Discuss your characters

This space is for you to discuss your characters, mostly, character creation stuffs, ideas and concepts, etc.

Is this a 3.5 sheet or 5e?

Neither unfortunately. I'll get a blank template up that uses plain text.

Okay, new character idea: a very unlucky teen

Alright, whenever you're ready, we can begin character creation.

Sure! Shall I take a crack at it and then you help me fix whatever mistakes I (inevitably) make or would it be better to go through it together?

I’m going to be a disgruntled 42 year old history teacher and football coach.

Just go ahead and get started, it will show what rules I still need to put up here (which are a lot, I know)
As long as you can think of a reason that they'd be investigating and looking into weird occurrences, instead of leaving well enough alone, that sounds great!

Being a history teacher, his true passion is investigating colonial haunted houses.

I mean, there's only so many houses and lighthouses to investigate on a 28 square mile island...but I know what you're getting at.

People travel. Teachers get all summer off.

It's true

I had a fun idea for how Alfie could function in combat and I wanted to run it by you to make sure it’s okay. I’m thinking that, mechanically, he would make an attack roll as normal (maybe with psionics? Is that an attack skill?) but narratively it would be explained as the bad guys being inadvertently affected by the bad luck that Alfie brings with him everywhere he goes (e.g. a roof tile falls and hits the bad guy in the head, rather than Alfie attacking them directly). Would that work? What skill do you think would make the most sense to use for that?

Sounds more like a feat. Skill ranks should only represent the things the character has learned to do. Once I'm not at work, I'll see what feats would work for that.

Okay, great!

My apologies to everyone who's begun working on your characters, I forgot the Chemistry skill! I've added it in to the character sheet

And the Culinary skill. Sheesh!

And Criminality! What is happening? Why are these random skills that start with C no longer listed? It's so strange. Okay, I hope that's everything.

First, I somehow missed Stealth! Okay, I think I got all the skills.

BACKGROUNDS ARE COMPLETE! Occupations are SO much harder. I'm going to work on moving those over, but it'll be even easier if you can tell me which ones are the most interesting to you. I'll get a master list up now.

I'd like to bring in a character I've played before (not on GP), if you think he would fit the game.

He is a sea captain and the owner of a small (just one ship) deep dive/salvage/recovery company. He actually specialises in treasure hunting and jobs of dubious legality, because, well... criminals pay better than museums. Which makes him a bit of a criminal as well, and no stranger to violence and even murder. Some of his recent jobs have generated too much unwanted heat, so he has come to Motivation to lay low for a bit, and maybe find some small business to invest in for money laundering purposes.

Before getting his own ship, he used to work for another crew, smuggling treasures and artifacts, which he believes might have been magical and/or cursed. He is deeply superstitious, especially when it comes to matters of the sea, and has formed a belief in some deep-dwelling entity he just calls "The Leviathan", which may or may not exist, but performing the occasional small (or not so small) offering definitely lets him sleep better at night.

Neither his ship, nor his crew are anywhere in the vicinity, they exist somewhere in the world but would not interfere in the game. He's basically on vacation now.