Flight from the Dark Character generation

Character generation is a mix of choosing from a list of skills and some random rolls to determine what makes up Silent Wolf.  The initial selection of skills makes it possible to really customize your character, looks like fun!

Selection of starting disciplines (you get to choose five):

• Camouflage enables a Kai Lord to blend in with his surroundings. He can hide undetected among trees and rocks and pass close to an enemy without being seen.
• Hunting ensures that a Kai Lord will never starve in the wild and to be able to move stealthily when stalking his prey.
• Sixth Sense may warn a Kai Lord of imminent danger and may also reveal the true purpose of a stranger or strange object.
• Tracking enables a Kai Lord to make the correct choice of a path in the wild, to discover the location of a person or object in a town or city and to read the secrets of footprints or tracks.
• Healing can be used to restore 1 ENDURANCE point to your total for every numbered section of the book you pass through in which you are not involved in combat.
• Weaponskill When you enter combat carrying a weapon you are skilled in, you add 2 points to your COMBAT SKILL.
• Mindshield  prevents you from losing any ENDURANCE points when subjected to mental attacks.
• Mindblast enables a Kai Lord to attack an enemy using the force of his mind and adds a two extra points to your COMBAT SKILL. Not all the creatures encountered will be harmed by Mindblast.
• Animal Kinship enables a Kai Lord to communicate with some animals and to be able to guess the intentions of others.

• Mind Over Matter enables a Kai Lord to move small objects with his powers of concentration.

My choices were:

1. Hunting: If you don't have meals to eat you lose 3 endurance and this allows you to sneak too.
2. Six Sense: Not dieing is important, and spider sense should help.
3. Healing: I want this project to last as many books as possible, this skill is a must!
4. Weapon Skill (Warhammer): Silent Wolf is a fighting monk, he would have some kind of weapon skill.
5. Mindblast: Cheap way to get a +2 advantage in combat over most foes.

Determined by random rolls:

1. Combat Ability (10+d10): 16
2. Endurance (20+d10): 25

Equipment by some random rolls:

1. An Axe
2. A Meal
3. Gold Crowns (d10): 3
4. A map of Sommerlund, pictured at the top of this entry
5. Another random weapon, this time a Mace
   
   
   I feel pretty happy with my selection of skills, all thing a trained monk would need to know to survive in the world. My random number generating did let me down a bit leaving me with average combat skill and endurance. I was quite disappointed in ending up skill with the Warhammer only to have an Axe as the default weapon and randomly rolling up a Mace, another weapon I am unskilled with, such is life.

   
   

   So with these selections made and random numbers generated Silent Wolf is ready to head out to gather some fire wood, surely nothing bad could possibly happen on a simple errand such as that.