Character Creation
Step #1:
Character Concept
What's your name?
Choose a name at the beginning or end of the creation process. A recommended course is choosing your popular superhero, movie protagonist, or literary hero’s first name and an historical figure that you admire last name or vice versa. This becomes important ingredients when forming your bright shadow player character for the game.
What is your character concept?
Choose concepts, (i.e. mechanic, solar technician, damned lands protection escort, doctor, etc) as well as your inspiration.)
Character concepts not available: Criminal types — jailbird, Mafioso, drug dealer, pimp, carjacker, thug, thief, fence, skinhead,etc are not viable concepts in the future. Humanity has made a significant shift in its ethical dimensions. So, these types are no longer accessible. We still have crime, although not only in the 21st century and rehabilitation and restoration practices as well. However, a person who wants to be a criminal has disappeared via centuries of cultural evolution.
Drifter — bum, smuggler, prostitute, junkie, gambler, substance abuser these are also concepts which have no place in the new world of tomorrow.
Socialite — dilettante, playboy, sycophant, trophy wife, etc. These are class distinctions of a bygone age. Unconscious capitalism has pushed the world to disaster. In the future, conscious capitalism with time-banking practices has completely changed the economic dynamics of the planet. There, distinctions based on material class also have disappeared.
Sample Concepts
Entertainer — musician, film star, artist, web celebrity Intellectual — writer, student, scientist, philosopher, social critic Investigator — detective, city protector(cop),Elysian agent, private investigator, truth seeker (investigator of paranormal claims) Outsider — urban primitive, refugee from the damned lands The Work experts — secretary, facilitator, coach Professional — engineer, doctor, programmer, restoration and justice lawyer, Reporter — journalist, blogger, talk show host, media expert Scenester — clubgoer, hipster, Soldier — bodyguard,Elysian protection enforcer, \ Worker — electric transporter,vertical tower farmer, constructor
Step #2
What is your tribe? Choose your Tribe.
Special Note: Cyberions and Superions are the only tribe paths which can increase their attribute ratings above 5 to 10 (superhuman levels) but may incur flaws in the process. They do not follow the new Lifestyle (because they do not believe or put stock into an interior world) and so they have the tendency to not manipulate their difficulty like other tribes. (During character creation: their attributes and abilities can only be as high as 3 dots. And usually, their talents are the lowest ability because they do not use nor acknowledge them).
Mentor Tribes are massive cultural groups all over the world in various cities in the world. While each tribe has their own prejudices and ethos when different tribe members come together to form a house, they can defy their home tribes' biased tendencies. It is maybe true that Cyberions don’t like Lunarians, but that does not mean a Cyberion can’t marry a Lunarian in their own small neighborhood. Just know some tribe members who are conservative may criticize. But such critique is based on prejudice with cultural tribal consequences rather than speaking on illegality.
Step #3
What is your character Myers Briggs personality type.(https://www.16personalities.com/personality-types) and/or Ocean 5 Personality type. (https://www.verywellmind.com/the-big-five-personality-dimensions-2795422)
Step #4
What is your character’s interaction style (https://lindaberens.com/resources/methodology-articles/interaction-styles/)
Step#5
Select Attributes What is your character’s highest Attribute: Mental, Social, Physical? You have 6 dots to spend in that attribute.
What is your character’s second highest Attribute: Mental, Social, Physical? You have 4 dots to spend in that attribute. What is your character’s third highest Attribute: Mental, Social, Physical? You have 3 dots to spend in that attribute.
Step #6
Select Abilities What is your character’s highest ability between: Talents, Skills, Knowledges? You have 15 dots to spend in that attribute.
What is your character’s highest ability between: Talents, Skills, Knowledges? You have 10 dots to spend in that attribute.
