Editing SOTDL: Chargen (section)

=Secondary Trait Sets=
The next things to select are your secondary traits. Secondary traits for this game are '''Knacks''', '''SFX''', and '''Signature Assets'''. These represent optional specializations and resources you might be able to bring to bear on an action. Secondary traits are not automatically added to every roll, but if one or more applies to an action, it adds to the dice pool for that action.

==Knacks==
Knacks are player defined facets of a particular skill that they have chosen to specialize in. For example, a player with a high Fight skill might have a knack for wielding '''Improvised Weapons''' and get to add the die for that knack for using something that is not specifically designed to be a weapon (like a mug or a bench) as a weapon in a fight.

Knacks are only eligible to be used with the skill they are associated with. So a character with the '''Anatomy''' knack associated with their Treat skill cannot use it for an advantage when using the Fight skill (unless they also bought it for Fight).

Players begin with three (3) points to spend on knacks. Each point either buys a new knack at [[file:d6a.png|24px|d6]] or steps up an existing knack one step. Untrained [[file:d4a.png|24px|d4]] skills cannot have knacks associated with them, and no knack can be ranked higher than the skill it is associated with.

:'''Special:''' Characters with Know ranked [[file:d6a.png|24px|d6]] or higher may purchase the ''Tongues'' Knack. This has two (2) effects. 
::'''First''', the character is fluent in one additional language per (tongues) die step, starting at [[file:d6a.png|24px|d6]] without needing to roll.
::'''Second''', they may roll Reason/Know to understand or communicate roughly in languages they are not fluent in.

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==SFX==
SFX stands for special effects. These are rules exceptions unique to certain aspects of your character.

Each of your three (3) distinctions come with the Hinder SFX

:'''Hinder:''' ''Sometimes a distinction works against you.'' <u>Roll [[file:d4a.png|18px|d4]] instead of  [[file:d8a.png|20px|d8]] to gain 1 PP</u>

Additionally, players get to add two (2) custom SFX to one (1) or two (2) of their distinctions during chargen. More may be added later by spending XP during play.

Each distinction may accumulate up to three (3) SFX (including Hinder).

SFX guidelines may be found in the Prime handbook on pages '''61-63''' (excepting limits). Do not use the guidelines for distinctions found on pages '''191-213'''. (Those are for Powers, which is not a trait this particular game uses).

If you do not have access to the book, just tell me what you want an SFX to do and I can write one up for you.


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==Signature Assets==
Signature assets are permanent assets recorded on the character sheet rather than the Complications and Assets table, and as such they don't drop off at the end of a scene or a story arc. 

They might represent a piece of gear or equipment or a meaningful personal contact. For this game, signature assets should not represent innate qualities or skills but only things external to the character.

Signature assets are always rated either [[file:d6a.png|24px|d6]] or [[file:d8a.png|24px|d8]] and may never be raised beyond [[file:d8a.png|24px|d8]]

Each player starts the game with two (2) points to spend on signature assets. Each point either buys a new signature asset at [[file:d6a.png|24px|d6]] or steps up an existing asset to [[file:d8a.png|24px|d8]]

Optionally, players may opt to spend these points on additional knacks (or knack upgrades) instead of assets. The rules that [[file:d4a.png|24px|d4]] Untrained skills may not have knacks and that no knack may be ranked higher than the skill it is associated with (of course) still apply.

'''Some clever Signature Assets''' I've seen in past games include a Boneweaver with the ''Fingerbone of a Warlord'' that he regularly used to get tactical advice, a Harbinger who made one of her ''Summoned Spirit Weapons'' a signature asset for the bonus attack die, and a Sidhekin with a pet ''Crow'' that came to her call so she always had a creature close at hand to merge with..

'''Note:''' It is possible for other characters to use another's signature asset within the fiction, but when they do they do not get to add that asset's die to their pool.

'''Note:''' [[file:d8a.png|24px|d8]] signature assets may have up to two (2) associated SFX, and [[file:d6a.png|24px|d6]] may have one (1). These, however, cannot be purchased during chargen. They are only available through the expenditure of XP during game play.

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==Background/Bio==
When you are done with traits, the rest is all story stuff rather than mechanical. Name. Description. Short backstory, etc. 

While you are writing your Backstory, be sure it answers the following questions:
* How did you come to be known by the title of your Birthright Distinction?
*What people were you born to? Corsair? Druidan? Islander? Kindred? Or from folk farther afield? 
::''This last option will require a little more description about your people.''                                           
*Where are you from?
::''Again this will require a little more description if you are from off the established map.''

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==When You Are Finished==
Link your character sheet to your character's name on the character table at the top of the main page. If you use a wiki page, (with the supplied template or otherwise), there is nothing else to do. If you would rather use a google document or some other off-site format, just be sure to set your permissions so I can see the document with a single click, no sign in requirements, etc. (I do not need editing privileges).
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