Hi everyone, as I explained in my casting call I am not setting a fixed number of points per character but building each character based on the overall concept. This is how it is going to work.

First and most important: Give your characters the skills they would logically have from their background. I know the average person has a number of skills related to their job and hobbies that a lot of people do not spend points on when they build a character. I would like to see those skills. The only caveat is that you keep it realistic.

I will be using Hero Games' guidelines (paraphrased) on how skilled a person is by their roll which is the following:

8-: Familiarity (skill levels do not apply)

11-: Competent. Can perform routine tasks easily and can perform difficult tasks with a little effort. Enough to get a job using the skill.

12- to 13-: Skilled. More difficult tasks become easier.

14- to 15-: Very Skilled: Master of the skill. You can just about do easy tasks in your sleep and can perform more difficult tasks fairly easily.

Those are the levels I would like you to keep your skills to with most of them falling in the 8- to 11- range. Higher levels start putting you among the top people in that skill and would make your character too high profile.

Second: Characteristics. All characters will take Normal Characteristic Maximum at no cost. While this will allow you to go up to 20 with your stats I am asking everyone to please keep their stats below 15 except where a higher value is within concept. Remember, normal people have 10s in everything and for the most part all of you are normal.

Third: Powers. I will be working with each of you individually on these. I ask for you to build your power the way you envision it working and then work with me to keep it within both your vision of the character and my vision of the game's power level. My plan is for the characters' powers to build with practice and use so I may ask you to make your character a bit weaker to begin with and surprise you in the game by having it work better than you expected when you need it the most (or when it is the least convenient).

Fourth: Disads. You are free to give your character as few or as many disads as you like but remember, too few and I might assign a mysterious disad or two. The campaign hunted will be taken by all characters and does not count toward your regular disads.

If anyone has any questions or needs clarification or help please email or PM me.

Which forum/thread do you want character 'negotiations' to take place in?

Ok, I just set up a thread http://www.nextgenrpg.com/drupal/forum/proje-character-creation for discussing all aspects of character creation or to post if you need creating your character.

All good points, Nestor. I know about the average Joe/Jane non hero having 8 in their stats. With trying to get the site moved I wrote that in a hurry and didn't clarify myself.

I would like people to keep their Characteristics below 13 unless the concept requires higher. Any higher and they would be starting to get into the realm of Olympic quality athletes, supermodels, and Einstein.

<Lord John Worfin>CURSE YOU, BANZAI!!!

If would depend on the the character concept and background.

I was writing up a blog for Jason and came up with a question.

How are you going to use the pushing rules?  I know standard Hero is 10 pt push, normals is 5 pt, I think, with an ego roll.  House rules vary, etc.

Not a huge deal with the current blog, just determines how I write it, but it might make a difference in the game some time so I wanted to check. 

Cool, thanks.  So with a normal push he can just about lift a car, but with an ego roll he could lift one, really briefly.

How will that work with TK?

Will a push get 5 AP (which in Jack's case wouldn't even get him +1 STR) or +5 STR?

No worries. As long as the story is foremost, I'm cool with any ruling.

Speaking of which, when are starting again? <twitch> <twitch>

NestorDRod wrote:

<twitch> <twitch>

He's twitching!

love it!

Yup.

I'm itching to put some of the story material floating in my head for Jack on paper, so to speak.

He's a somewhat modified version of a character I played many years ago in a Champions campaign set in Canada. Great memories; one of the events that stand out was him acting as midwife at the birth of a demi-god.

I had one of the players withdraw from the campaign so I need to rethink a few things but don't worry the game will still start today, just not as early as I had hoped.

I have posted updates to both the Recruitment stories. I should have updates out to both Man On the Run stories tomorrow and start a new chapter for Innocence lost by Sunday.

I am sorry for your loss.  Take all the time you need.

Jeremiah

What they said.

We're not so far gone we can't understand priorities. Do what you need to do, take the time you need to take.

We're here if you need anything.

We said it before and we'll say it again.

Take your time, KL. The game won't go away and we'll still be here when you're ready.

Things have finally settled down for me to the point where it's no longer a chore to write. Can I get a role call of who's still on board? I know Nestor decided to take a break from all his games, is there anyone else who's cutting back?

Thanks, that's what I thought and why I posted my question.

Ghost present and accounted for.

Thanks!  

At the time I made it, even more so. Now, I don't have the moustache, and my hair is longer.

Still here...and chomping at the bit...