IHA Character Creation Thread

Okay I have been working on the character some trying to implement the concept I have in my head. I was going to go photographic memory but that was not quite the theme I was striving for so I went with Eidectic Memory as it is defined as the ability to accurately and vividly recall something you have sensed and photographic memory seems more in-tune with memorizing books rather than scenes

Skill: Notice (+4)Does this seem viable when it comes to Stunts? Am I understanding this concept correctly? Are they sufficiently restricted without being to restricted?

I'm thinking the character is kind of like a Jayne Cobb type from firefly, someone who likes big guns and explosives and especially shooting big guns and blowing things up. But yeah, isekai'd into a small skinny girl body.

For the power... I don't know if it's just me being indecisive, but maybe I just go all in on power replication? Why choose when I can borrow everyone else's?

Nevermind that, I think I want super intelligence. I think it'd be fun to play a smart character who doesn't have any practice at being a smart character

@oldschoolfool - Fate is one of those games where you don't really NEED the typical warrior/healer/stealth load out. You make do with what you got. That said...it looks like we have a Super Intelligence user, a Sherlock with who transforms into a wraith and possesses people, and a basic human who summons a big scary minion to do their fighting. You can either make somebody to compliment that, or...you know...whatever you feel like.

@DeJoker - Seems good, sounds like we will have some "mind palace" scenes going between you and Naelick, with you recalling all the details and their character putting the clues together. The beauty of PbP means we can always go back and review the previous scenes to see what your character had a chance to pick up. I approve of those two stunts.

@Naelick - I like the potential of this concept. Curious to see what you do with it.

Alright, so I've settled on Best Foot Forward and Hard Boiled as Stunts. Believe all I've got left is the three aspects generated from the background etc.

Great!

Just writing down some stuff

Hehehehrhrhr...ah-hem...don't mind me...just plotting and scheming. XD

I'll mull this over and work on something. Thanks. Mulled and I think some sort of Energy Absorbing type - needs to get hit and beat up a bit to be useful in combat, I always liked Sebastian Shaw - so a friendly more heroic guy, rather than seething evil.

I created a hero once whose only power was that they were nigh-invulnerable and nothing else no special strength no special other powers he could be a shield of a sorts and he could mess with villains but everything else he could do was nothing more than a normal person could do. Yeah he would shine in some situations but in many he was completely ineffectual

@DeJoker - Did you change your concept then? No wraith/possession powers?

No I just have not gotten to that part -- do I need those Skill stunts for my Power??

Or are you commenting on that side comment I made to oldschoolfool's mulling ??

Ahh, I misunderstood as well. It's clearer now

For your power you want to look at the venture city rules. The powers listed there are stunts but they're allowed to be a little bit more broad than normal

Right but I just want to make sure the Stunts I am using on my Skills are not the same ones I am supposed to be using on my Power (Quirk)

You've got the right idea

Upon some meditation I've realized I'm uncomfortable portraying a character who would effectively be trans with the amount of tact I would want to have, so my character is starting out as a woman. A badass, take no prisoners, muscle bound woman. But after the isekai, she's going to be the total opposite, small, frail, 100 lbs soaking wet.

Her name before the isekai was Akira LeBlanc, daughter of French and Japanese mercenaries, raised to kill a man with her thumb by age 11.

I think I'll leave the details of the high school student's life before the isekai to the gm and for my character to discover as she goes. To that end, I think I'm going to leave my other aspects blank for now, if that's ok, and fill them in with details of the new girl's life as they come up. That way I can be totally blindsided with complications at the gm's whim

My other aspects are still blank. From what I read, aren't you supposed to come up with those based on events the group shared prior to the adventure?

Yeah, but of course if we're waking up in a new world starting the rp from the moment we wake up, we wouldn't have that shared history (unless we did, before the isekai)

That's what I was thinking it would be.

@DeJoker - I thought you were saying you made an Invulnerable character instead of the Wraith Possession idea you originally pitched. But that was just an example, so we are good.

As for your stunts, yes, the super power stunts are different from your Eidectic Memory and Detailed Sensory Awareness. You can still put each of the descriptions in the "Stunts" section of the character sheet so we don't have to go reference the SRD every time, but also make quick notes in the Extras box...just list them under the name of your quirk like: Super form, Phasing, Influence, Flight.

Later I will make one of the teachers public so you can see what I mean if that doesn't make sense.

@naelick - That's fine by me. Not an issue either way.

@Bleak - Normally yes, that is how it is done. The default game assumes that your PCs have met each other before and we spend time telling the story about one time when they were together and you take an aspect from that story. This time however, we aren't starting as a cohesive group, so that doesn't really work.

Now, you have a couple options here. You can leave your Aspects blank and "discover them" during play. Just tell me after you take an action that you want to make an Aspect. It should be relevant to that action in the current scene, but other than that you have creative control. Option two is make them up on your own. Whatever works for you is fine. If you really want to link your PC to another, you can do that. But it isn't required.

Gotcha.