PHOENIX POINT CHARACTER CREATION SERIES
If you live a remarkable life and die a meaningful death you have the chance to gain the powers of a Phoenix and return, but it is a long, harsh series of trial. Who were you in your first life? How did you die? Why did you come back? These are the critical questions of Phoenix. Elegy is one of the Shadovar, a traveling people long distrusted because of their tradition of necromancy. The Empire provides a number of cultures to choose from. When you make a character in Phoenix, the first question is always who you were in your first life – before you died and became a Phoenix. The paragraph that follows is a brief glimpse into the character’s past. This makes Elegy an expert at stealth and lets her play more cards when she attacks from hiding… enhancing her talents as an assassin. Elegy has a base set of Lessons that are common to every Shrouded Phoenix, but not every Shrouded knows Shadow Dancer. Lessons are ongoing abilities that you can use at any time. Traits are cards that are in your Action deck, and you can only use them when you draw them. Was it in her first life? Was it during her time in the Crucible, the limbo where she became a Phoenix? You don’t have to tell a story to use a Trait… but if you do, you can get more out of it. But assuming that she hasn’t actually seen it during gameplay, it’s up to Elegy’s player to come up with a story about WHERE she’s seen it before. If the players are trying to understand a mysterious plague that’s overtaken a village, it would help if Elegy had Seen This Before. In addition to these powers, Traits can also enhance any action if you can explain how they are relevant to what you want to do. Psychometry is her unique Shrouded trait, and lets her burn her mystical energy to learn secrets about anything she touches. Sneaky enhances her natural stealth, Killer Instincts helps her find weaknesses in an opponent’s defenses, Brilliant Deduction reveals clues, while S een This Before lets her assist an ally’s action. Each Trait provides her with a special ability, and the Traits she possesses make her an excellent investigator and assassin. Lessons and Traits are the things that differentiate Elegy from every other Shrouded Phoenix. Let’s take a look at Elegy, our iconic Shrouded Phoenix.
However, one of the most important elements of Phoenix is having a personal stake in the conflict… so even with our pregens, we want you to answer a few questions. To help with this, we provide a set of pregenerated characters so you can jump right into the game. However, when you’re playing your first session or playing a one-shot you may not have time to go through this process, or you may feel that you don’t know enough about the world to create your own story. Rich Malena has created an excellent video that walks you through character creation, and you can see how that works here. When you play long-term, you build a character from the ground up, selecting your School and your Traits and then answering questions about this process. Phoenix: Dawn Command is a roleplaying game in which you play a champion who’s returned from death to try to save your world from a host of nightmares. There were a list of traits, a name, a class… and questions. There were no numbers, no dice rolls and modifiers. I stared down the character sheet in front of me.
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