Dramatis Personae: Character Generation

[VictoriaSilverwolf]

Copying Rooter's new character here, for easy reference.

NAME: Vincent Courcelles de Labrousse
CHARACTER CLASS: Magician
BACKGROUND: ???

CHARISMA: 9
INTELLIGENCE: 9
WISDOM: 11 (including +2 adjustment)
STRENGTH: 9
DEXTERITY: 9
CONSTITUTION: 9
PERVERSITY: 9
HIT POINTS: 4
DAMAGE BONUS: None

SPECIAL ABILITIES: Esoteric Knowledge (+1), Use Incantation, Perform Ceremony,
Create Talismans, Employ Pact

WEAKNESSES: Magical Implement, Power Object

EQUIPMENT: 1 dagger, 1 set of ordinary clothes, a haversack, ceremonial clothes, 1
Talisman, 1 Magical Implement (pentacle), 1 Power Object (a ring), a book of magic spells and theory, a dried root, blank journal, pen & ink, salt, candles, chalk, a skin of wine.

0 LEVEL SPELLS: Beguile, Create Flame
1ST LEVEL SPELLS: Detect Evil, Obscuring Mist

[jp1885]

NAME: Lepus

INSPIRATION: Catweazle, Fagin (Oliver Twist), Vinculus (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell)

CHARACTER CLASS: Hedge Wizard (Gypsy/Magician) (+2 wisdom)

BACKGROUND: Lepus was born somewhere in Eastern Europe into an obscure Gypsy tinker clan of sinister reputation. From an early age he was known as being 'faerie bred'. He would often be found talking to trees, singing to rivers or laughing at the moon.
Singer of unusual songs and baffling rhymes, some of the clan elders would have exiled the boy, were it not for fear of offending the fairies, whose blood no doubt flowed in his veins. Others positively valued his strangeness, being practitioners of the mystic arts themselves, and trained Lepus in the rough magick that passed for clan lore.
As the clan wandered from place to place mending pots and sharpening knives, Lepus studied as much as he could, given the circumstances. Mixing arcane knowledge with the vital Roma skills of survival, the young man grew proficient in both. Ever the outsider, he eventually grew tired of life within the clan and set out on his own to experience the wider world and all the hidden mysteries within.

PERVERSITY: 12

PERSONALITY: Lepus can best be described as 'strange', or possibly 'mad as a march hare'. He may appear overly deferential and obsequious, but his eyes will always betray the scheming and cunning within. He will often chuckle when no joke has been said, sing when no tune is played or yelp when no blow has been struck.

APPEARANCE: Hunched and scruffy, Lepus usually resembles a walking pile of rags. At best his clothes are a mass of patches, the most recognisable items being his long overcoat and battered tricorne hat. The whole ensemble is usually garnished with a magpie's nest of wooden carvings, stones, glass and pieces of metal. Physically he is tough, thin and wiry with a beard almost as long as he is tall.

MOST MEMORABLE CHARACTERISTIC: The ink on his body. Lepus' form is covered with strange symbols, tattooed in various places. These may be spells that he has learned, occult pictograms he has unearthed or maybe just pretty pictures conjured up by his fevered imagination.

LEVEL 2

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BASIC ABILITIES:
Charisma: 11 12
Intelligence: 15
Wisdom: 16 (+2) = 18
Strength: 15 19
Dexterity: 15
Constitution: 14 10

HIT POINTS: 6 10

HIT DICE: d4

DAMAGE BONUS: 1

SPEED: 9

ARMOUR: 0

SPECIAL ABILITIES: Gypsy Curse, Sleight of Hand (+1), Esoteric Knowledge (+1), Use Incantation, Create Talismans
WEAKNESSES: Desired by the Dead, Social Discrimination, Magical Implement (a stylised hare carved on a flat stone pendant that hangs around his neck), Power Object (his tattoos)

LEVEL 0 SPELLS: Mending (Incantation), Know Direction (Talisman)
LEVEL 1 SPELLS: Banish Vermin (Incantation), Purify Food and Drink (Talisman), Detect Evil (Incantation), Unseen Servant (Incantation)

ASSETS: Attractive to Fairies, Gift for Languages, Occult Lore, Sharp Eyes, Sharp Hearing, Wily

AFFLICTIONS: Bad Reputation, Creepy Presence, Horrible Body Odour, Horrible Manners, Slow, Ugly

WEALTH: Whatever he can carry

EQUIPMENT: A bizarre assortment of sticks, stones, bones and other knick-knacks; clay pipe and evil-smelling tobacco; crumpled pages torn from strange grimoires; whetstone for sharpening knives; dagger (for protection); pot and cooking paraphernalia; flint and kindling; tin whistle.
Amulet protecting against poisons.
Rune to dispel restless spirits.