Jamie is playing in a new Full Moon campaign, and she needs to create her
character. She spends some time thinking about a character concept. She wants to play
a character who has come to the moon to help people, someone whose past led her to
work toward a brighter future. She decides that her character will be a nun who has
opened a shelter in the community that provides relief to those down on their luck.
Sister Lois (as Jamie names her character) is good at reading people, a very
handy skill when dealing with addicts and criminals. Before she took her vows, Lois was
in the military. She has seen her share of violence as well as the kind of people that
profit from it. It made her sick and drove her off Earth. Still, she has kept her fighting
skills sharp, and she knows a bit of field medicine as well.
With this concept in mind, Jamie looks at the skill list. She knows her highest
skills will be Protocol and Fighting, and she wants a decent Medicine skill as well. She
decides to use the suggested array of skills. She puts her Great rating in Fighting, and
her two Good ratings in Protocol and Medicine.
For her two Fair ratings, Jamie takes Persuasion (for talking her clients through
their problems) and Athletics (as Lois keeps herself in good shape). Her three Average
skills go into Investigation (as she is just generally alert), as well as Mechanics and
Survival (left over from her military training). This leaves Lois with Mediocre ratings in
Infiltration, Scholarship, and Vehicles.
Thinking about it some more, Jamie decides to lower her Fighting to Good and
her Medicine to Fair. This gives her two skill points back to buy Specialties and Stunts.
She likes the idea of being able to size up groups as well as individuals, so Jamie buys
the Human Terrain stunt for her Protocol skill. She wants to hone Lois' combat skills,
making her more defensive, so she also buys the Ballistic Probabilities stunt for
Fighting. Finally, she buys a Fighting specialty in Rifles and a Protocol specialty in
Bullshit Detection, giving her an extra +1 with those skills when the specialties apply.
Jamie thinks about her Aspects for a while. She wants them to be evocative and
interesting, but not too complicated to explain. Her first aspect sums up her core
concept, World-Wise Nun. Another aspect speaks of her background in the military,
which she writes down as Hoorah! Sister Lois wants to help people, because she
believes Everyone Can Be Saved. Unfortunately, she still has a cynical streak,
because The World is Full of Assholes. Jamie decides to leave her final aspect
undefined until the other players have finished their characters. That way, she can forge
a connection to another character with a mechanical benefit.
Jamie finishes up by noting that the refresh rate is 5. She jots down any mundane equipment she thinks Sister Lois would have (a rifle, for instance), as well as
a brief description of the sister herself.
