Alver character builder
System for the creation of characters to populate Alver
Background
The things you've seen and done in your life so far have gone a long way to make you who you are...
Backgrounds form the basis of your character. They affect your skill distribution and what traits are available to you.
Childhood backgrounds
What was your childhood like? The stats effects here are permanent changes to your base stats. E.g. with a -1 condition stat your character can never have above 9 condition, and with a +1 charisma stat they can never have below 2 charisma.
Background
The things you've seen and done in your life so far have gone a long way to make you who you are...
Backgrounds form the basis of your character. They affect your skill distribution and what traits are available to you.
Adulthood backgrounds
When you grew up, what did you do? Your adulthood background/s affect your initial skill distribution. You can take multiple backgrounds if your character moved around, but beware that each background you take reduces the skill bonus from all your backgrounds by 1/2 for each background after the first. You may take up to 3 backgrounds total.
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Stats
Stats represent the core components of your character’s person. They are used for rolls against certain checks. Stats may change (very) slowly through dedicated training in-game, or quickly and temporarily through gameplay effects. Your childhood background affects your base stats
Traits
Traits represent the tangible outcomes of your character’s core personality, physiology, nature, and history. They should not change during the campaign, however under exceptional circumstances they might. What traits are available to you was decided by your adulthood background/s.
You can have between 3 and 6 traits, which have positive, neutral, or negative balance. Positive traits give +1 to your trait balance, neutrals give 0, and negatives give -1. You must have a final balance that is no higher than +2. Negative traits override positive traits (e.g. Nerves of steel + Acrophobia still results in fear of heights).
Identity
It's time to put down your name and bring life to your character through an image and backstory!
Portrait (optional)
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Name
Description and Backstory (optional)
WARNING! Too much text to print nicely on A4
Result
My character
Rolls = d20 + Stat + Skill modifier (★ = 2, ★★ = 4, ★★★ = 6, ★★★★ = 10)