Phase 2 - Character Foundations

Goal: everything a player needs to build a character except their class: attributes, skills, background, lineage, and the sheet itself.

Milestone: needed in part for M2 (Alpha 1), fully for M3.

Skills and learnings

• Finalize the two core skills per attribute (Survival: Intelligence or Wisdom?) → Skills and Learnings
• Choose single-attribute or attribute-pair trained skills → Skills and Learnings
• Settle the knowledge list (Primal vs Nature/Occult, Underworld vs Underground) → Knowledge Learnings
• Fix class skill lists that use names not on the skill list (Knowledge: Arcana, Sleight of Hand, Stealth, Animal)
• Define proficiency levels (Proficient, Expert, Master?) and what each gives → General Feats
• Write skill points: how many, how they’re spent → Skills and Learnings
• Write a language list → Languages
• Decide on the new skills (Endurance, Ride, Engineering, Forgery), Perception/Deduction, and tool proficiencies → Skills and Learnings
• Decide on Stress, Skill Training and Class Points, or cut them → Skills and Learnings

Background and origin

• Give every background identity exact numbers (Scholar through Laborer are one-liners) → Background Identity
• Write the Bond / Ideal / Quirk / Flaw / Secret rules → Personality and Background
• Design the Session Zero minigame for shared bonds → Session Zero
• Write the per-tier “check in on your secret” procedure → Design Pillars
• Write Easy, Middle and Full creation modes → Character Creation Steps
• Decide on the Traveller-style creation option → Character Creation Steps
• Write the assessment test placeholder, or cut it

Lineages

• Finish the open sub-options: Greblkin (Boggin, 4th), Stoutfolk (Tundra), Sylvar (High, Eladrin), Human (4th feat), Taruk (Q’har, 4th)
• Settle the Therian shifting choice (in addition to or instead of the lineage ability) → Therian
• Give Khitin a speed and rewrite its legacy terms → Khitin
• Write the outlined lineages: Scion, Drakan, Pygmae, Goliath
• Pick which of the Lineage Ideas make the 1.0 list, and park the rest for an expansion
• Add flavor text (biology, society, culture) to every launch lineage → Lineages
• Balance pass: compare lineage power side by side

Character sheet

• Design the character sheet (the “[INSERT PICTURE OF CHARACTER SHEET]” placeholder)
• Make a form-fillable version for playtesters

Exit criteria

• A new player can make a character (minus class) from the wiki alone.
• At least five lineages are complete for Alpha 1: suggested Therian, Stoutfolk, Sylvar, Human, Taruk (the most complete today).