Character Creation

I'm going to totally support Psybermagi's idea, in that if you want, you could choose to not spend some of your points now (please keep track of them in your notes), so that you could spend them better later. We haven't planned so far ahead yet for XP, but it is certain my story arc will be in four seasons, so four instances where I will award XP. In addition, I will give everyone a little bit for completing session 0 to signal that we've gotten a grasp of our PCs.

Don't forget I'm still okay with some unassigned points, to be gradually assigned in the course of session zero ie pre-Awakening / post Awakening.

Play what appeals to you best PhoenixScientist! I'm not too concerned about 'party balance', as this is totally not a dungeoncrawl. Where possible, there will be multiple ways to resolve a situation, so if you want to talk / sneak / bash your way through, those options should typically be available. If everyone's the scholarly type, then hey, maybe everything's just one exam after another! :P And on the flip side, if by sheer coincidence two PCs have roughly the same point builds in certain areas, maybe that'll come into play too because perhaps the challenge needs two successful rolls from two different characters.

I've been enjoying carefully reading all the features, abilities, backgrounds you've chosen, (took me some days!) as I intend that most if not all of them will come into play, so all the more reason you should craft exactly what you want. Eg, somebody was talking about skateboarding *GM makes notes

Nothing to see here, just some flavour rolls :D

Especially even before the game starts!

As more and more of the features of your school life unfold, you can begin to flesh out the concrete details of various things in your character sheet, such as:

- Allies can come from your club mates or teammates, or classmates who have your back. Contacts can be people affliated to the school. Retainers are juniors who listen to you.
- Status and Influence can be determined in relation to your peers, or at higher rank, even your teachers.
- Mentor can be a teacher, or one of the adult staff in the school. Spirit Mentor can be someone related to the school as well.
- When we explore locations, Sanctum can be one of the places in campus, so can Chantry. There's also at least one Node as well. Library, conveniently, can easily be literal.

Thanks for that, it's a big cast of NPCs, potentially overwhelming. I will continue to update the list of characters in the Worldbuilding thread and delete older versions.

And yes, I did describe Emily Walsh, freshman, as entering the multi-purpose hall, AND also the gym.