Short Character Design: Mahalala Campaign

TOC
1. Changes
2. Overview
3. Goblin Area Choices
4. Points
5. Skills
6. Magic
7. Advantages/Disadvantages
8. Contacts
9. Equipment/Status

1. Changes   

1. Dropped starting CP from 12 to only 8
2. No more character templates
3. Many skills are base 5 now.
4. Changed character sheet, removed most uncommon skills
5. Added some new skills and magic
6. Made chart of points for age.

2. Overview Initial Choices: name, race, age, birth season, gender, region/culture, religion, personality, Character Points (CP): Distribute 8 character points (CP) can be added or subtracted to most areas. See range limits for statistics. Points for Age: Chart is for Goblins, for humans subtract three from age and see chart. Skills: Every third year (round down) after becoming an adult, get one more CP. Spirit: Each year as an adult or later increases spirit by one. These spirit points can be used to increase spirit or can be used for enchanting. Faithful Spells: Each year past age 15 provides 5 experience for spells skill points (SP).  Note: that for spells at age 15-20, a character will probably need to spend CP to get more spell skill points.

Age CP Spirit Spell 15 8 3 0* 16 8 4 5* 17 8 5 10* 18 9 6 15* 19 9 7 20* 20 9 8 25* 21 10 9 30 22 10 10 35 23 10 11 40 24 11 12 45 25 11 13 50 26 11 14 55 27 12 15 60 28 12 16 65 29 12 17 70 30 13 18 75 31 13 19 80 32 13 20 85 33 14 21 90 34 14 22 95 35 14 23 100 36 15 24 105 37 15 25 110 38 15 26 115 39 16 27 120 40 16 28 125 * see note

3. Goblin Area Choices 

Name: See list of common first names. Characters will probably be part of the same clan and family. Unmarried males may be from other families, because they are former ronin. Some characters could be clan advisors from the Imperial Clan or from other prominent clans in observer roles.

Race: goblin or human. See Advantages/Disavantages for racial variations like (hobgoblin, ogre, golden skin curse, fairie blood, etc.)

Age: choose any age. Older characters have more experience.

Birth Season: year is made of four seasons, pick number: 1: Spring, 2: Summer, 3: Fall, 4: Winter.

Gender: goblins and humans are male and female

Region/Culture: we will be playing in Apulia, with human or goblin culture.

Religion: most goblins are members of the faithful, but a few continue their mystic tradition. See below for more details.

Personality: choose Positive, Negative, Neutral personality trait, and Passion(s). These personality traits are not all-consuming, just indicative of general attitudes.

Positive: Forgiving, Honorable, Loyal, etc.

Disadvantages: Deceiptful, Gullible, Jealous, Proud, Vengeful, etc.

Neutral: Reserved/Outgoing, Emotional/Analytical, Passionate/Dispassinate,

Passion: choose at least one positive and negative passion, check with GM for assistance of groups

Positive	Negative
Like (Social Group), (Reason)	Dislike (Social Group), (Reason)
Admire (Social Group), (Reason)	Hate (Social Group), (Reason)

4. Points 

Character points: each point increases or lowers a statistic by one.
Dam: Damage Bonus
Hits: Hits
Spirit: strength of spirit. Mana based on spirit. Spirit usually increases once a year, except under special situations.
Appeal: Affects all social skills
Learn: Affects all physical skills
Study: Affects all mental skills
Focus: Affects all magical skills

Skills
Each CP gives 8 skill points (SP) to allocate.
Raise skill from negative or 0 to 1: 1 SP per point, then add bonus
Total Skill: 2-5: 1/2 SP each, but most skills start at base 5
Total Skill: 6-15: 1 SP each
Total Skill: 16-20: 2 SP each
Total Skill: 21+: 3 SP each
For example: Base 5 skill, raised to 20 would cost 19 SP (10+10 = 20)

Maximum Starting Skills
No skill can start above 21 unless one other skill is 20+. No skill can start above 25 unless three other skills are 20+. No starting skills can be 30.

Combat Skill Minimums:
Once all points are allocated, combat skills have minimums based on commonality of skills.
Melee skills have a starting minimum of half highest melee skill, round down, attack or defend, Avoid included.
Missile skills have a starting minimum of half highest missile skill, round down.

Spells: One CP add three spells (and increase Capacity). Number of different starting spells. Total points of all spells must be less than Capacity. CP cannot be gained by reducing starting spells. See below for spell choices.

Skill modifications affect experience success roll and modify experience gain.

