Character Creation Guide

**Here in Fenar we use MYTH WEAVERS for character sheets. No exceptions!**

**Fenar lore!** When making a character you should come up with a good story and we are very flexible regarding character backstories. If your character is a guy named Bob and he is nothing more than a pile of game mechanics, you should probably start over. You must at minimum stick to the basic concepts of Golarion (Pathfinder's default campaign setting). IE, your background setting still follows the rules for Pathfinder's cosmology and magical physics. You may not make Luke Skywalker, the Jedi Knight who uses the force and has a lightsaber. However, you could make Leon Starstomper, the Magus with a flaming rapier! Note: Please try to be original, this was just an example of staying in the setting.

For major world-shaking events check our Events page!

### Third party Knowledge you need to be aware of

* Psionic
* Akashic
* Martial

### **Character Building Rules**

All characters are Gestalt. The Fenar Gestalt rules can be found here.

All characters have 25 point buy (Myth-weavers point buy calculator, use PF column). Your point buy may only have one ability score below 10. List your pre-racial point buy in the Player Name section on your sheet. This just makes it easier for GMs to figure out what you did with your point buy.

All characters use Slow XP Progression.

All characters gain maximum HP every level (A character with a d8 hit die and a +3 constitution modifier would have 22 HP at level 2).

You may play any races that are in the Core, Featured or Uncommon race sections. With that said please check out 1st party Changes and 3pp content, there are a host of racial classes, alternative rules for some races, and some completely Fenar originals! If you choose to use Racial classes, please note the following: racial character classes grant you starting attributes and racial features outside of their leveling blocks. If you choose more than one, you only gain the starting bonus attributes, traits and features from one of the racial classes, and you gain both of that racial class's positive and negative changes. You gain the Blooded trait for any race you do not choose for your primary race. You start as the size listed for the chosen creature. This option is only available to newly created characters and they are required to take both monster classes as their 1st-level gestalt combination. This first level combination may not be retrained out of or retrained into later, so be mindful of this as it will prevent characters from gaining capstones for most classes. If you so desire, you can have your character retain some vestiges of their previous race's appearance, such as a ghoul who used to be an elf for example. You gain the X-blooded trait (elf-blooded from the previous example or a Elf Rock Elemental/Succubus that chose the starting attributes for a Succubus would gain the Elf-Blooded and Rock Elemental-Blooded traits) for this race but otherwise gain no mechanical benefis (this is a bonus trait that does not count against your total allowed traits). You do not qualify for feats, classes, or other bonuses that require that race unless you gain it from other sources, such as class capstones, feats or spells.

All characters start with 3 traits (not counting the Extra Traits feat or similar).

You may take an extra starting bonus feat at level 1.

All characters start at level 3 with 3000 GP unless otherwise stated.

We use the Elephant in the Room Feat Tax Rules, as represented on that linked page (not the PDF). If you would gain a specific feat that is replaced by these Feat Tax rules, you gain a bonus feat instead.

All characters have a Background Occupation and Background Skills which are used to give your character more flavor and mechanical utility. You are not restricted to the exact title of the Occupation you choose - for example, the "Gladiator" occupation could be re flavored to be an ex-soldier. Basic information like that is easily changed, however when you write down such a thing on your character sheet, make sure to label it! [Background Occupation: Soldier (Gladiator)] would be a good way to label it in such a case). Background Occupations that would give you a specific feat instead give you a bonus feat that you can pick.

We use Downtime Rules which can be used to provide your character with something to do in their off-time! The rules for downtime activities are here.

If you have multiple characters, your characters cannot benefit from each other. Do not build characters with the intent to have them help or support your other characters (cohorts are obviously an exception to this rule). You are playing as part of a community, shop from other players before your character resorts to shopping from your other characters. If your character operates a shop or otherwise offers services for GP, your other characters will be expected to pay 80% of any items' or services' prices (this is the same price players usually charge each other).

You do not need to try and break the game and we highly urge you to not to. This is more RP than Combat, so I suggest you invest more in your skills. But with that said basic googling is a must and expected.

### **RP (roleplay) Points**

There are numerous ways to gain RP to purchase things in the RP Shop. The easiest ways are to RP in one of the many RP channels on the Discord, or to play in a session. Unlike other living worlds, it is impossible to purchase RP with real world currency.

### **Templates**

We do allow templates here in Fenar, they cost RP from the RP Shop. You may purchase a pre-existing Paizo or 3rd-Party template, or build a custom template tailored specifically to your character. The Fenar template rules can be found HERE.

### **Effective Character Level**

Your Effective Character Level (ECL) is the measure of your character's power level. Your character's ECL is their actual level plus the CR adjustment of any templates they have. Increasing your ECL does not grant you additional ability score increases or feats, as it is not an actual increase in your character's level.

### Drawbacks?

we do not use the major drawback or the paizo drawback systems