SOTDL: Chargen

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Primary Traits

The first things to select and rank are your primary traits. Primary traits for this game are Attributes, Distinctions, and Skills. These represent the core of your character, and one of each primary trait is used in every dice pool, making up the foundation of each action.

Attributes

Attributes represent your character's innate potential separate and apart from training. Each character is ranked in 6 attributes:

| Charm | Endurance | Finesse | Power | Reason | Will |

Rank one (1) at two (2) at and three (3) at

Add one (1) Attribute to your dice pool for every action

Charm: How well you interact with people socially

Endurance: Physical stamina

Finesse: Agility and manual dexterity

Power: Strength and raw physical force

Reason: General breadth of knowledge and ability to discern and absorb information

Will: Tenacity and strength of mind

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Distinctions

Distinctions represent specific facets of your character. Each character has three distinctions and each is ranked at or depending on whether the player feels a given distinction will help or hinder the character in that situation. A player who opts to use their distinction at a earns a plot point (that may be used immediately if desired).

| Birthright | Profession | Wyrd |

Add one (1) Distinction to your dice pool at either or for each action.

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Birthright

Your character's birthright distinction outlines both nationality and social standing and determines your initial three skill bumps.

Click here to see PC Birthright Options.

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Profession

Your Character's Profession defines their role in society and the party and determines your next three skill bumps.

Click here to see PC Profession Options.

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Wyrd

Click here to see PC Wyrd Options.

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Skills

Skills represent specific training your character has undergone and how good they are at particular actions. All skills start out ranked as Untrained. Then your distinctions each grant you raises to certain skills - no skill may be raised above

After that, distribute an additional 9 points among your skills as desired - again, no skill may be raised above

Add one (1) Skill to your dice pool for every action

Craft: Covers all instances of making things. Forge a sword. Craft. Build a wall. Craft. Write a sonnet. Craft. Etc

Fight: Covers all instances of physically attacking another being with fists, feet, or melee weapons or touching someone who might not be willing (hugs, handshakes, etc)

Fix: Covers repairs of all kinds, from carpentry to masonry to weapons and armor

Influence: To persuade another to believe or do a thing

Know: Used to put together information or to check existing character knowledge of a thing

Labor: Covers general muscling/sweating/activitying, etc

Move: To get from point A to point B. Usually in a timely manner, but also when the way is dangerous or uncertain

Notice: Covers seeing/hearing or otherwise . . . noticing . . . something you otherwise might not. Often used as a counter to Sneak

Perform: The use of grace, acting, dancing, playing an instrument, etc to influence or impress an audience

Pilot: To operate or assist in operating watercraft or gliders

Ride/Drive: To ride a beast or operate simple land vehicles (wagons, carriages, chariots, etc)

Shoot/Throw: Covers accurately firing or throwing projectiles with tools, weapons, or by hand

Sneak: Covers doing things unseen/heard

Survive: Covers physical survival, usually of the elements, obtaining sustenance, and finding shelter

Track: Following quarry by the markings and leavings of their passage

Treat: Covers treatment of wounds, poisons, sickness, or psychological conditions

Trick: Covers any kind of deception from lies to slight of hand, etc

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Secondary Traits

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 five points to spend on knacks. Each point either buys a new knack at or steps up an existing knack one step. Untrained skills cannot have knacks and no knack can be ranked higher than the skill it is associated with.

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SFX

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Signature Assets

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