Character Creation Guide

Welcome to Sojourner: Into the stars! To get started in taking part in a roleplay you'll need a character first! Unlike normal conventions for characters, such as docs and posts on the discord itself, we keep profiles on the wiki for quick and easy access to numerous characters. For many, this is a first time thing, so there's going to be confusion on how it works. That's what this guide is here for! This is a simple, step by step guide on how to get the template, make a new page, and fill out the form though both computer and mobile methods (with pictures!). This will hopefully help out those who are in need of help with getting started. If you have any remaining questions, please ping @Character Help in the discord with any questions this guide does not answer.

## Computer Method

### Step 1: Pick up the template from the Character Template Page

Starting off in the discord, head down to **Guides** and check **#start-here** to access the game mechanics quick-page. This page is where you can get answers to most of the mechanical questions you may have about Sojourner. The **Character Template** is the second one down from the very top of the page.

### **Step 2, Copy the Template**

Once the page is open with the template, you'll want to click on the green **Edit** button **to the right of the page title**. Once you're in the edit mode, just copy the template to clipboard. For the template to work properly, copy the code in **Source Editor** mode, not **Visual Editor** mode. You can copy the template in Visual Editing and that has worked, but it's best to copy the source code format. Once the template is copied, click cancel**,** that way the template is left for the next user to pick up.

### **Step 3, Create a new page and paste the template**

Next, you'll need to create and name the page for your character profile. At the top of the page, there'll be a green button that says **Add**, once you click on that, you'll be asked to name the page. For clarity's sake, you can put your characters name as the page name. Put in the name and then click **next**. Afterward you should be sent your characters page. Click on edit and paste the template you saved to clipboard. For good measure, click save to make sure it shows everything properly. If you're missing anything, head back to the template and grab anything that's missing. Then, move on to the next step.

### **Step 4, Fill out the profile**

This one is self-explanatory. Just fill in the designated tables with information about your character. ***Important to note:*** ***If the text in the editor shows up in coding format, IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to switch the editor mode from SOURCE EDITING TO VISUAL EDITING, that way it makes the filling out part MUCH EASIER.*** To start off, it's best to ignore the sections for: **Armor, Weapons, and Gadgets**, in the beginning and come back to them once your character stats are finished. For help with stats and determining your health, stamina and carry weight please look at the Skills and Stats Guide for a more in depth explanation for how they're handled. (For an idea of how a character page can look, you can look at the profiles located in the Character Category[1])

* When dealing stat points in **Attributes**, you have 16 points total to deal as you wish. **Each attribute starts with a base of 1**. So for example; if a person wants to add +3 points to vitality, they would instead write down +4. If you end up with 20 points total and subtract 4, then you know you've used all your points for Attributes
* For all other skills you have a positive number of 30 points and a negative number of 30 points to deal among the skills. **Skills do not start as a base of one,** so you would put in the number you want for the skill. When dealing points, remember that you can have a max of +15 for positive points in a skill and a max of -5 for negative points in a skill for a new character.
	+ For help with determining what your character is good at, here's an example of how a character with points in medical would be viewed (Thanks Adam):
		- +0 is the average human
		- +5 is an EMT/Nurse
		- +10 is a doctor of something
		- +15 is a specialized surgeon
* There are 3 different Character Personalities to chose from (Given by Lex):
	+ Personality type A has advantage against intimidation but disadvantage on charm. These are typically leaders, soldiers, warriors, mercenaries and similar professions. Most commonly they are also males though this is not always the case. Individuals with this personality type tend to be boastful, outgoing, overconfident and tend to have an incredibly high opinion of themselves.
	+ Personality type B has advantage against deception but disadvantage against reasoning. Most commonly these are scientists, doctors, lawyers and other professions. This is the most balanced personality type between the genders when regarding humanity. Persons with this personality type are typically focused on themselves as individuals, withdrawn from society, speak in moderation and only when necessary as well as lack a sense of care about self esteem and things they deem trivial.
	+ Personality type O has advantage against charm but disadvantage against intimidation. These individuals are typically seen in subordinate positions to those around them though they don't tend to gravitate to any particular style of profession. These individuals are generally female if human as they tend to be naturally more submissive. Individuals with this personality type are often shy, withdrawn, suffer from low self esteem, quiet and hard to charm into doing someone else's bidding.
* When designing a character of a particular (available) race, be sure to check the bio of said race to look for any bonuses to particular stats or skills!

### **Step 5, Submit for looking over**

Almost done! Just copy the url link for your character profile and paste it in **#character-submission** listed under **Submissions**. It'll be looked over by the higher ups and if there's anything that needs fixing, they'll let you know. Otherwise, you''ll get the sign of approval and you can start taking part in Sojourner!

## Mobile Method

(This part of the guide was written by Honbun who does not use the FANDOM app. Any differences between the app and the browser version are unknown) Mobile is not that much different from the computer method. As most of the difficultly comes from creating a new page. FANDOM does not let you create pages in the mobile version. The only steps that are noticeably different are step 2 and step 3, so we'll cover those here.

### **Step 2 for mobile, copying the template**

On mobile, just under the title of the page, is a button labeled **Edit Page**. Clicking on this will allow you to copy all sections of the template. Clicking on the small pencil will only allow you to copy a small section of the template, which, in total, is very time consuming and confusing. When copying the template, make sure you have everything from **general** to the **description** at the end highlighted.

### **Step 3 for mobile, creating a new page and pasting the template**

As stated earlier, FANDOM does not allow users to create a page in mobile format. There are 2 ways to go about this:

1. **Ask someone from Character Help to make the character page for you in the Discord:** Ping @Character help in the discord and ask for them to make you a page if you're going by mobile. Give them the name of your character and they'll create the page and link you the url, so all you have to do is finish the rest yourself.
2. **Switch to the full site:** At the very bottom of the page, FANDOM allows you to view the website as how it looks in desktop format. From here the steps are followed just the same as how you would by the computer method.

When filling out the template, just like with desktop version, it is recommended to switch from **Source Editing** to **Visual editing** if starting in source mode. At the top of the browser beside the name of the page, there will be a small pencil. Tapping on that will allow you to switch between the two modes.