CHARACTERS

1. Design character concept, idea and story
   Depending on the level of the character (told by the GM), plan his history, current situation, personality etc. everything roleplayed.
2. Select race
   Select a race from those available, most common ones are shown below.
3. Mark free improvements
   As described below, characters gain free improvements from levels. Mark these to character sheet. If generating higher level character, halve total destiny points (before any faith additions), rounding up.
4. Select other improvements
   Characters usually gain 3 selectable improvements each level. Select these and mark them to character sheet
5. Select improvement things
   Attribute, magic and faith levels require further selects.
6. Pick up the equipment
   Select standard equipment for the character. Unless GM says otherwise, you are free to select one magic item for each level beyond 10, see treasures.

EXPERIENCE

LEVEL IMPROVEMENTS

• 1 health level for each level under 11, and +1 for each 5th level after that (15,20,...)
• 1 combat level for 3rd level (4,6,9,...)
• 1 skill
• +1 save for each 6 levels
• One destiny reroll for each 5th level (5,10,15,...)

• 1 combat level*
• 1 attack level*
• 1 magic level*
• 1 extra magic point and spell
• 1 faith level*
• 1 skill
• 1 attribute level

Example: A level 20 (human) character has:
• 6 combat levels
• 20 skills
• 12 health levels
• +3 saves
• 4 destiny rerolls (halved to 2 if generating a new character)
• 60 picks
...and so the final character can be, for example:
• 20 combat levels (14 picks)
• 20 skill levels
• 12 health levels
• 20 magic levels (20 picks)
• 15 attribute levels (15 picks, 5 things)
• 11 extra magic points and spells

IMPROVEMENT EFFECTS

Combat level

Add combat level/6, round normally, as to-hit bonus. In addition, add +1 to armor for each 6 levels.

Attack level

Add +1 to attacks for each 6 levels.

Skill

Select any skill from skill list or invite a new one. No skill can be taken more times than current level/3, round up.

Magic level

The character can use potent magic and gains one magic pointand spell for each level.

Faith level

The character is a devoted priest, see below.

Attribute level

For 3 levels, select either strong, agile, perceptive or mental. You cannot take the same attribute twice, nor can you take an attribute you already have. Alternatively, you can select one resistance (only fire, cold, lightning, poison, disease or death) or one extra health level (total health levels limited to level!)

DWARF

ELF

HOBBIT

HUMAN

These are skills that can be taken for each character level. No skill can be taken more times than current level/3, round up. So level 7 character cannot have same skill taken more than 3 times. When a skill is tested, the character has a base dice equal to skill level. This is modified by the situation and other modifiers.

Acrobatics

The character handles climbing and ropetricks.

Ancient Lore

The character knows about lost kingdoms, lost languages, myths and gods.

Bestiary

The character has knowledge about different creatures of the fantasy world

Booksmanship

The character is well trained with reading, writing and common knowledge

Evaluate

The character can evaluate jewelry and gems.

Healing

The character is skilled in healing. He may heal an additional restoration for any character per day, if he has proper herbs and tools available. This is automatically successful, but requires time and nutrition, and the character can heal up to skill level creatures each day. In addition, he may try to heal diseases and poisonings.
Moreover, the character may try to stop the bleed of a wounded creature. To succeed, one action must be used to bind the wounds with proper bandage, and a successful skill test is required. If the test is failed, the character may try again in the next turn.

Language

The character can speak selected language; no need to take this more than once.

Magic items

The character knows about magic items, spellwriting, mystical runes etc. and has alchemical training and can brew potions.

Mystics

The character knows about outer planes and inhabitants therein.

Sleight of Hand

Pickpocketing, lockpicking, trap setting and disabling...

Survival

The character can swim, surivive in wilderness, fish and hunt etc.

Stealth

The character is skilled in silent movement and hiding

Warfare

The character is a veteran of many battles. He knows about creature attacks, effects and warfare tactics, and knows how to fix armor and weapons and to evaluate them.

NOTES

WEAPONS

Melee weapon

Axe, sword, warhammer, mace, spear... whatever is appropriate. Does 1 point of damage in combat.

Thrown weapon

Knives, axes, javelins.. does 1 point of damage when thrown, apply -1 to-hit for each 10 meters. Most weapons can be used in melee, too, but GM may confer penalties for that .

Big weapon

Big axes, swords or hammers. Can be effectually wielded by strong characters, do 2 points of damage. If used by non-strong character, does only 1 point of damage and -1 to-hit.

Bow

Ranged weapon, doing 1 point of damage with -1 to-hit for each 20 meters, with minimum of -1

Long Bow

As bow, but uses longer arrows and apply -1 to-hit for each 30 meters.

Crossbow

As bow, but requires one extra action to load, unless user is strong, but can be kept loaded for short periods more easily, but cannot be used to fire indirectly, and thus no minimum penalty.

Heavy crossbow

As crossbow, but does 2 points of damage, and requires a winch or one extra action if the user is strong.

ARMOR

Light armor

Hard leather, scale or chain armor, with partial protection. Adds 1 to armor value, reduces stealth by 1.

Heavy armor

Plate armor with chain in joints, possible shield. Adds 2 to armor value, but reduces agile-attributes by 1 (minimum 0), stealth by 1 and move by 2.

Helmet

Big helmet reduces any perception by -1, but gives protection against certain special attacks.

Shield

Shield confers at least 1 parry (combat armor bonuses) levels. Thus it is quite useless for characters with 6+ combat levels, unless confer other bonuses or the character loses any ability to dodge and parry for some reason)

MIRACLES

PRAYING

GEAS

GRANTED MIRACLES

Light deity

2nd level: Heal once per day per faith level
5th level: Detect evil, turn undead or evil ward when needed
7th level: Banish evil instead of heal as needed
10th level: Regenerate or Bless once per day for each 10 faith levels
15th level: Restore instead of heal as needed
20th level: Resurrect instead of regenerate as needed

Geas:

• Never harm an innocent
• Help those in need
• Never betray or abandon your friend or comrade
• Fight only in self-defense, except against unholy creatures
• Never use any death magic, except in dire need

War Deity

2nd level: Immune to fear, remove fear as needed (only removes, not an enchantment)
5th level: Heal once per day per faith level
7th level: Strength instead of heal as needed
10th level: Regenerate once per day per 10 faith levels
15th level: +1 destiny reroll, resistant to death
20th level: Resurrect instead of regenerate as needed

Geas:

• Keep your word of honor
• Always accept a challenge
• Never flee from a combat
• Always fight with an honor
• Only use sacred weapons of the god (like swords, axes and bows)