Table of contents

• Character Creation
  • Name, Background & Traits
  • Ability Scores  
  • Hit Protection  
  • Inventory
  • Starting Gear
• Name & Background (d20)
  • Female Names
  • Male Names
  • Surnames
  • Background
• Character Traits (d10)
  • Physique
  • Skin
  • Hair
  • Face
  • Speech
  • Clothing
  • Virtue
  • Vice
  • Reputation
  • Misfortunes
• Starting Gear (d20)
  • Armor
  • Helmets & Shields
  • Weapons
  • Expeditionary Gear
  • Tools
  • Trinkets
  • Bonus Item (roll on table indicated)
  • Spellbooks (d100)
• Equipment List (Prices in Gold Pieces)  
  • Armor
  • Weapons
  • Gear & Tools
• Optional Gear Packages  
  • Cleric
  • Dowser
  • Dwarf
  • Elf
  • Fighter
  • Friar
  • Knight
  • Magic User
  • Thief
  • Ranger

Character Creation

Name, Background & Traits

First, choose or roll your PC’s name and background from their respective tables. A PC’s background informs their potential knowledge and skills.

Next, roll for the rest of your character’s traits (appearance, speech, mannerisms, beliefs, reputation, etc.) on the Character Traits tables.

Finally, roll for their age (2d20+10).

Ability Scores  

Player Characters (PCs) have just three attributes:  

Strength (STR), Dexterity (DEX), and Willpower (WIL). When creating a PC, the player should roll 3d6 for each of their character’s ability scores, in order. They may then swap any two of the results.

Expand For Example

Ines rolls for her character’s STR, resulting in a 2, a 4, and a 6, totaling 12. The next two ability rolls result in a 9 for DEX and a 13 for WIL. She decides to swap the 12 and the 9, for a character with 9 STR, 12 DEX and 13 WIL.

Hit Protection  

Roll 1d6 to determine your PC’s starting Hit Protection (HP), which reflects their ability to avoid damage in combat. HP does not indicate a character’s health or fortitude; nor do they lose it for very long (see Healing). If an attack takes a PC’s HP exactly to 0, the player must roll on the Scars table.

Inventory

Characters have a total of 10 inventory slots: a backpack with six slots, one slot for each hand, and two slots for their upper body (such as the belt, chest, or head). The backpack can also double as an emergency sleeping bag but only if emptied of its contents.

Most items take up one slot, and small items can be bundled together. Slots are abstract and can be rearranged per the Warden’s discretion.

Bulky items take up two slots and are typically two-handed or awkward to carry. Anyone carrying a full inventory (i.e. filling all 10 slots) is reduced to 0 HP.

A PC cannot carry more items than their inventory allows. Carts (which must be pulled with both hands), horses, or mules can increase inventory.  Hirelings can also be paid to carry equipment.

Starting Gear

All PCs begin with:

• Three days’ rations (one slot)
• A torch (one slot)
• 3d6 gold pieces

Roll once on each of the Starting Gear tables to determine your PC’s armor, weapons, tools, and equipment. If indicated, roll on the Spellbooks table with a d100 (or roll 2d10, using one die as the ones place, and the other as the tens place). Pick only one item for each result.

See the Equipment List for related armor, damage, and slot values. Smaller items can sometimes be bundled together into one slot.

If you would like something closer to traditional classes, refer to the list of Optional Gear Packages.

Name & Background (d20)

Female Names

Male Names

Surnames

Background

Character Traits (d10)

Physique

Skin

Hair

Face

Speech

Clothing

Virtue

Vice

Reputation

Misfortunes

Starting Gear (d20)

Armor

Helmets & Shields

Weapons

Expeditionary Gear

Tools

Trinkets

Bonus Item (roll on table indicated)

Spellbooks (d100)

Equipment List (Prices in Gold Pieces)  

Armor

Weapons

Gear & Tools

Optional Gear Packages  

Cleric

Dowser

Dwarf

Elf

Fighter

Friar

Knight

Magic User

Thief

Ranger

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