What is your character’s highest ability between: Talents, Skills, Knowledges? You have 6 dots to spend in that attribute
Only One Ability is higher than 3 at this stage and maximum is 4
Talents are defined as the seven innate capacities of Logical-Mathematical Intelligence/Talent. … Linguistic Intelligence/Talent. Interpersonal Intelligence/Talent. Intrapersonal Intelligence/Talent. Musical Intelligence/Talent. Visual-Spatial Intelligence/Talent. Bodily-Kinaesthetic Intelligence/Talent. Naturalist Intelligence/Talent. What will be your restorative skill? (Choose one of the skills on your character sheet at 3 or 4):
Special note Selecting a Restorative Skill. Under Skills: Choose one skill which will be your restorative skill. In this selection you do not necessarily need to select from the skills on the sheet. You can, in this instance, research a wellness practice which your character engages. (examples #1) (examples #2)(examples #3)(examples#4)(other meditative practices)(moving meditation practices)(prostration practice)(Emotional Freedom Tapping Practice)<- some are applicable) or search the internet for one which you would like to use. It just needs to be a skill which engages the mind and/or the body.
Step #7 Strengths
Choose Your Strengths.(https://www.viacharacter.org/character-strengths) Choose five strengths and each strength automatically gets one point.(already listed) Additionally, you can spend three points and placed them among your strengths. No strength above 2 during character creation. Or take a quick strengths survey test (https://posproject.org/character-strength-surveys) (depending on your grade level)
Step #8:
Psychology/Background
Merits/Flaws Optional: Choose Merits. (max 7 points) Check the character sheet. The ST will help you transfer them into difficulty, lowering certain capacities for the character sheet.
Optional Choose Flaws (max 7 points) Check the character sheet for selection. The ST will help you transfer them into difficulty raising for certain capacities on the character sheet.
Special Note: Flaws will be applied to increasing difficulty rolls on your character sheet. Be careful with your flaw choices. It provides a wonderful way to create a trajectory for your character. However, if your flaws interrupt roleplay too much, we may need to modify your character.
Background
What is your Backgrounds (5 points) (Go to character sheet)
Backgrounds 1 Point Per Dot Choose Contacts — The information sources the character possesses.
Write who these contacts are
Fame — How well-known the character is among Elysians
Mentor — A personal guide towards higher development.
Resources — starting accumulated time credits Status —among the Elysian
Tribal Influence — Influence in this world occurs through what we call tribe space and it is a kind of influence which is without authority. You can use your influence to get work gone only for personal and group cultivation. (To learn about Tribe space, review the four space blog)(https://blog.holacracy.org/the-organization-is-not-the-tribe-244d6dedc5f2)
Character Concept
What's your name?
Choose a name at the beginning or end of the creation process. A recommended course is choosing your popular superhero, movie protagonist, or literary hero’s first name and an historical figure that you admire last name or vice versa. This becomes important ingredients when forming your bright shadow player character for the game.
What is your character concept?
Choose concepts, (i.e. mechanic, solar technician, damned lands protection escort, doctor, etc) as well as your inspiration.)
Character concepts not available: Criminal types — jailbird, Mafioso, drug dealer, pimp, carjacker, thug, thief, fence, skinhead,etc are not viable concepts in the future. Humanity has made a significant shift in its ethical dimensions. So, these types are no longer accessible. We still have crime, although not only in the 21st century and rehabilitation and restoration practices as well. However, a person who wants to be a criminal has disappeared via centuries of cultural evolution.
Drifter — bum, smuggler, prostitute, junkie, gambler, substance abuser these are also concepts which have no place in the new world of tomorrow.
Socialite — dilettante, playboy, sycophant, trophy wife, etc. These are class distinctions of a bygone age. Unconscious capitalism has pushed the world to disaster. In the future, conscious capitalism with time-banking practices has completely changed the economic dynamics of the planet. There, distinctions based on material class also have disappeared.
Sample Concepts
Entertainer — musician, film star, artist, web celebrity Intellectual — writer, student, scientist, philosopher, social critic Investigator — detective, city protector(cop),Elysian agent, private investigator, truth seeker (investigator of paranormal claims) Outsider — urban primitive, refugee from the damned lands The Work experts — secretary, facilitator, coach Professional — engineer, doctor, programmer, restoration and justice lawyer, Reporter — journalist, blogger, talk show host, media expert Scenester — clubgoer, hipster, Soldier — bodyguard,Elysian protection enforcer, \ Worker — electric transporter,vertical tower farmer, constructor
Step #2
What is your tribe? Choose your Tribe.
