This here is where your character info goes! Please reply to this thread with a single post that contains your character application and a link to your character sheet (or a forum version of your sheet, if you prefer).
Character Creation
We will be starting at Veteran level with 48 Attribute points and 1,500 credits. A quick summary of character creation can be found in the spoiler button below.
Creating a character can be done in any order, but the following order is basically what is found in the rule book.
Choose Traits: You already have your character concept based on your application, so start off picking some Assets and Complications that mechanically fit with that concept. Assets start on page 41 of the book and cost Minor Asset2/Major Asset4 points. Complications start on page 48 and give you Minor Complication2/Major Complication4 points. You have to have at least 1 of each, and you can have at most 5 of each.
Generate Attributes: You start the game with 48 points, +/- what you gained/spent for Assets and Complications. Use these points to buy dice sizes for your Attributes: Agility, Strength, Vitality, Alertness, Intelligence, and Willpower. Dice cost points equal to the number of sides, so if you still have 48 points after choosing your traits you could (for example) spend 8 points on each attribute to have them all at 1d8. You could also have 1d4, 1d6, 2d8, 1d10, and 1d12 if you wish. How you spend the points is completely up to you!
Calculate Derived Attributes: You total Life Points are Vitality + Willpower, and your Initiative is Agility + Alertness
Choose Skills: You get 68 points to spend on skills, buying dice just like you did for Attributes. Skills are listed on page 56, and each skill includes a list of Specialties that are more specific applications. Remember that skills are general categories that max at a d6. So if you wanted to take cooking at 1d10, for example, you would spend 6 points to have Artistry at a d6 and the other 4 points would go into the Cooking specialty to make that a d10. So yes, according to this system if you are a Professional Chef then that also makes you a Competent game designer.
Finishing Touches: Between the choices above and your application, you will have already made a lot of choices like background, gender, appearance, and so forth. But choices you make in character creation might have expanded that information a bit, so feel free to "spruce it up" as they say. The BIG thing you want to do here at the end is buy equipment for your character. You have 1,500 credits to spend here, and while you do save whatever money you don't spend there is no guarantee that you will get shopping opportunities in this one-shot. Also, the company hiring you is setting your crew up with a ship so don't waste your money on trying to buy a firefly model of your own.
Character Sheets
This site hosts sheets for Serenity characters (as well as ships), and it is recommended that you use them to keep track of your characters. However, if you have an online alternative that you want to use then you are welcome to do so.
Either way, I just need a link to the sheet and permission to view it!
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Last edited by Homestarbaby; Sep 22nd, 2021 at 10:53 AM.
Clean white jumpsuit. Brand new. Full face racing helmet with polarized visor obscuring her face. Snake had even found a pair of white gloves somewhere.
The Stig costume is both iconic, and, at a big racetrack at least, not too hard to rustle up. The main trick is finding gear that isn't all plastered with brand names and emblems and junk.
The same for Declan, only flat black. Not any specific “character,” but a good counterpoint to the white.
With features entirely obscured, all you need to do to project an aura of utter assurance is keep still and avoid fidgeting. Walk steady and unhurried. Make “eye” contact with the other racers, pause. Turn away as though they are unimportant, mere pieces of background scenery. Pause to scan the crowd before getting into the Flounder too, but don't wave.
Elly brings the Flounder's engines online a little early, and gooses the throttle, letting everyone hear the rumble and whine of engines far above anything you'd expect to look at the racer's exerior.
On the exterior she looks still and collected, but on the inside Elly's heart pounds and her face is flush in the close confines of the helmet. A grin stretches her face as she looks at the start line. Movement in all the glorious types and twists are Elly's bread and meat, and racing the sweetest treat of all. Snake never realized he didn't need blackmail to get her into the race. The man might kick himself to know he probably hadn't needed to offer any significant payment either. Just being able to race is enough for Elly. Or at least normally. The money would most assuredly be useful in paying off some of their debt. Money she'd been screwed out of in the last job, so it darnwell better come in cash if she wins here today.
Elly tucks a slip of paper into her breast pocket.
The Stig stands tall on the podium fists on hips as she scans the cheering crowd. In the background fire crews are finishing flushing out the Flounder's engine compartment with fire suppressant foam. The Stig accepts the trophy, examining it for a moment before non-chalantly tucking it under one arm.
From her breast pocket she takes a folded slip of paper and hands it over to the announcer. "Ah, oh, it seems there's something The Stig wishes me to read.
Ahem. Technology is a great thing. It brings us to another new bleeding edge each time we think we've reached that seeming maximum. That place where people say “this is the limit,” technology finds there is yet more that can be done. But it can also be a crutch. A distraction from that perfect union of man, machine, and movement that a true racer seeks. You who have been humbled today, ask yourself this. Is what I see before me in my cockpit truly helping me win, or is it bloated distraction? Am I letting “assistance” become a replacement for the skill I might have without it? Can I pare away any fat and be better for it? Hopefully you can answer this for yourself so that you're ready. Because I will be back sooner than you think, and you will need to be ready."
__________________ I live again!
Thanks to all the great great GM's. Especially: Makenshi, Birched, Savoylen, Davion, and Homestarbaby.
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