All Creation Character Creation

Character Creation rules for All Creation.

Merits and Flaws

Merits and Flaws are allowed within reason, with appropriate changes and restrictions:

1. Merits and Flaws that force the ST's hand are banned
2. Merits and Flaws with 1e-specific mechanics need updating
3. Some Merits and Flaws require clarification.
4. In all cases, merit and flaw combinations need approval. Abusive is fine, game-breaking is not.

Banned Merits

• Destiny is not permitted. Characters forge their own, and all that.
• Legendary Artifact is banned. Not that they won't come into play, but such things need to be agreed upon by all Storytellers.

Banned Flaws

• Dark Fate - again, characters forge their own.
• Dying

Clarified / Changed Merits

• Driving Passion applies to your motivation (Duh) - making it stronger.
• Eternal Vow needs to be worked out with another Player.
• Jack of All Trades is already possessed by all Exalted, and they have no need to take it. Non-Exalted must take this merit in order to avoid the -2 die penalty for untrained abilities.
• Mutations use the new Wyld Mutations as their base, naturally. Some of these will not be permitted.
• True Paragon has nothing to do with the Paragon Nature, since they don't exist any longer.

Backgrounds

See the Backgrounds link for the Lieutenant background.

Main Characters

Players are initially permitted one Main Character (a Celestial Exalted) per Chronicle.

• No two main characters of a player may share a caste, nor may two PC characters share a caste within a Chronicle. Diversify!

Essence may only be raised once (to four) at character Creation. Characters may not begin with Sidereal Martial Arts.

• Character and anima descriptions are mandatory.
• XP will be awarded for backgrounds based on the length of time the game has been progressing, to give late characters a chance to catch up.

Callings

In addition, Main characters (but not, generally, NPCs) begin with a Calling. Callings are used to encourage diversification by massively reducing Charm costs, and give people a select set of abilities that they excel in.

Choose three (3) of your favored or caste abilities (at least one -must- be a caste ability), or select a package from below.

• Calling Abilities begin at ●●●○○, and may be raised to ●●●●● with standard Ability Dots, or with one bonus point.
• Calling Abilities may have four specialties. 1 bp buys four specialties for them.
• Calling Abilities are considered Prodigal (as the advanced version of the Merit). Thus, they gain an additional bonus die to all rolls.
• Calling Abilities have discounted Charm costs (see House Rules).
• Calling Abilities cost (Current Rating - 2) to raise.

Feel free to make your own calling, the following are some examples:

• Exemplar: Integrity, Resistance, Lore
• Inquisitor: Martial Arts, Awareness, Bureaucracy
• Itinerant: Linguistics, Occult, Presence

• Architect: Bureaucracy, Craft, Lore
• Deacon: Melee, Stealth, Survival
• Paladin: Melee, War, Resistance

• Champion: Athletics, Ride, War
• Prelate: Medicine, Occult, Performance
• Justiciar: Awareness, Integrity, Investigation

Lunars instead choose one of their Caste attributes for their Calling.

• Calling Attributes begin at ●●●●○, and may be raised to ●●●●● ●○ (they are Legendary).
• Calling Attributes are considered Legendary, as the Merit.
• Calling Attributes have discounted Charm costs (see House Rules).
• Calling Attributes cost (Current Rating*2) to raise, and require no training time.

Solars

• Begin with 10/8/6 for Attributes
• Begin with 35 ability dots, instead of 28
• May select one Favored Attribute (Costing 1 less bonus point to raise per rank and reducing the xp multiplier by 1, as Lunars)
• Begin with 5 background dots, instead of 7
• Begin with a twenty (20) Charms instead of 10, ten of which must be Favored, Caste, or Calling (see below)
• Begin with an Essence of three (3) instead of two
• Begin with 25 bonus points, instead of 15

Lunars

• Begin with 10/8/6 for Attributes
• Begin with 35 ability dots, instead of 25
• Begin with five (5) favored abilities, instead of two (including survival).
• Begin with 10 background dots, instead of 7
• Begin with a fourteen (14) Charms or Knacks instead of 8, seven of which must be Favored, Caste, or Knacks
• Begin with an Essence of three (3) instead of two
• Begin with 25 bonus points, instead of 15

Non-Main Characters

Minor Characters

Players may make additional characters as Henchmen (heroic mortals), Retainers (normal mortals), or Followers (normal mortal extras). These may be allied with their main or major characters with the appropriate background, or simply built as general antagonists or scenery.

Such characters are expected to be treated appropriately. Those not allied with a main or major character should act that way.

Major Characters

The Lieutenant Background describes what qualifies as 'major' characters, who actually utilize experience points. Those not allied with a main character are expected to be played appropriately. Players are expected to diversify their free major characters in a chronicle appropriately.

4 and 5 dot characters ought to be unique individuals. Players are not to control more than one ●●●●○ Lieutenant of a given type per Chronicle, and no more than one ●●●●● character. This limitation does not apply to main characters that they have as lieutenants of another main character.

Major character purchases and developments must be approved like any other. They are expected to be played.

• Major characters require a background and description. They don't need to be long - a few sentences describing history, goals, personality and appearance is fine.