Character Creation

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Character Creation:

- Contact/PM Sum of All Fears for character concept approval.

-Currently a player's first character will not count against the site character limit.

- New Characters will be posted as a New Topic to "Recruitment Forum"

- All books used for character creation can be found Here

-Characters will be made based on the creation guidelines found in BattleTech: A Time of War (AToW) via the point buy system.

- 5,000 XP start

- Attributes cost 100xp per level (All Attributes begin at 1)

- Trait points (TP) cost 100xp per TP

- There are both Negative and Positive traits. (Characters will have no more than -500xp in negative traits) (Exceeding -500xp of negative traits will be approved by exception by the DM)

- Skills. Use XP cost chart on (p. 60 AToW). Standard is the normal xp cost.

- No Clan Characters or traits/backgrounds…for now…

- *****The use of Life Modules is forbidden. You can look at them to get a sense of background you wish to roleplay, however they will NOT be used for character creation .

- Custom Vehicle Trait is limited to Inner Sphere (I.S.) Vehicles. +6 and +7 will result in a Star League era vehicle.

- Only Authorized Phenotype will be Normal Human

- Age restriction: No older than 24 years old.

- Characters will have a Character Sheet, an Equipment Sheet, and a Background Sheet.

[Sum of All Fears]

Instructions:

Please add the below list to your character sheets for XP tracking purposes.

--The below is a template. It will be used every time XP is spent.

-- A new list will be created if XP is spent on different days. Basically track the XP spent by date.

-- All XP spent prior to 11 August 2024 will not be tracked. All future XP expenditures will be tracked by the below list.

--Players will not adjust their Spent XP totals on their character sheets. The GM will adjust those based on the Expenditure lists.


XP Expenditure:
Date:
Skills:

• *Skill Name*: Previous Level | New Level | Amount of XP Spent | Date of GM Validation |

Abilities:

• *Ability Name*: Previous Level | New Level | Amount of XP Spent | Date of GM Validation |

Traits:

• *Trait Name*: Previous Level | New Level | Amount of XP Spent | Date of GM Validation |

Code: Select all

[b][u]XP Expenditure:[/u][/b]
[b]Date:[/b]
[b]Skills:[/b][list][*]*Skill Name*: Previous Level | New Level | Amount of XP Spent | Date of GM Validation |
[/list]
[b]Abilities:[/b][list][*]*Ability Name*: Previous Level | New Level | Amount of XP Spent | Date of GM Validation |
[/list]
[b]Traits:[/b][list][*]*Trait Name*: Previous Level | New Level | Amount of XP Spent | Date of GM Validation |
[/list]