Special Note: Cyberions and Superions are the only tribe paths which can increase their attribute ratings above 5 to 10 (superhuman levels) but may incur flaws in the process. They do not follow the new Lifestyle (because they do not believe or put stock into an interior world) and so they have the tendency to not manipulate their difficulty like other tribes. (During character creation: their attributes and abilities can only be as high as 3 dots. And usually, their talents are the lowest ability because they do not use nor acknowledge them).
Mentor Tribes are massive cultural groups all over the world in various cities in the world. While each tribe has their own prejudices and ethos when different tribe members come together to form a house, they can defy their home tribes' biased tendencies. It is maybe true that Cyberions don’t like Lunarians, but that does not mean a Cyberion can’t marry a Lunarian in their own small neighborhood. Just know some tribe members who are conservative may criticize. But such critique is based on prejudice with cultural tribal consequences rather than speaking on illegality.
Step #3
What is your character Myers Briggs personality type.(https://www.16personalities.com/personality-types) and/or Ocean 5 Personality type. (https://www.verywellmind.com/the-big-five-personality-dimensions-2795422)
Step #4
What is your character’s interaction style (https://lindaberens.com/resources/methodology-articles/interaction-styles/)
Step#5
Select Attributes What is your character’s highest Attribute: Mental, Social, Physical? You have 6 dots to spend in that attribute.
What is your character’s second highest Attribute: Mental, Social, Physical? You have 4 dots to spend in that attribute. What is your character’s third highest Attribute: Mental, Social, Physical? You have 3 dots to spend in that attribute.
Step #6
Select Abilities What is your character’s highest ability between: Talents, Skills, Knowledges? You have 15 dots to spend in that attribute.
What is your character’s highest ability between: Talents, Skills, Knowledges? You have 10 dots to spend in that attribute.
What is your character’s highest ability between: Talents, Skills, Knowledges? You have 6 dots to spend in that attribute
Only One Ability is higher than 3 at this stage and maximum is 4
Talents are defined as the seven innate capacities of Logical-Mathematical Intelligence/Talent. … Linguistic Intelligence/Talent. Interpersonal Intelligence/Talent. Intrapersonal Intelligence/Talent. Musical Intelligence/Talent. Visual-Spatial Intelligence/Talent. Bodily-Kinaesthetic Intelligence/Talent. Naturalist Intelligence/Talent. What will be your restorative skill? (Choose one of the skills on your character sheet at 3 or 4):
Special note Selecting a Restorative Skill. Under Skills: Choose one skill which will be your restorative skill. In this selection you do not necessarily need to select from the skills on the sheet. You can, in this instance, research a wellness practice which your character engages. (examples #1) (examples #2)(examples #3)(examples#4)(other meditative practices)(moving meditation practices)(prostration practice)(Emotional Freedom Tapping Practice)<- some are applicable) or search the internet for one which you would like to use. It just needs to be a skill which engages the mind and/or the body.
Step #7 Strengths
Choose Your Strengths.(https://www.viacharacter.org/character-strengths) Choose five strengths and each strength automatically gets one point.(already listed) Additionally, you can spend three points and placed them among your strengths. No strength above 2 during character creation. Or take a quick strengths survey test (https://posproject.org/character-strength-surveys) (depending on your grade level)
Step #8:
Psychology/Background
Merits/Flaws Optional: Choose Merits. (max 7 points) Check the character sheet. The ST will help you transfer them into difficulty, lowering certain capacities for the character sheet.
Optional Choose Flaws (max 7 points) Check the character sheet for selection. The ST will help you transfer them into difficulty raising for certain capacities on the character sheet.
Special Note: Flaws will be applied to increasing difficulty rolls on your character sheet. Be careful with your flaw choices. It provides a wonderful way to create a trajectory for your character. However, if your flaws interrupt roleplay too much, we may need to modify your character.
Background
What is your Backgrounds (5 points) (Go to character sheet)
Backgrounds 1 Point Per Dot Choose Contacts — The information sources the character possesses.
Write who these contacts are
Fame — How well-known the character is among Elysians
Mentor — A personal guide towards higher development.
Resources — starting accumulated time credits Status —among the Elysian
Tribal Influence — Influence in this world occurs through what we call tribe space and it is a kind of influence which is without authority. You can use your influence to get work gone only for personal and group cultivation. (To learn about Tribe space, review the four space blog)(https://blog.holacracy.org/the-organization-is-not-the-tribe-244d6dedc5f2)
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