Okay, I think the best way for me to start walking you through character creation might be to show you me making a character.

Each character needs certain things, that will be bolded:

Name: Daria Morgendorffer

Race: Human

Clique and Class: Brain. Mage (the kind that casts magic spells by saying magic words she's learned).

Abilities: Being a Mage in the clique category of Brain gives the following abilities:
--Starting Respect: 1 (everyone starts with 1).
--Starting Gold: 1.
----Stats: stats are +3 Mental, 0 Emotional.
----Daria gets an extra +2 to the moves Figure Out, Persuade, Speak Truth To Power
----Daria gets an extra +1 to the Resist move.
----Daria also can use the Impress move, because she's a writer of prose fiction.


Two Temptations: Jealousy and Loneliness.
--Jealousy: Daria is often jealous of those who are popular without effort. The GM can tempt her to act on this at any time, and if she fails to Resist, she must act upon this feeling.
--Loneliness: When Daria does something to fight her feelings of loneliness, she gets a Marker.

Secret: Daria recently Sabotaged her sister's attempt to get invited to a party. She does NOT want her sister to find this out, because she doesn't want to deal with her sister's likely retribution if she did find out.

And that's it. Everyone gets
1. a name,
2. a race,
3. a class, which for starting characters is linked (at first) to
4. a clique (you can change it when you level up) which gives you
5. two stats: Mental and Emotional,
6. abilities, and then you start with
7. 1 Respect, and some
8. Gold, and
9. 2 temptations, and
10. a secret.

Let's do another one.


Name: Jane Lane

Race: Half-Elf

Clique and Class: Artist. Bard.

Abilities: Being an Artist and a Bard gives the following abilities:
--Starting Respect: 1 (everyone starts with 1).
--Starting Gold: 1.
----Stats: Jane's two stats are +2 Emotional, 1 Mental.
----Jane gets an extra +2 when she uses the Impress move.

Two Temptations: Sloth and Loneliness.
--Sloth: Jane often blows off her schoolwork for drawing, or, when she's at home, painting and hanging out or sleeping. She's smart enough that she makes consistent Bs anyway, which is fine with her. The GM can tempt her to act on this at any time, and if she fails to Resist, she must act upon this feeling.
--Loneliness: When Jane does something to fight her feelings of loneliness, she gets a Marker.

Secret: Secret: Jane spread false rumors about another student-- accidently. She said that Kevin was secretly a dragon in (magical) disguise. He's been having to reassure people that he wasn't for some time now. It was supposed to be a joke-- no one was supposed to be dumb enough to BELIEVE it... Now she just hopes that no one traces the origin of the rumor back to her...


Okay, you get the idea. Go to the PART TWO thread now...
This message was last edited by the GM at 18:14, Wed 18 May 2022.