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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 9767336" data-attributes="member: 2205">Meanwhile, here's my four PCs, which took over after that point. All of them had some backstory rolls generated by the tables in Knave 2e, so they're all a little random. For that matter, that's where their names came from too. The bold below is either the random pre-game career or the two personality traits that each character rolled.Stilton Kingsfax. Stilton is pretty much a classic fighter. In fact, given that he rolled randomly that his brief career before the game was as an acolyte, maybe he’s almost a paladin even. He also rolled that his personality traits were formal and can-do attitude. He still has good relations with the church generally. Rather than being an acolyte in a traditional D&D sense,  he grew up an orphan ward of the church, raised by Reverend Willes Garre, and he’s both grateful and appreciative of the church, as well as honestly believing in its mission and its doctrine. But it wasn’t actually ever his intention to make his career out of the church, it was more he was expected to work around the church as part of his upbringing. His formal personality should be interpreted more as a good old fashioned Southern politeness “yes sir, no ma’am” kinda stuff, translated into fantasy terms.<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiottYnv-5_mG7Q3Ugf_v8mRCHAleuqhUda3D8dHqTWC9Q1oSAoOHwPrQ_QzIiJn9nq4HAvDjxXgEvg6lFhx8i-pMvUYdI7hAOOGdW4QE1igALyhxRhe7_eclNhEWmxzLtp4k9GYQyYiE4zlIqbuhpbuWQLZ9t6dh6C7T2P5U1kc_s6bDLWTtFIjQ/s4096/Stilton%20Kingsfax-Portrait%20(1).png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="3708x4096" style="width: 412px" />Bertram Hardmont. The next character is kind of a thiefish character, although he has the shadow sword feature (kind of like a soulknife weapon, if you remember that class from 3e), so he’s also a little bit mystical (plus it saves money on weapons, which is good; neither he nor Stilton rolled up a lot of money.) His randomized career was saboteur, which his player interpreted as he was part of an organized crime gang that also did mercenary work, and he was kind of on the fence whether he was more of an engineer for breaking into places, or a regular street criminal. His two character traits were love-struck and slacker. The latter is easy enough, but we had no idea who he’s love-struck for at chargen, so his player intepreted it as he tends to fall head over heels for every skirt that gives him a smile or a glance, kind of like Bingo Little from Jeeves & Wooster.<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhahvQ1I9xuHoMmY3a0LP8o_7aqoPMZcRdMiEfbv7IBYO8b8RZaND5KTXV-Sd8YSKl5qcaLtgF09nLn_hhwdVKdBMQeyHliRnt2g66IOUs1mRDDgGB7tysmoOo7jqw6ZCD0Ox2YWoB8SdMmPPraIVJks51ldJiYekSZqOG_v3jBF0oJs_mHtRGwrw/s4096/Bertram%20Hardmont-Portrait%20(1).png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="3240x4096" style="width: 417px" />Tabitha Gamcott. One possible target of his brief amorous obsessions might be the final PC, Tabitha Gamcott. She is gunning to become the Old Night equivalent of a sorceress or whatever, once she can get her hands on some magic. In the meantime, she wields a quarterstaff and a bow, and will definitely focus on ranged attacks. Like most women (cf. Paris Olympics women’s boxing) she’s not as physically strong or capable in melee as the men, but I’ll find a way to make sure that she adds to the party, and not just in terms of looking pretty. Actually, the drama once she learns some magic will be pretty entertaining, I think. Old Night has a uniquely Lovecraftian magic system, which I can’t really take too much credit for, because the idea has been kicking around for a long time (I’ve had it ever since reading about WH40k psykers in the middle to late 90s, for instance. Five Torches Deep, Deathbringer, and Shadowdark all have roll to cast with mishaps on natural 1s too, although I’d already used the d20 Call of Cthulhu interpretation of it to come up with my own very similar interpretation).Tabitha’s random pre-game career was pirate. She was orphaned too, but part of a family affair of river pirates, bandits and other ne'er-do-wells on a small boat with her uncle, some cousins, maybe a brother or two who had all turned to crime, and she was often the bait; pretty, innocent looking, etc. She hated this life, however, because she’s at heart not a bad person or a… well, y’know, a pirate by personality, so she bailed when she got the chance and left to explore the world. Curiously, even though she rolled up more money than the boys and has a free weapon, she still ended up literally completely broke; not a single copper penny to her name. She also has very few items of any kind; no way to catch food (other than her bow and arrows, I guess) and no way to cook it either. No bedroll or blanket to sleep in. No winter coat. Not even enough to buy some street food or a night at an inn. She’s financially kind of desperate as the game starts, which I think will make her kind of fun. Her two personality traits came up as gullible and humorless.<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfnRi81BpaNfeC4wxAikfNTaHIeparf0tNj1bk6_9bZ9PcLc3D-8zVoseS8Zrz8yXeBPWMmaAdQpXST9pENbSD7sVOhE5NEKMklFh1pPevi-U1lCUfsWxZmeqXtSR7IpZSBwrXv8I2uqjYFWB_F22i1Xm0YF7vbZGtE-db9N51l9ZnyXn3dmfoFQ/w432-h640/Tabitha%20Gamcott-Portrait.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="432x640" style="width: 353px" />Fitzhugh Grimwatch. The final PC comes from a poor but once noble family of Garenport in the north, but his family has lived in Southumberland since the loss of his family fortune in his grandfather's youth. His father served a distinguished career as a Ranger (a kind of roving commission equivalent to a US Marshall) and is nearing the age where he needs to retire, but he spent as much time as he could teaching young Fitzhugh what he could of his skills when he was home. Born with many natural talents (i.e., very high stat rolls), Fitzhugh took well to these lessons and served for a time as a young junior scout for the Rangers, often wandering far afield on his own. His natural abilitys and tendency to have spent much time along, not to mention his knowledge of the former position of his family has rendered him somewhat arrogant and anti-social in his manners, but he's loyal and brave and has a keen desire to serve his people. <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivP1nf5KtPtm5522M2a_PnTYj60WxN-yN5J7vEXCQIRi0yenEe34wl4sDTuxqRi7Vy-ebhzAeAPkTVySZ9TSxKAoGxLj_iaG3TEyJhVPg_H6k-jakz1tuVcvgM_V1BmTG8JJF4KsETDzRGHVJQY3zfh4NN0SdUrXh-WXaK6EtlreWymD2mc_1Upw/s1024/Alternate%20Fitzhugh-Portrait.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="888x1024" style="width: 395px" /></blockquote>

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