Character Creation

An integral part of the OSR experience is letting the dice inspire you to imagine what sort of character you end up with, compared with selecting and crafting various stats and abilities. In the Borg series of games, this means randomising your abilities, hit points, weapons, armor, equipment, and since we're playing with the optional classes, your class as well. There are also tables to reflect your character background and personality traits.

Let's see what everyone rolls up first, before I make recommendations if necessary to tweak those rolls. I'm always open to doing things differently if it makes for a more enjoyable gaming experience for everyone.

Character Creation

Please use this thread to post your rolls.

1. Roll 1d10 for your class.
We will pause a bit here to see if there are overlaps. I imagine people might want to play different classes, or might want to trade or negotiate or see what's leftover.

Then,
2. Roll 3d6 for each of the four abilities. Remember to add the class modifiers before rolling.
3. Roll 1d6 for your class feature. (But if you're not feeling the result let me know, and then choose).
3a. Roll for any other class features you may have.
4. Roll for hit points and virtues according to your class.
5. Roll for ryo.
6. Roll 1d6 and 1d12 for equipment.
7. Roll 4d20 on the Awful Afflictions, Broken Bodies, Terrible Traits and Grim Chronicles tables. (If they don't match your envisioning, it's okay to swap.)
8. Finally roll 3d6 for Honour.

Glad everyone jumped into those class rolls really quick. Here's where our first rolls landed:

Nebula - Bakuto
Redcroc - Corrupted Shinobi
Ogion - Forgotten Ronin
Jomsviking - Yamabushi
Jiggedy40 - Yamabushi, then Sword Saint
Gtg620q - Reckless Sumo
Grendar - Bakuto

Remember it's okay for more than one person to play the same class. That said I also thought it'd be fun to have everyone try different classes, as we're aiming for now.

Since there are two overlaps, I'm certainly thinking let's have the fates (命運) decide with rerolls!

For Jomsviking / Jiggedy40, Jiggedy did their reroll already, so we have Yamabushi and Sword Saint respectively. Unless Jomsviking would also like to roll again? I do read you signaling "perfect", so we could leave this resolved.

In which case, for Nebula / Grendar, same deal, keep or reroll. 1d5 for the remaining four classes plus yours: Erudite Samurai, Drunken Monk, Onmyoji, Bakuto, Wild Dancer.