Quicklinks: Character Creation Steps / Lifepath / Characteristics / Professions
It is time to create your adventurer. The following is a system for developing them. This system creates reasonably competent characters, but who they are is up to you. Suggestions are provided in each step for choices that can help you build the most exciting hero. You should have a blank character sheet handy and maybe another sheet of paper for notes. You can download digital versions at https://www.sagaborn.com/d100heroes/.
Character Creation Steps:
These steps will lead you through the path to create a character.
- Lifepath: This is first because it allows you to figure out story elements with your hero. Knowing the hero’s species, profession, and history will help inform the mechanical choices you will make later.
- Characteristics: These are the abilities that build a base for everything else. Look at your Profession and skills and make sure your highest characteristics match up with those skills.
- Assigning Skills: You get points for your Profession skills as well as a pool of points for your personal skills. You start with 250 Profession skill points and INTx10 personal skill points to distribute. SagaBornSagaBorn is the name of the TTRPG system created by Michael ... More D100A d100 is a 100-sided die. In SagaBorn it is used to determi... More is completely skill-based, so make sure you build the skills for the style of play you want! But don’t worry, everytime you use any skill successfully, you have a chance to level it up at the end of the game night.
- TalentsExtraordinary abilities that define your character. More: These extraordinary abilities allow you to customize your character even further. While there are no classes in SagaBornSagaBorn is the name of the TTRPG system created by Michael ... More D100A d100 is a 100-sided die. In SagaBorn it is used to determi... More, these talentsExtraordinary abilities that define your character. More may have familiar names to each Path. You are only limited to the amount of Talent points you earn, branching out and becoming the hero you wish. At character creation, you start with 3 Talent points.
- Equipment: You have starting equipment and gold based on your Profession. Resources and money can be rare in Atheles, so you may not have the fund to buy everything you want. What better reason to go adventuring!
- Finishing Touches: Appearance, personality, and more can be figured out now, but if you are undecided, just give some generalizations and build it out later on.