be combined with the Resource that powers it (like a phone and its battery), allow you to store both in a single Inventory Slot.
- Smaller items can be stored in larger slots if need be, but this is considered wasteful. Only one item can be carried in each Inventory Slot, no matter the size of that item.

Small Slots
- Carry any Gear or AMT of a Resource no larger than an apple that is also light enough that it can be carried with ease.
- There are a total of 4 Small Slots.

Medium Slots
- Carry any Gear or AMT of a Resource larger than an apple, but small/light enough that it does not have to be carried on your back.
- There are a total of 2 Medium Slots.

Large Slots
- Carry any Gear or AMT of a Resource that is so large or so heavy that it can only be carried on your back.
- There are a total of 2 Large Slots.

[Conor]
[Confidence: 0/4]

--EXERTIVE TRAITS--
[INS: 0/6] [Injuries: 0/3]
Assertiveness [Up-Growth: 0/4] [Down-Growth: 0/4]
- Degree: Occasionally ([][]) speak your mind or stand up for yourself or others.
- Impulse: You occasionally act when "someone threatens you or another", but only if doing so does not seem especially risky.
- Reservation: You must always activate this Reservation to perform any action using Assertiveness that seems "especially risky."
Boldness [Up-Growth: 0/4] [Down-Growth: 0/4]
- Degree: Occasionally ([][]) take action that is either dangerous or foolish, regardless of the risk.
- Impulse: You occasionally act when "high reward can be obtained at a risk", but only if doing so does not seem especially risky.
- Reservation: You must always activate this Reservation to perform any action using Boldness that seems "especially risky."

--DECISIVE TRAITS--
[INS: 0/6] [Stress: 0/3]
Determination [Up-Growth: 0/4] [Down-Growth: 0/4]
- Degree: Often ([][][]) rise to face adversity or hardship.
- Impulse: You often act when "adversity or hardship makes you doubt yourself", even if doing so seems especially risky.
- Reservation:
Influence [Up-Growth: 0/4] [Down-Growth: 0/4]
- Degree: Often ([][][]) are able to earn trust from others through your presence and social skills alone.
- Impulse: You often act when "an opportunity arises to gain someone’s trust", even if doing so seems especially risky.
- Reservation:

--EMOTIVE TRAITS--
[INS: 0/6] [Fear: 0/3]
Empathy [Up-Growth: 0/4] [Down-Growth: 0/4]
- Degree: Rarely ([]) are able to forgive or trust others.
- Impulse:
- Reservation: You must always activate this Reservation to perform any action using Empathy.
Passion [Up-Growth: 0/4] [Down-Growth: 0/4]
- Degree: Occasionally ([][]) act on powerful emotions such as anger or frustration.
- Impulse: You occasionally act when "someone else’s actions could cause others to become angry or frustrated with them", but only if doing so does not seem especially risky.
- Reservation: You must always activate this Reservation to perform any action using Passion that seems "especially risky."

--INVENTORY--
Large Slots
- Walking Stick
- Junk Food [AMT:4/6]
Medium Slots
- Thermos (full of coffee) [AMT: 4/6]
- Umbrella
Small Slots
- Phone (partially charged) [AMT: 4/6]
- Passport
- Wallet (some cash) [AMT: 4/6]
- Conversational French (booklet)