Character creation and setting discussion

I'm ready to rock and roll. Cheers for all your help with the character creation process. Can't wait to get started!

New game thread posted here.

I think that the Commissar has worked for the inquisitor for a short while. If anyone else has the same thought then I'm happy for us to work out a pre-existing relationship?

I have redone my stunts. Can you take another look?

And off we go!

@Khulod I think Master of the Tarot needs to be limited to once per session. The rest of your stunts look good.

Right, fixed! :)

I am still here. Spent the last couple days hunting a wolf through a near by town.....like a legit Arctic wolf. This is not a common occurrence where I live. I am writing my IC post. My character creation is kind of behind.

Mine is, too.

I really have to dig into this system: it’s more foreign than I thought it would be.

Yeah this system is quite alien to me too, especially with all of your equipment abstracted away but I like the idea. I think the aspects and stunts are the hardest to wrap your head around. Without playing the system I've found it hard to envisage how they're used, but my understanding is that you use them to get bonuses to rolls in game. I didn't finish all of my aspects but @JoshuaMabry said we could just fill them in as we go.

There are also compendiums online for aspects and stunts which are worth looking at for inspiration. I thought that the SRD was really good and easy to understand if you haven't read it already. I can see that once you get used to the system that character creation would be pretty simple.

@JoshuaMabry I was just thinking given Augustine's wealthy background, should his remaining free aspect be something along the lines of "Noble Beginnings" or something like that to reflect the knowledge he would have of nobility? On a broad scale, I feel like he would understand how noble houses operate, politics, general customs etc.

@Sgt.Banter I think that’s a great idea.

Severian started life as the seventh (and bastard) son of a minor noble of the Askellon Sector. Through familiy connections, a young Severian found a role with the Officio Medicae where he initially trained as a Chiurgeon and conducted research on the quarantine of worlds afflicted by Chaos-created plagues. Through this research, Severian became known to an Inquisitor of the Ordo Malleus who introduced him to a colleague in the Ordo Hereticus in whose retinue he later served as apprentice with a special gift for torture. Recently, Severian has been seconded to the retinue of Inquisitor Lazaraus Killian for reasons not entirely clear. Severian surmises that his attraction to Inquisitor Kllian is a consequence of his noble Askellon background, his expertise in the quarentibe of chaos-plagued worlds, his special powers of painful, but non-lethal, interrogation, or some combination thereof.

I think Severian's relationship aspects might be with either:

The Psyker - a shared interest and involvement with the Emoperor's Tarot, or
The Commissar - Some shared noble blood? Or
The Inquisitor - Perhaps Killian was the Ordo Malleus Inquisitor investigating chaos-plague worlds?

Inquisitor Killain seems to be in the Ordo Xenos camp. Although he hasn't stated that for the record.

@therecusant,@Blackheart How are you all doing with your characters?

@therecusant All of these can emerge from play. Have you read the game thread yet?

@therecusant Thanks. I think you've got enough of your character built to get started, and I'd like to get the game moving again.