Jarissa Progress Report


Reliability Number

1998 words
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Flight

380 words
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Always On

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Self-Link

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Electric Being

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New Character Concept

The character concept is the single most important component of character creation! Every other step must answer to this first one.

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CC from Templates

In WEG, a Template is a more-than-half-finished starting Character Sheet. A Player in a hurry to get playing can do themselves a great kindness by looking over a collection of premade Templates to see if one is nearly right.

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CC from Species

If premade Templates did not closely fit the concept, it is time to start with Species and allocate some Attribute Dice.

1019 words

How To Build A Prologue

A character's origin point may not appear directly in the main story, but it matters! It is shaped by the core concept; in turn it shapes the starting numbers on the Character Sheet.

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CC Baseline

You take your Species minimum, and you subtract it from your Starting Attribute Dice for that species, and then you spend the difference in making your Attributes better than the minimum.

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CC7D

All normal Skills start off defaulting at their related Attribute. You have seven dice to split up among the skills your character cared enough to really learn well.

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Shinies go vwooom vwoom

Every character needs a few tools: a datapad, a communicator, maybe a scanner or ranged weapon. Vehicles probably come with debts (whether financial or moral). Armor comes with complications. Droids? Droids come with *opinions*!

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Jarissa Progress so far

16764 words 167.64% completed!

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I taught myself to read at 4 years of age because I was impatient. I decided the available books were not the story I wanted to read, and wrote a story, at 5.
It was pretty awful.
I mean, I was five, that's not going to be a coherent plot anyhow! But still. It was awful. I was astounded to realize that good stories don't just burst off the page because I apply a crayon. I went back to reading for a while, but sometimes I was looking at what made one book a good read while another was merely a way to pass the time.
Here we are, twoscore and change years later, and I think I am starting to really grasp how a plot is different from a narrative which is not the same thing as a roughly chronological sequence of scenes?
Building worlds certainly makes for a better story!
 
My native language is American English, with several regional contributions as I moved around a lot in my early years. I can communicate tolerably well in a couple of other languages, if the other converser is patient and of good cheer. I'm familiar with several specialized vocabularies in the greater category "Nerd" and I know the responsibility for being understood is mine.
(I also sometimes have trouble understanding spoken words because I'm missing a bit of the hearing register in the middle. Maybe that's why I use the "Maximum Verbosity" setting in written communication! Sorry.)

Favorite Movies

  • The Princess Bride

Favorite Writers

  • Diane Duane
  • Robert B. Parker, especially in the 80s
  • for that matter, Rex Stout
  • Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Chris Dee
  • Seanan McGuire
  • C. B. Ash
  • Sir Terry Pratchett, especially the City Watch
  • Gallus Rostromegalus
  • Jennifer Rardin
  • Brian Daley
  • Spider Robinson
  • John M. "Mike" Ford

Latest Loved work

Summer Camp Prep '24 Homework

Stars

Tumble Mist

Ghost Blade

Alone Together

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