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Working on getting everything entered, about to finish my rolls but here my outline:

Christopher Johns - Photographer



An English photographer who covered the Great War, he carries scars both physical and mental from his time capturing the worst of humanity. The atrocities of trench warfare, the permanent damage to his right eye from a stray bullet, and the fact that the work he risked his life and sanity for was censored and ignored on his return- have left him adrift from his former colleagues and carefree youth. He copes by hiding his dead eye behind a patch and throwing himself into freelance work, taking the most dangerous and remote jobs available. When the opportunity to travel to Egypt and photograph the Tomb came over the wires, he couldn’t turn down the opportunity…

Rolls:

Age: 27

STR - 50
CON - 70
DEX - 55
APP - 65
POW - 80
SIZ - 65
INT - 80
EDU - 60 [50 + 10 from Improvement Check = 60]


Sanity - 80 - 11= 69
Magic - 16
Luck - 60
Hit Points - 72 12
MOV - 7
Occupation Skill Points - 240

EDU Improvement Check

EDU Improvement Role

Luck:

Is this the correct occupation listing for Photojournalist? The Kindle Version of the Investigators guide I have is terrible and this is the only other source I found online while I'm waiting on my hardcover version to arrive.

Given the background you've described, I'd like to give you a little extra spice, the War Experience Package. This will give you a few extra skill points at the cost of injuries/scars both physical and mental. (Use the Rank and File skill list)

Your Other Language might benefit from being German, for the purposes of the scenario and of course your background in the war.

Also I've edited your hitpoints. Size + Con / 10 = 12

How are you getting on?

That's perfect, thank you!

Absolutely, that's what I was going for. Thanks for fixing the HP, I knew something seemed off there.

Occupation Skill Points - 240
Bonus Skills [70]
Personal Interest Skill Points [160]

Credit Rating - 15
Art/Craft [Photography] - 55 [base 5 + 50 Personal Interest Points]
Persuade - 70 [base 10 + 60 skill points]
Other Language [German] - 61 [base 1 + 60 skill points]
Firearms [Handgun] - 80 [base 20 + 60 Personal Interest points]
Listen - 70 [base 20 + 50 skill points]
Fighting [Brawl] - 75 [base 25 + 50 Personal Interest points]
Stealth - 50 [base 20 + 30 Skill Points]
First Aid - 75 [base 30 + 25 Skill Points + 20 bonus skill points]
Spot Hidden - 75 [base 25 + 50 bonus skill points]

Looking good!

To help with background, roll :
Ideology/beliefs 1d10
Significant people 1d10
Why significant 1d10
Treasured possession 1d10
Meaninigful location 1d10
Traits 1d10

Background Rolls

How do I apply these points to my backstory? I've got quite a bit typed up for that but not sure how it works with the score if I need to re-write it.

Ideology The occult (e.g. astrology, spiritualism, tarot).
Significant person : Person who taught you your highest occupational skill. Identify the skill and consider who taught you (e.g. a schoolteacher, the person you apprenticed with, your father)
Why? You seek to prove yourself to them. How? (e.g. by getting a good job, by finding a good spouse, by getting an education).
Possession: An item connected with your highest skill (e.g. expensive suit, false ID, brass knuckles).
Location: Your family home (e.g. a country estate, a rented flat, the orphanage in which you were raised).
Trait: Ladies’ man/seductress (e.g. suave, charming voice,
enchanting eyes).

Note these are all just for ideas, you can pick and choose as you like. What you do need is one key element, the thing you use to ground yourself (and recover sanity between scenarios)

Hey, how are you getting on? Just two of you we're waiting on now

Ideology: Raised by devout Anglican parents, Christopher found their religious traditions overbearing and exhausting from an early age but still followed the family faith. This faith began to waiver as he watched first his mother, then his father both succumb to illness… What little faith in a higher power was destroyed by he witnessed during the war, men hacking each other to pieces with bayonets, blasting each others limbs off, and the ultimate atrocity, the horrors of the gas…

Christopher now refuses to believe in any benevolent higher power in the universe and resents the idea of any grander fate or personal destiny.

Significant Person: Eva Neumann, a young German woman living on the border between Luxembourg and Germany who took pity on a wounded Christopher after finding unconscious on the banks of the Rhine River. At great risk, she hid him from the Imperial German Army and nursed him back to health from the injury that cost him his right eye. Separated from his unit, Christopher was forced to remain in hiding in her home, waiting for an opportunity to escape German territory and rejoin the Allies. An avid reader and collector of books, she read to him in German and slowly taught him the language. As weeks turned to months, distrust turned to understanding, then affection, then finally love.

This was the first time in his adult life that Christopher allowed himself to feel warmth and see the goodness in another human being. As the year 1918 wore on and the German Army became more desperate, it became evident that the time to chart an escape was rapidly approaching. Knowing that they could not hide together forever and that he could not take Eva with him, Christopher made the difficult decision to go through with his retreat back to Allied territory. He promised he would return for her, she promised she would wait for him. They would start a new life together.

Before their tearful farewell, he took a photo of her. This photo would become his most cherished possession- he keeps it in a silver locket attached to the grip of his Webley Mk. VI top-break revolver.

Christopher managed to reunite with the Allies, and by the winter of 1918 it was clear the war was nearing it’s end, but he was unable to gain clearance to return to Rhineland until the fall of 1919. Alas, when he finally returned to his lover’s home, he did not find her. There were not notes or indications of what might’ve happened to her, no neighbors reported seeing her, it was as if she’d disappeared from the face of the earth. The only trace of her he has left is her photo.

Why: Unable to forget the life he planned to live with Eva, and unable to return to the life he led back in England before the war, Christopher now finds himself a man without a home.

Location: The Rhineland home he shared with Eva during his months in hiding- Christopher remembers every detail, every nook, every book, every moment of his time in hiding. He often retreats to it during his quiet moments or when he needs to block out a painful memory or reorganize his thoughts.

Trait: Christopher’s greatest trait is his perceptiveness. As a child, his father taught him to shoot. As a man of devout faith, his Father never missed the opportunity to entwine religious teachings into daily life lessons, and while instructing Christopher on how to breath and aim, he advised him to ‘take a breath, stop time and see through the eyes of God’.

Though he has long abandoned his fear of God, Christopher took the mantra to heart and sought to hone his observantness and learn to identify and aim for the heart of anything before him- this skill led him to success behind a camera and also contributed to him becoming a keen marksman.

Am I missing any rolls or details?

That's great! Pick one of those as your key detail. That would be the thing that you use to recover sanity in a campaign setting.

So now you just need to set up the character sheet here on Gamer's Plane, fill in the sheet and assign it to my game.

Ok, I'll use the photo of Eva as the key detail.

Sanity Reduction (War Experience Package)

Sanity Reduction (War Experience Package)

Submitted my character! Just one last question, I intended to have a service revolver but couldn't figure out how to do stats/rolls for it in the character sheet.

Did you have a particular revolver in mind? Anything here that is listed for 1920's

I’m guessing 45 revolver would fit the Webley described in your background?