0. Character generation

Welcome! In this thread we will create the player characters plus one NPC that will accompany your group in all the adventures. You should choose the NPC's kin and profession to balance the party, after everyone chooses theirs, and I will fiinish the NPC details.

So grab the character template below and follow these steps:
1. Choose your kin.
2. Pick your profession.
3. Decide on your age.
4. Spend points on your attributes.
5. Spend points on your skills.
6. Choose your starting talents.
7. Determine your Pride.
8. Choose a Dark Secret.
9. Define your relationships to the other player characters and the group's companion NPC.
10. Pick your gear.
11. Decide your appearance.
12. Choose your name.
13. Answer the following questions from your PC’S point of view, on this thread:
A. Why have you spent the last couple of weeks in Willowbrook?
B. Why do you trust the other members of this party with your life?
C. How long has this group been together? Do you foresee the group being together for the long term?
D. Why are you adventuring and not staying at Willowbrook?
E. Tell us a little about your character background and their next goals and aspirations

Here we have an already filled character sheet, to be used as an example. Feel free to learn from it, edit all content or even change the BB code to better suit your needs.

Hi! Thanks for adding me!

As I said in recruiting thread I was thinking about Druid PC, but seeing that you already have such character now I'm more thinking about Minstrel or Hunter. Or maybe my druid could be on shapeshifting path? But maybe it will still be too much overlap with this.

Oh, this character is just an example. It won't necessarily be the NPC. Feel free to make a Druid yourself, if you want to. =)

Ok, I will sit on this later today or on Monday (as I don't play at weekends).

Name: Horus son of Osi



Half Elf
Rider
30yrs and 50weeks

Key Attribute: Wits and Agility
Pride: Son of the Dragonslayers
Dark Secret: Pyromaniac
I would die for Brynna if it came to that.

Strength - 4
Agility - 5
Wits - 3
Empathy - 3

Endurance - 2
Melee - 2
Marksmanship - 2
Survival - 1
Animal Handling - 1

Riding Horse
Spear
Short Bow
Trade Good:
D6 Silver
D8 Food
D8 Water
D10 Arrows

NPC Companion: Brynna the Shieldmaiden

So far, so good. Please continue.

Jomsviking please include Brynna's kin and profession (human fighter?) in your description but let me choose her attributes, skills, talents and other stats, ok? =)

Pedrop please also chime in. Tell us if you agree with Brynna the Shieldmaiden as the NPC companion or if you think another profession will be more useful. It's not one for each PC, its one for the party.

Brynna the Shieldmaiden sounds very good to me:) And even more so I'm ok with you making her stats. Should I propose a companion too? (I'm ok with 3 travelers, but the roads are dangerous... probably).

I will create my Druid at today's evening.

We will start with 3 but you can meet many NPCs during your journeys and invite them to join. =)

@Jomsviking I also forgot to ask, do you have the player's guide, the book with the character generation rules? It's not an issue either way, just let me know if you need more or less explanation to build your PC.

I have it.

Great!

I looks like creation process is taking more time than I thought. As I always look for proper art, as I'm visual person:) And I have spent to much time this time trying to decide if I want to go with Dwarf Druid:

or Halfling Druid:


In the end I choose the Dwarf version:) Faramos the Wild. He is a child of Dwarf parents that - like very few - somehow knew how to travel when the Mist was still mostly present. They have visited the village of Willowbrook many years ago, when Faramos was still a teenage (in dwarf terms). They stayed for a few days to trade and rest. But unfortunately one night Faramos leaved their staying place and went to the nearby forest. What was not noticed by his parents at first. But some eyewitnesses have seen him entering the forest that night. Parents stayed in Willowbrook for a few months, trying to look for him almost everyday in the wood - when there was a day or low possibility of the Mist coming. Unfortunately they didn't find him and after some time they lost all hope and moved on... to another place probably. Meantime there were quite a few conflicts between them and indigenous villagers as father of Faramos - desperate and engulfed with grief - started to suspect town's folk of having something to do with disappearance of Faramos.

Then: after exactly one year (maybe even to the hour and minutes) Faramos returned from the woods just as misiteriously as he disapeared. He was visibly older for a year and had a long hair as he would not cut it for a year. He had much more hair on him than he was remembered to have, but probably it is how puberty for dwarfs procead.... as - I think - he was now the only dwarf in village. And: certainly there was something different about him, but no one could put a finger on what it was.

People of Willowbrook - who feel remorse over his disappearance, especially one of the guards - took Faramos over and taken care about him. He behaved mostly normally, but he and even others felt that he has strong connections to the Woods and the animals leaving there. He even sometimes managed to return from the woods after the Mist fell on the sourrunding area - what made some some of the people suspicious of him. But the Guard protected him and knew he has good in his heart. Besides he became best hunter in town, what saved the village from famine a few times and basically allowed him to stay there for so long.

Meantime - through the years - he noticed that his disappearance in the wood, probably - allowed him to develop a specific talents and sometimes he could even take over some futures of animals that he was so close to - since the Meaningful Day.

But now... when the Mist is backing up... and he is almost an adult (39 yo)... he feel a call... probably a call of some 'bigger and deeper forest' that is far away. And he really wants to find his parents and see them once again!

I have submitted a PC to the game, but the stats are mostly from the example - now I am able to continue my PC creation, when I know who he is. Probably it will be fast now, but I will sit to it only at this evening, later.

HTech what you think about those ideas? Are they good for what you have planed? Do you have idea who this Guard that took care about Faramos is?

Jomsviking you see any connections to your character with Faramos ?

Sounds great. The guard could even be Brynna's father. I will let Jomsviking chime in.

Mechanically there are a few bits and pieces to fix in Faramos sheet. Pride, Dark Secret and gear among them. I approved it, nonetheless, so now we both can edit. =)

Tell me when you finish with that so I can take another look.

As I tried to say in my post: I only changed his kin, name and age from was in your example sheet. I will create his stats later, today. So, yes: for now it is basically wrong, but I wanted to have it in game so you could see it and answer eventual questions. I will report when it will be ready from my pov:) It is not, still.

Okay!

Busy with the holiday, will be after it this weekend though.

Okay!