Player Options

The Player Character (PC) is the lens through which players interact with the game world. Each player creates a single PC to roleplay. This handbook, the player handbook, provides the choices available to you to create your character. If you're not sure what sort of a character you'd like to play, go to Develop a Concept to get some ideas.

Step by Step

1. Choose a Class, a character template that defines the source of the PCs power, defines which mechanics they get, and describes how they fit into the setting.
2. Choose a Role, what you want to have as your general focus in combat.
3. Distribute Skill Points Skills represent qualities that a character possesses that can be described purely by a number, the skill’s adjustment. PCs start with 15 skill points that can be distributed among 19 skills. At first level, a PC can put at most 3 skill points into a single skill.
4. Fill your Feature Slots Features are a limited resource that allow characters to gain various features like weapon attacks or elemental affinities. A PC’s Archetype defines what slots they have available.
5. Calculate your Stats After filling their open feature slots, players have gained skill bonuses. On the character sheet, they update the skill value to include the points + values and also calculate a small handful of derived stats that represent the PC’s health, attack, and defense.

Special Modules

If your Game Master (GM) uses any of the following modules, you may have additional choices to make.

• Sail the Turquoise Seas: Choose a Berth. In the Caribbean-inspired high seas fantasy of the Nipacian Archipelago, players gain a specific role related to ship life in addition to their other choices.