Character Background Generator - Revision history

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Institution Subtable

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Bennettj: /* Cultural Backgrounds */

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Tao alexis: /* Progenitors */

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Progenitors

Tao alexis: /* Personal History */

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Tao alexis: /* Predispositions & Shortcomings */

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Predispositions & Shortcomings

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Predispositions & Shortcomings

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Predispositions & Shortcomings

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 * '''[[Baggage Camp|Baggage camp]]''': the character spent their childhood following military camps through campaigns, helping to cook, launder clothes, make liquor, nurse soldiers, carry baggage and otherwise act as a servant to soldiers.  Like as not, he or she began their training as a fighter while still on the move, as taught by the soldiers present, not actually being sent to a proper school to gain traditional fighting skills until the age of 13.
-* '''Bard's college''': these are dramatic places of learning, often no more than a single sprawling structure, where the character was able to watch and listen to bards discuss and perform their arts.  Much of the character's youth would have involved servant and cleaning duties, though as a bard they would have learned to [[Read & Write (sage ability)|read & write]] at an age of six or seven — as all bards have this ability.  Practical, serious training would have started at the age of 10.
+* '''[[Bardic College|Bard's college]]''': these are dramatic places of learning, often no more than a single sprawling structure, where the character was able to watch and listen to bards discuss and perform their arts.  Much of the character's youth would have involved servant and cleaning duties, though as a bard they would have learned to [[Read & Write (sage ability)|read & write]] at an age of six or seven — as all bards have this ability.  Practical, serious training would have started at the age of 10.
 * '''Barracks''': these are long buildings used to house soldiers and labourers.  Characters would have spent much time cleaning weapons, sharpening them, sewing arming gowns and flags, cleaning and attending livestock or acting as servants to the soldiers.  Practical training for fighters and paladins would have started and been completed in rooms attached to the main barracks; assassins from a barracks have started this training until their mid-teens, before abandoning the traditional path to gain knowledge from tutors and masters in less savoury activities.

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 | style="text-align: center"|druid || manor farm
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-| style="text-align: center"|fighter || baggage train (1), barracks (2-13),<br>manor farm (14-16), shipboard (17-20)
+| style="text-align: center"|fighter || baggage camp (1), barracks (2-13),<br>manor farm (14-16), shipboard (17-20)
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 | style="text-align: center"|illusionist || guildhouse (1-9), library (10-20)
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 Applicable discriptions for the different institutions are below.  Remember that although a character may have spent time aboard ship or in a varying type of guild, this doesn't necessarily mean they learned how to swim or create an article of some sort; to learn precisely what sort of secondary knowledge the character accumulated in their youth, see [[Character Background Generator#Progenitors|Progenitors]].
-* '''Baggage camp''': the character spent their childhood following military camps through campaigns, helping to cook, launder clothes, make liquor, nurse soldiers, carry baggage and otherwise act as a servant to soldiers.  Like as not, he or she began their training as a fighter while still on the move, as taught by the soldiers present, not actually being sent to a proper school to gain traditional fighting skills until the age of 13.
+* '''[[Baggage Camp|Baggage camp]]''': the character spent their childhood following military camps through campaigns, helping to cook, launder clothes, make liquor, nurse soldiers, carry baggage and otherwise act as a servant to soldiers.  Like as not, he or she began their training as a fighter while still on the move, as taught by the soldiers present, not actually being sent to a proper school to gain traditional fighting skills until the age of 13.
 * '''Bard's college''': these are dramatic places of learning, often no more than a single sprawling structure, where the character was able to watch and listen to bards discuss and perform their arts.  Much of the character's youth would have involved servant and cleaning duties, though as a bard they would have learned to [[Read & Write (sage ability)|read & write]] at an age of six or seven — as all bards have this ability.  Practical, serious training would have started at the age of 10.

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 * '''Monastery''': the culture here is not so different from that of a manor, with opportunities to learn about farming, animals and the making of various foodstuffs ... but the religious expectation encouraged the character to become a cleric or a monk — remaining to complete their training in the same institution they attended as young children.  Paladins growing up in a monastery remain affected by what they saw and the rituals they took part in, but by the age of 10 or 11 they head out, with a stipend, to get formal training in fighting.
-* '''Performing troupe''': a fun and exciting life for a young future bard, full of helping to move and walk long distances beside wagons on their way to the next town ... but also opportunities to act on stage, walk through strange places shouting out the arrival of the troupe to outsiders, handling money and watching the players and performers hone their craft.  Many heartbreaking moments also, as a performer in a troupe can lose heart.  Such bards use what skills they can find in these places to audition their way into a college or guild to receive their formal training.
+* '''Performing troupe''': a fun and exciting life for a young future bard, full of helping to move and walk long distances beside wagons on their way to the next town ... but also opportunities to act on stage, walk through strange places shouting out the arrival of the troupe to outsiders, handling money and watching the players and performers hone their craft.  Many heartbreaking moments also, as a performer in a troupe can lose heart.  Such bards use what skills they can find in these places to [[Audition (sage ability)|audition]] their way into a college or guild to receive their formal training.
 * '''Shipboard''': life aboard ship includes many dangerous, unique ideas for the character to discover as a child, but it's hard, repetitive work also.  Decks must be scrubbed white, while learning to walk out on a mast or spar in a storm is also part of the character's education.  More than one lost friend, fellow child or adult alike, is remembered though they are long gone.  Shipboard also allows for long periods ashore, where a fellow seaman may take time to teach an assassin, fighter, ranger or thief a wide variety of secondary abilities.  Formal training is usually made possible by a long voyage at sea, where years of income are accumulated and paid out in a single day.  +1-4 pts. [[Sailing (sage ability)|sailing]] knowledge.

