Character Creation Rules
Step 1: Choose a character concept.
Step 2: Prioritize your attributes.
Step 3: Prioritize your science types.
Step 4: Prioritize your power sources.
Step 5: Prioritize your source defenses.
Step 6: Prioritize your inner strength types.
Step 7: Choose your sciences.
Step 8: Choose your disciplines.
Step 9: Fill in additional information.


Step 1:Choose a character concept.
Decide what type of character you would like to play.

Example: Bill decides that his character will be a medic. After printing out a character sheet, he writes “Medic” next to “Character Concept.”


Step 2: Prioritize your attributes.
Your character will have the following attributes.
Mental: Intellect - Math, analysis, knowledge, and other intellectual abilities.
Mental: Social - Persuasion, sensing when someone is lying, and other dealings with other people.
Physical: Mobility - Quickness, agility, and general getting around.
Physical: Power - Physical might and strength.
Decide which one of the four will be your highest (primary) priority, your second-highest (secondary) priority, your third-highest (tertiary) priority, and your lowest (lowest) priority.
Example: Bill feels that the two main traits of his medic character will be a soothing personality, and an impressive I.Q. He chooses Mental: Social as his primary attribute, and Mental: Intellect as his secondary attribute. He decides that his medic should be able to reach injured comrades quickly, so he chooses Physical: Mobility as his tertiary attribute. This leaves Physical: Power as his lowest attribute.


Step 3: Prioritize your science types.
Psi morphs can use the following four types of powers (known in this game as sciences.)
Attack - Sciences used to deal damage to a foe.
Environmental - Sciences which change the psi morph's surroundings in some way.
Hindrance - Sciences designed to disrupt a foe's plans.
Support - Sciences which provide aid to a psi morph and his/her allies.
Decide which one of the four will be your primary priority, your secondary priority, your tertiary priority, and your lowest priority.

Example:Bill immediately decides that his medic's primary science type will be Support, since this will let him heal and aid his patients. He decides to make Environment his secondary science type, since it will let him create a safer environment for his patients. He chooses Hindrance as his tertiary science type, since it will help him interfere with attempts to harm his patients. That leaves Attack as his lowest science type.


Step 4: Prioritize your power sources.
Psi Morphs can use sciences based on the following four power sources.
Psi Atom - Powers which manipulate atoms. Psi Atom sciences tend to be usable the most times per day.
Psi Cell - Powers which manipulate living cells. Psi Cell sciences tend to be the most versatile.
Psi Energy - Powers which manipulate energy. Psi Energy sciences tend to have the most raw power.
Spec Ops - Using a combination of powers and skills to achieve ordinary results in an extraordinary way. Spec Ops is the power souce with the most quick sciences.
Decide which one of the four will be your primary priority, your secondary priority, your tertiary priority, and your lowest priority.

Example: Going for quality over quantity, Bill chooses Psi Energy as his primary power source. He wants to be able to cure many different ailments, so he chooses Psi Cell as his secondary power source. He decides that Spec Ops would be a good tertiary power source, which leaves Psi Atom as his lowest power source.


Step 5: Prioritize your source defenses.
Choose which of the four power sources you will be best at defending against (your primary source defense,) the one you will be second-best at defending against (your secondary source defense,) the one you will be third-best at defending against (your tertiary source defense,) and the one you will be worst at defending against (your lowest defense.)

Example: Bill chooses Spec Ops as his character's primary source defense. He decides on Psi Energy as his secondary source defense, Psi Atom as his tertiary source defense, and Psi Cell as his lowest source defense.


Step 6: Prioritize your inner strength types.
There are four types of inner strength: determination, willpower, survival, and persistence. Choose which one will be your primary inner strength type, which one will be your secondary inner strength type, which one will be your tertiary inner strength type, and which one will be your lowest inner strength type.

Example: Bill sees his character as being hard set on saving others, and even being willing to sacrifice his own life to save the life of a friend. So, he chooses willpower as his character's primary inner strength type, determination as his character's secondary inner strength type, persistence as his character's tertiary inner strength type, and survival as his character's lowest inner strength type.


Step 7: Choose your sciences.
All characters get the 8 standard sciences. You also begin the game with 10 other sciences of your choice.

Example: Bill decides that his character's sciences will be Regeneration I, Healing Surge I, Preemptive Regeneration I, Energy Blast I, Cell Restoration I, Cell Transfer I, Empathy, Inspire Survival, Noble Sacrifice, and Healing Turret. Some of these sciences will be nearly impossible to use until he gains some levels of experience. Bill is thinking ahead.

Reminder: All characters get the 8 standard sciences at no cost. Bill’s character has all 8 of these sciences in addition to the 10 named above.

Step 8: Choose your disciplines.
Choose 5 disciplines.

Example: Bill decides that his medic character’s 5 disciplines will be Specialization (Healing), Effective Supporter, Underwater Operation (Extended Breath Holding), Deep Willpower, and Reserve Body: Animal (Otter.) He chooses the animal reserve body mainly for fun. Bill knows that when playing an RPG, not every decision should be based on trying to win. Storytelling and simply having fun are just as important in an RPG.


Step 9: Fill in additional information.
Your character will begin with 20 hp, plus any bonuses provided by disciplines. You begin with 4 inner strength points (ISPs) of your primary type, 3 of your secondary type, 2 of your tertiary type, and 1 of your lowest type.

Fill in your character’s real name, code name, personality, age, gender, height, weight, and species. It is highly recommended that you also write a backstory for your character.

Example: Bill fills in the following information for his character.
Real Name: Michael Stockton
Code Name: Gentlepaw
Character Concept: Medic
Personality: Kind-hearted and caring
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 180 pounds
Species: Otter

He writes the following backstory for Gentlepaw in the Other Information section of the character sheet.

Michael and his younger brother, Luke had always been very close friends. The two of them dreamed of becoming doctors, and working together to save lives. Throughout their childhood, they shared this dream while having all kinds of fun together. Everything changed when it was discovered that Michael had two of the rare, recessive gene which made it possible to survive the transformation into a psi morph, and Luke did not. Now, Luke is very jealous. It has created a great rift between them which Michael longs to overcome so that they can be best friends again. In the meantime, Michael maintains a caring, kind-hearted personality while aiding his fellow psi morphs as a medic known as Gentlepaw.

Gentlepaw's weapon is a techpaw which fires a blast of electricity. The techpaw can also be used as a defibrillator in an emergency, and various other tools needed by a medic can also be stored inside it. Many of the tools shrink as they enter the techpaw, and grow back to normal as they exit.


Bill now has a complete character sheet for Gentlepaw.

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