Character Creation

Please discuss your characters in this thread. Generally speaking no rolling is necessary.

Get Rich: 2 Lives + 0 Extra CBP
This is the default for Ashlands: M.E.R.C.s campaigns. Your MERCs will start off
somewhat weak, but you have room for a few deadly errors over the course of the
campaign.

For the most part there are no restrictions on character creation but if you aren't sure about something mechanically or narratively this is the place to ask those kinds of questions.

Blink. I'm here. And opening up the books per say.

GRRR. I can't find a single spot to tell what bonus you get per stat level!

What bonus is there for agility if 25, 30, 35 or even 40???

New to d100 system and if the book isn't plain about this stuff then I have no way dealing with it.

Hope this helps.

I'm assuming the character you submitted MERC isn't finished yet and you want me to leave it in place for you to edit on.

Well, you looked at it and know it is a starter. Just lets you know I'm working on it. And plan to do more soon.

Gotcha, gotcha. I'm still very new to this site so I haven't fully parsed out what the norms are yet.

That sure does. LOL. page 37 of 625 when earlier they talk about using it.

Oh for sure, lol, Reddus and Wolfhound have some work to do when it comes to structuring their rulebook.

Race: Devilkin is currently my choice. Lot of work to do with that.

And a lot you can do with that. Though in my very limited experience the devilkin race really incentivizes being up close and personal rather than sharpshooting. Though a sharpshooting devilkin is likely to surprise some folks who likely won't be expecting it. I just realized it was @NobleClover who mentioned wanting to play a Devilkin Sharpshooter.

Yeah. Organization of the book is not nice.

Smiles. The character is coming along.

Name: Cursh
Race: Devilkin
Gender: Female

Claws and tossing fireballs at people are her combat skills mainly right now.

She is ex-security officer. Robbery came. She got knocked out. Building came down. Sole Survivor. Scape Goat. Now lives out of motel.

Still have to do:
Spend Starting Experience Points and Gold: 1000XP and 150 Gold.
Get Rich: 2 Lives + 0 Extra CBP

Looks great so far. Let me know when you finish up, and if you wouldn't mind, hiding a lot of the block text/rules.

I have lots of reformatting and such to do. I'm still making sure I got everything included in before I arrange it all. I need to understand how to use and abuse the 1000 exp's. 150 gp is clear.
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Get Rich: 2 Lives + 0 Extra CBP is bit confusing. I have 4 lives instead of 2 lives by that? And I guess 0 CBP can be ignored.

2 Lifes (Start)
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Off The Force:
# Gains an Enemy Reputation with chosen Security Firm I probably need a security firm name. One that is scape goating me for the whole thing.

She is ex-security officer. Robbery came. She got knocked out. Building came down. Sole Survivor. Scape Goat
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Lucky me just paid my $50 for rent.

Motel: Upkeep per Month: $50
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Do I need more info about my Demonology as who I'm a beneficiary to with my Fireball throwing ability?

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Grr. This book lacks an index.

Claws: Gains the Natural Weapons Trait and a Rank of the Unarmed Fighter Talent

Unarmed Fighter (X)
rerequisites: Unarmed +10
Cost: 200XP, Ranked
Effect: Each time this Talent is taken, upgrade the Damage die used by the character for his
Unarmed attacks (this also includes the Damage die for Unarmed weapons as well, including
those granted by Pacts). "X" is equal to the Damage Die used for the character’s Unarmed
(Melee) Attack Actions, with most character’s Unarmed Damage starting at 1d6+StB with the
Blunt Damage Type.
Note that the character with this Talent can also choose to use a smaller
Damage die than his default.

What does this mean for me?

Claws: Gains the Natural Weapons Trait and a Rank of the Unarmed Fighter Talent

Natural Weapons (X)
Natural Weapons are things such as teeth, claws, talons, and, rarely, ranged attack such as
lash-like tongues or spat acid. These are weapons that are inherent to the creature.
A Creature with this Trait is count as always being armed with its Natural
Weapons that are listed in parentheses in its Traits section, which it uses with the Unarmed
(Melee) Skill (unless otherwise noted), these Natural Weapons count as being on a specific
Hit Location (noted on the profile), and these cannot be Disarmed, unless they are targeted
with a Called Shot and struck with a weapon that has the Destroyer Quality (and subsequent
ly Destroyed). Such destruction can be resisted with a successful +0 Difficulty Fortitude
Test, which does not require an Action.
Additionally the Damage dealt by creatures with this Trait is proportional to
their Size Trait (see the Size Modifiers chart on the next page) and is usually of the Blunt,
Slashing, or Piercing Type. This Damage die is added to their Strength Bonus to determine
the Damage caused by their Natural Weapons.

What is my Claw damage?

Melee Weapon Rank 1
Ranged Weapon Rank 1
General Rank 1
Defense Skill Rank 1

The above is not listed in the skill area?

Go to the next page, look in the size chart for the natural weapon damage. For someone size 4 its 1d6.

Those are skill categories, it means you can pick whatever skill to add a rank in from that category that as you wish. And below that are the defense and general skills.

Take a looksie. See what you think. Still need to do some description of her.

We desperately need more PLAYERS.

Can't argue with that lol.

Your sheet's looking not too shabby for a game that doesn't have a template for character sheets yet. Though for an added touch it'd be great if you'd spoiler a lot of the stuff that's just a copy paste of the rules from the rulebook.

Character Sheet is reformatted.

Lovely. I'm going to go ahead and hit accepted now.

I wonder if things wouldn't be easier if we just used google sheets and share the links in the character sheets. That way there's easier formatting, and also the potential to make auto-calculating fields. Sure it's not as convenient as having a character sheet directly on the site but I think with the complexity of MERC's sheets it just saves everyone the headache of having to learn bbcode.

What and miss out on all the fun (headaches).... :) ... Half the fun of making a character is just making the sheet. But very pointless without more players.

Well it's been less than a week, I don't know how recruiting for games usually goes around here, if people tend to pile on shortly after recruiting ads go up or what. But I'll give it until the game's been up officially for 14 days in total, if we don't have any prospects by then I think that's a pretty good indicator to hang the hat up and think about a different game.

Usually, games fill over rather fast. In say, couple of days.

I kind of suspected as much. Yeah I'll leave it all open until the morning of the 14th. After that, I'll look into something else I might want to try running.

Considering running ghost ops in Savage Worlds if this unfortunately doesn't pan out.

Well that ones also an 'if', yeah? no guarantees that, that one will also get off the ground, haha.