Classes and Careers

in Creating Your Character

This section will detail all the careers and the 10 social classes, along with four uniquely advanced 'heroic' types. But those won't apply for the table below. This table of course is the random generation table, as with all parts of character creation, you can randomize for bonus exp. Simply roll a d100, check your species, and see where you fall. If you are content to take that option, then gain 50 exp. If you aren't content, roll 2 more times, and check where your rolls land. If you are content with one of those three options, then gain 25 exp. If you still aren't happy, pick your own, but gain 0 exp.

Starting Wealth is determined by your Status rating and score. Its a rising score 1 to 5, and with three categories. Those are the same in my world, the name has just changed, since different currency. They are Copper, Silver, and Gold. There are 12 Copper Stars to a Silver Moon and 20 Silver Moons to a Gold Sun.

Status Tier	Income/Rank of Status (1-5)
Copper	2d10 Copper Stars
Silver	1d10 Silver Moons
Gold	1 Gold Sun

  CAREER ADVANCEMENT:

To advance in your career you must pay 100 exp, but before you can, you must meet the requirements of the current step. Otherwise it costs 200 exp. These will be detailed here. First you must have the appropriate number of skill advances as listed in the table in eight career skills. Do note, if you are say tier two, their are six skills listed there, but this rule includes the skills of the previous tier as well which adds another eight. You do NOT need to get all fourteen skills to ten advances, you just need to pick any eight of them of your choice. As to talents you must have at least one instance of one of the four talents listed acquired on your character. Your career characteristics must also have the number of advances listed to step up to the next rank. For characteristics this does mean ALL the characteristics that count as career characteristics at the tier you are on. So the new one you unlock at tier 2, for example, you must get ten advances in, along with getting your other three from tier one to ten advances before you may upgrade careers. You may also change careers for 100 exp within your social class, but immediately drop down to tier one (but no equipment loss) to do so, however you can only do so by using an endeavor for 'educational change'. You must also use another endeavor to maintain your guild relations if you intend to keep a guild license, from your previous career and this is a thing for the rest of the game for you. Trappings are not just acquired for free past tier one. Those are the expected trappings you should have before you leave that tier. So you must acquire them. Now below the exp costs for advances for career characteristics, skills, and talents, and how it scales, is listed. This will also include non-career stuff, though some skills and all talents should not be accessible outside your career without using a 'commission' endeavor to seek a trainer and then using a 'training' endeavor. However the exp costs will double so GMs you can decide how resource expensive you wish to make training and gaining skills outside a player's profession.

Career Tier	Characteristic Advances Required to Tier Up	Skill Advances Required to Tier Up
1	5	5
2	10	10
3	15	15
4	20	20

Advances	XP cost/advance Career Characteristics	XP cost/advance for Non-Career Characteristics	XP Cost/Advance Career for Skills	XP Cost/Advance for Non-Career Skills
0-5	25	50	10	20
6-10	30	60	15	30
11-15	40	80	20	40
16-20	50	100	30	60
21-25	70	140	40	80
26-30	90	180	60	120
31-35	120	240	80	160
36-40	150	300	110	220
21-45	190	380	140	280
46-50	230	460	180	360

Improvement	XP Cost
+1 Talent	100 XP+100 XP/Time the Talent has been taken.
Leave a Complete Career Tier	100 XP
Leave an Incomplete Career Tier	200 XP

Character Creation Initial: So upon rolling (or selecting if you did not go with random dice chance for extra exp) your class and career, you immediately gain 40 free skill advances to spread amongst the 8 career skills of your first tier. You are allowed to put no more than 10 of these advances in one skill. This is exactly enough to get 5 advances in all 8 skills to get you as close as possible to being able to jump to tier 2. You also receive 5 characteristic advances to spread amongst the three career characteristics as you wish. Finally you get to select and gain a single free instance of 1 of the four listed tier one career talents, and you start with all the trappings of the class, and the trappings of the first tier of your career, in question, as well as one income bracket for your status (Copper, roll 2d10, start with that many copper stars. Silver, roll 1d10, start with that many silver moons, and Gold starts with 1 gold sun)

Career Talents cost 100exp+100 more/instance of the talent you already have. Non career talents are 200exp+200 more/instance of the talent you already have.

Once you have met requirements or decided to just spend 200 exp, you advance. Note you must go to one tier away from you. This does mean you CAN go backwards if you feel the need, perhaps to acquire a talent from that level for cheap, as talents do not carry forward, only skills and characteristics. So what this means is if you are tier two, and spend the 100 exp (or 200) you may drop to tier one or advance to tier 3 but cannot jump to tier 4.

If you go all the way through your career, all four tiers, you may retire the character, and make a new one, starting with 1/2 total exp earned by that first character, as they retire to from the dangerous life of adventuring to the mildly/moderately less dangerous life of settling down somewhere they can make a living within a city. OR you may spend 0 exp, declare you wish to use the educational change endeavor and pick a new career in your class, or spend 200 exp and use the endeavor to go to the first tier of a career you choose in any class, or spend 100 exp and move into tier one of an advanced career you qualify for, or spend 300 exp and do that into any advanced career you do not qualify for.

Career's will have a nice descriptive section for you, but also, there will be a laid out pair of simple tables, as described below;

Career Advance Scheme; This little table will show the ten Characteristics and mark the 6 that will be career characteristics with the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 to inform you which tier you gain access to which characteristic. The format is simple. Three characteristics for tier one, followed by one new one per tier.

Career Path; This section will be laid out as below;

Tier Name-Status: The general name for this level of competence, the 'path name' if you will. Along with the Status, which effects income and the Status rules, along with minimum spending to maintain appearances, etc.

Skills: This will list the skills that this tier offers you for advancement to add to the list for the career skill cost versus the double cost of non career. These scale at a rate of 8 at tier one, 6 at tier two, 4 at tier three, and 2 at tier four, giving you a grand total of 20 options, of which, if you intend to advance all the way through the career, you will need to get 8 of them up to 20 advances each. In your first tier there will be a skill in italics. This is your career's income earning skill, all the way through all four tiers. This does not change!!! So it is recommended to most players, you would be advised that one of your eight skills you intend to get 20 advances in? Be that skill.

Talents: Every tier will offer 4 talents, of which you will need to acquire at least 1 instance of one. Unlike skills and characteristics, career talent discount only applies whilst you are in that tier of the career. If you advance, you leave the talent discount behind.

Trappings: This section will list some gear, generally things one would be expected to have to be ready to move forward in their career, however a few would need to be acquired before advancing (Such as a workshop at tier 3, you would need to have that lined up before you advanced from tier 2.) and some would be acquired by advancing into the tier (such as a guild license.) So if you wish to go all in on the roleplay homework you and your GM will need to discuss this before advancing. Most of it is just suggested gear one can buy/acquire as loot, so one can hand-wave the other two types of gear, and it shouldn't really break immersive feelings, just justify it with two or three sentences of 'oh this and this occurred, and I did this, talked to that person.' type of thing.