Race	Youth	Adult	Middle	Elder	Legend
Human	0-17	18-29	30-49	50-69	70+
Teutan	0-17	18-29	30-49	50-69	70+
Goblin	0-14	15-24	25-39	40-49	50+
Minotaur	0-20	21-27	28-35	36-44	45+
Newt	0-20	21-32	33-54	55-79	80+

Mods to Base	Youth	Adult	Middle	Elder	Legend
Damage	-1			-1	-2
Hits	-1			-1	-2
Spirit
Appeal	+1		-1	-1	-2
Learn	-1			-1	-2
Study	-1			-1	-2
Focus	-1			-1	-2
Spells/Capacity	0	3	6	12	25

Mods to Base	Human	Teutan	Goblin	Minotaur	Newt
Damage				+4	-1
Hits (Base 3)		+1		+4
Spirit (Base 3)
Appeal			-1	-1
Learn			+1
Study				-2	+1
Focus				-2	+1
Move	3	4	3	4	2

Mods to Base	Hobgoblin	Ogre	Fairie Blood Human
Damage	+1	+3	+1
Hits (Base 3)	+1	+3	+1
Spirit (Base 3)
Appeal	-1	-1	+1
Learn	+1	+1
Study		-2
Focus		-1
Move	3	3

Max Range	Human	Teutan	Goblin	Minotaur	Newt
Damage	-1 to +2	-1 to +1	0 to +3	+2 to +6	-1 to +1
Hits (Base 3)	2 to 5	2 to 6	2 to 5	4 to 8	2 to 3
Spirit (Base 3)	2 to 5	2 to 5	2 to 5	2 to 5	2 to 5
Appeal	-1 to +5	-1 to +5	-2 to +4	-2 to +4	-1 to +5
Learn	-1 to +5	-1 to +5	+0 to +6	-1 to +5	-1 to +5
Study	-1 to +5	-1 to +5	-1 to +5	-3 to +3	-1 to +5
Focus	-1 to +5	-1 to +5	-1 to +5	-3 to +3	-1 to +5

Max Range	Hobgoblin	Ogre	Fairie Blood Human
Damage	0 to +3	+2 to +5	-1 to +2
Hits (Base 3)	2 to 5	4 to 8	2 to 5
Spirit (Base 3)	2 to 5	2 to 5	2 to 5
Appeal	-2 to +4	-2 to +4	-1 to +5
Learn	+0 to +6	+0 to +6	-1 to +5
Study	-1 to +5	-2 to +2	-1 to +5
Focus	-1 to +5	-2 to +4	-1 to +5

Notes: Hits limits listed above do not include magical modification.

5. Skills 

6. Magic Rules 
Magic Commonality
Faithful Magic
Mystic Magic
Divine Magic

7. Advantages/Disadvantages

Limit of two advantages and two mixed and two disadvantages, four total

Advantages
Bloodline: Old noble family, new noble family, non-noble family
Family Reputation: famous, respected, tainted
Family Fealty to King of Riga: longtime vassals, new vassals, no fealty
Human/Goblin Friends (other culture)
2 CP, Hero of the masses
Fated (Positive) (must suggest a fate)
Fairie Blood
Fairie Friend
Bloodline: goblin (1: hobgoblin, 2: ogre, +1: Goldskin), human (2: Fairie Blood), minotaur (1)

Mixed
Minotaur Fire Curse (almost only Tlan)
Sworn loyalty to liege

Disadvantages
+1 CP: Elitist, will not lead or hire Militia, Mercenaries, etc.
+1 CP: Bad reputation with locals (ie. killed someone or known bully)
+1 CP: Unstudious, automatic if Study is -1 or less
+1 CP: Slow Learner, automatic if Learn is -1 or less
+2 CP: Vice, figure out a vice to have such as addict, womanizer, slothful, drunkard, etc.
+X CP: Others, feel free to design other options and let me know
+X CP: Someone else has the character as a contact (obligation)
Outcast (not for huns)
Doomed (must suggest a fate) [huns]
+1 CP: No spells to start
+3 CP: No spells or magic skills to start
+5 CP: Agnostic (not advised in a fearful and magical world, must have strong character reason) No spells, magic skills, or religion ever

8. Contacts/Contactees/Oaths
[characters can start the game with oaths sworn or agreements/obligations made]
[Contacts are linked by GM within a couple days or linked to NPC/PC database]

Listings will have where the person spent their time as a page and squire, for knights.

9. Equipment/Status

Status	Normal	Noble or Hobgoblin
Low (-1)	Laced Leather	Lamellar
Normal (0)	Lamellar	Brigandine and War Pig
High (1)	Brigandine and War Pig	Laced Plate and War Pig
Superlative (2)	Laced Plate and War Pig	Magic Plate and War Pig

Equipment supplied to goblin clan characters. Humans are special, see GM or choose lower level of equipment as is status.

Other basic equipment is chosen by the player as desired.