Character-Creation Thread

Perks and Flaws are up in Charts and Stuff.

Alright, not bad, only one outstanding mistake, think I did pretty well haha. Made the change.

Great! I didn't go through them all, just picked one that looked a bit off.
Questions from you, Kaneda, about any skills? Or the perks and flaws?

It just flavor that I've used successfully in D&D as well before representing old retired characters coming out of retirement. What is even is a level in the world the game depicts. Is the skills he gets when leveling up, just relearning old tricks or getting in the swing of things.

I was thinking of the character being in his 30s.

>shrug< OK, we'll run with your idea, but it's just fluff.

Re. "What is a level?" I have yet to see a game where there is literally no concept of level of any kind because, not only is it a concrete way of rewarding players just for game play (even if they don't get "treasure" in the game's genre) and helping GMs determine an appropriate "difficulty level" of opposition to the PCs, it also provides a game mechanic to model the way people grow and develop over time and activities, whether this growth takes the form of skills that individually increase in "success probabilities" or "inherent qualities" of experience that may or may not have something to do with one's profession.

Re. "skills": Well, this is where modelling breaks down some. This game system gets a little more loose and noisy with this idea because there seems to be little or no justification to improving/learning skills other than a mechanical one. RoleMaster does a bit better job with this by having players pick skills for their new levels before the new level gets reached; IIRC, Warhammer Fantasy RPG does kind of the same thing with its emphasis on career paths. The idea in both games is that the PC spends some unspecified and undifferentiated amount of time "learning" about the new skills before levelling up. I tend to prefer the 1st ed AD&D system where, in order to get up to the new level, your PC typically has to find someone else to train them, spending time and money on the project.

The only questions I got for skills at the moment are for later because they will be about rolls so we can wait for that.

I guess for Perks and Flaws, if I could just get a description of what the ones I picked do for me, that would be appreciated, but other than that no questions at the moment.

(NB: I put up the list of Perks and Flaws with their costs/bonuses.)

Vigor 2: makes your PC slightly ie one point more difficult to stun (stunning is the lightest form of damage a character can get)
Reflexes: increases your DEX resistance modifier by one point (typically, this makes you harder to hit with a ranged weapon when you know you're the target, but it might come into play in other situations)
Observant: adds a bonus of one to any Awareness-perception checks
Danger Sense: adds a two-point bonus to Awareness-intuition checks
(I notice you have the Awareness broad skill only; the above two perks will work with this skill, but they won't be quite as effective than if you had the proper specializations.)
(NBB: max of three perks)

Obsessed: generally, this flaw means your PC has some sort of "trigger" (a person, place, or thing we have to determine before the start of the game) that possibly (the more points you get from this flaw, the more likely this possibility is) causes him to forget what he's doing or focus entirely on the trigger instead of the matter at hand (no matter how desperate the situation). This is very much like James Bond's very well known reaction to women.
Poor Looks: basically, what it says on the tin: something about your PC (and it doesn't have to involve physical beauty) causes a one-point penalty on any PER checks wherever the flaw might be noticed eg having this flaw involving nose-picking won't matter if, for example, the person your PC's interacting with is blind (until someone tells the blind person about said nose-picking)
Dirt Poor: first, starting funds will be _way_ lower than anyone else who doesn't have this flaw; second, your lower-class background sticks out like a sore thumb to those who care even minimally about that sort of thing eg people of higher social standing, causing a one-point PER penalty in such situations; finally, the flaw creates an NPC to whom your PC owes money and who needs to be paid regularly (or something bad happens)

Attribute list and explanations posted.

Added Motivation, Moral attitude and character traits!

Kaneda, did you see that a PC can only have a max. of three Perks?

Will take the following Flaws: Old Injury 4, Code of Honor 3

Will take the following Perks: Fortitude 4, Reputation 3

His motivation will be On A Mission and he'll have a Honorable Moral Attitude and for Traits I'll go with Confident and Honest.

I did not and will get rid of Vigor, and will use the points to add to my rifle skill.

Furmyr, if you check in the Game Details section, you'll see I didn't list Reputation as a playable perk; pick something else. Also, let me know your ideas for Old Injury and Code of Honour.

Kaneda, what is the trigger for your PC's Obsession?

I'm thinking Code of Honor would be don't kill prisoners, treat surrendered soldiers properly and no underhanded tactic with illegal weapons. He has decided that he has to be better than those we are fighting, or we'll just turn into them.

Old Injury, I was thinking he took a piece of shrapnel in his knees from an IED and thought his days as an adventurer was over.

Having been injured though, he is used to it, so I'll switch out Reputation with Vigor 3.

It's been a busy day. I'll get to this tomorrow.

So, for the Code, your character will accept a surrender and not abuse the prisoner (or allow them to be abused), right? Will your character trust the prisoner to keep their word?

I'm not sure what you're getting at with your other point: "no underhanded tactic with illegal weapons". What does this mean?

As for the Old Injury, does this mean any use of his legs for anything other than walking causes the damage? Standing for a long time, like hours eg on guard, might also count, too.

He expect them to keep their word yeah.

I was thinking he won't shoot someone in the back. Won't attack during a cease fire. And won't use weapons that cause undue suffering, especially to civilan population (land mines, chemical weapons).

Yeah, standing on end for hours could cause pain and suffering. But he'll still do it if it is the job.

Hmm. It might be a little _too_ much to have _both_ "prisoner ethics" and "dirty-tricks ethics" . . . .

Howabout this? You can have one or the other sets of ethics for the established bonus or have both and get an additional two bonus points.

Personally, I'd imagine playing with both sets of ethics might make playing this PC a bit too difficult . . . .