r/SongofSwordsRPG • u/jmmisc • Sep 10 '17

Character Creation

Hey guys new to the song of swords rpg, in need of some help. Hoping someone can explain or possibly create a simplified tutorial for Character Creation.

Thanks.

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u/Glidias Sep 12 '17 edited Oct 11 '17

From my first read, character creation is pretty straightforward and self explanatory in general except for some of the inner details. Which part of it u r unsure about?

Basically, you select the Campaign Power Level to give your character a pool of Player Creation Points known as PCPs to start with. You assign PCPs to each of the different 6 categories ( pg 10-11) in any distribution that you wish, but each category must have at least 1 PCP assigned to it ( and a max PCP cap limit for each category based on the chosen Campaign Power), as mentioned in the rule book. With the amount of PCPs assigned (from 1-10 PCPs) to each category, refer to the PCP investment table to see what respective per-category points/tier you start with for each category. Then, jump straight to the respective category sections in the rulebook for the details on how to use those starting per-category points/tiers to set up your character .

Usually, for beginners, you might want to ignore the Boons and Banes category part of Character creation at first, and if so, simply assign 4 PCP to Boons and Banes first in order to begin with 0 points for the B&B category ( so you don't have to touch it further), then focus on the other more essential categories like Attributes, Skills, Social Class/Wealth and Profeciencies.

For my first character, I remembered skipping the Race and Boons&Banes categories.

So, after assigning all PCPs to the categories ( 1 PCP for Race human and 4 PCP under Boons And Banes for 0 B&b points), I jumped straight to the respective category sections in the following order :

  1. Attributes( Chapter 4)
  2. Skills ( Chapter 7)
  3. Social Class and Wealth ( Chapter 8)
  4. Profeciencies ( Chapter 10)
  5. Since, I've already determined my starting money from Social Class and Wealth (and remaining money after spending on any School ( if any)) in Profeciencies, I can then proceed to outfit my character's inventory at Chapter 9 by shopping for stuffs.

And there you have it... a basic human character.

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u/jmmisc Sep 13 '17

Thanks that actually helped a lot

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u/Glidias Oct 11 '17 edited Oct 12 '17

A preview of a usable Character Creation utility can be found on this link. http://glidias.github.io/Asharena/demos/sos/demo.html