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 '''Scandinavian''' are peoples dwelling in Denmark and various lands north of the Baltic and North Seas, including Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Norway.  '''Slavic''' takes in many peoples dwelling in Eastern Europe and Russia.  '''Southeast Asia''' embraces the East Indies and the Philippines and the mainland peninsula south of China and east of Assam.
-'''Sub-Saharan''' African includes regions south of the Sahara Desert – Gambia, Ghana and Sudan, consisting of savanna and jungle reaching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Nile.  '''Turkic''' accounts for a wide range of cultures who came from Ural-Altaic origins, whose tribes migrated from the steppes of high-central Asia and into Anatolia and parts of the Middle East.  '''Western European''' includes tribes from Britain and France, the genetics of which were influenced by tribes like the Franks, Saxons, Danes, Vandals and Visigoths.
+'''Sub-Saharan''' African includes regions south of the Sahara Desert – Gambia, Ghana and Sudan, consisting of savanna and jungle reaching from the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to the Nile.  '''Turkic''' accounts for a wide range of cultures who came from Ural-Altaic origins, whose tribes migrated from the steppes of high-central Asia and into Anatolia and parts of the Middle East.  '''Western European''' includes tribes from Britain and France, the genetics of which were influenced by tribes like the Franks, Saxons, Danes, Vandals and Visigoths.
 Parts of the world that have experienced invasions and occupations by foreign groups, such as Europe and the Middle East, tend to have greater variation in their genetic make-up ... while other parts, like Polynesia and East Asia, have remained distinctly homogenous in appearance.  This accounts for the multiplicity of results among some humans as opposed to others.

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 * '''Church/Temple''': being taken in and given a place to sleep as an act of charity, the character would have spent their childhood cleaning the pews, carrying hymnals and other books, gardening, tending to animals kept to help support the clergy and carrying candles, flags and podiums during festivals.  After the character is given a place during services and shows his or her piety, the decision is made to send the character to a formal seminary on a stipend.
-* '''Guildhouse''': represents different possible organisations for different classes, but in all cases the characters would spend time acting as servants and participating in the backbreaking work of feeding and housing a large number of workers.  This means much laundering, kitchen duties and carrying much wood and water.  Bards are familiar with guilds related to ceramic, tailoring, woodworking guilds and other artisan examples.  Illusionists spend their time in bookbinding, print houses, scribners and university-supportive guilds.  In addition to these for the illusionist, a mage can include guilds dedicated towards [[Alchemy (sage study)|alchemy]], medicine and other sciences.  The guild for a thief is assuredly a thief's guild.  Each of these guilds would be responsible, through collections and donations, for the character receiving a formal education in their class.
+* '''Guildhouse''': represents different possible organisations for different classes, but in all cases the characters would spend time acting as servants and participating in the backbreaking work of feeding and housing a large number of workers.  This means much laundering, kitchen duties and carrying much wood and water.  Bards are familiar with guilds related to ceramic, tailoring, woodworking guilds and other [[Artisan (profession)|artisan]] examples.  Illusionists spend their time in bookbinding, print houses, scribners and university-supportive guilds.  In addition to these for the illusionist, a mage can include guilds dedicated towards [[Alchemy (sage study)|alchemy]], medicine and other sciences.  The guild for a thief is assuredly a thief's guild.  Each of these guilds would be responsible, through collections and donations, for the character receiving a formal education in their class.
 * '''Library''': the duties for children in these places are primarily cleaning, collecting and copying.  As illusionist and mages, they would have learned to read & write at the age of 8 to 9, when they were old enough to be trusted to spend endless hours writing copies as a scholar droned on and on.  Characters of this type would also have some experience with many possible educations; as "farmers" or "explorers," they may never have stood in a field or been aboard a ship.  Formal education begins when the character is paid for their ability to write, a task they perform all through their training.

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	Every levelled character is entitled to one [[Progenitor]], the individual responsible for raising them from a child and enabling their training as a character class.		Every levelled character is entitled to one [[Progenitor]], the individual responsible for raising them from a child and enabling their training as a character class.

		+	== Ability Stat Background Links ==
	[[Character's Personal History]]		[[Character's Personal History]]

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	Once again, the player creates an '''adjusted wisdom number''' by rolling a d20 and adding the character's wisdom. This number is then applied to the '''Predisposition table'''. Further notes on the table are as follows:		Once again, the player creates an '''adjusted wisdom number''' by rolling a d20 and adding the character's wisdom. This number is then applied to the '''Predisposition table'''. Further notes on the table are as follows:

−	* '''Superstition''' (result 4): characters are immediately made uncomfortable (wisdom check to overcome) by strange noises, old stories, curses, graveyards, ruins and masks; in play, the character is easily shaken (losing initiative or coming last in the party's movement order) in situations where the minus 6-8 (d3-5) even might be applied to a coming saving throw.	+	* '''Superstition''' (result 4): characters are immediately made uncomfortable (wisdom check to overcome) by strange noises, old stories, curses, graveyards, ruins and masks; in play, the character is easily shaken (losing initiative or coming last in the party's movement order) in situations where the minus 6-8 (d3-5) even might be applied to a coming saving throw. An additional bonus of +2 can be obtained against fear and mind control spells if the character obtains a legitimately magical luck stone or talisman against evil.

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	Once again, the player creates an '''adjusted wisdom number''' by rolling a d20 and adding the character's wisdom. This number is then applied to the '''Predisposition table'''. Further notes on the table are as follows:		Once again, the player creates an '''adjusted wisdom number''' by rolling a d20 and adding the character's wisdom. This number is then applied to the '''Predisposition table'''. Further notes on the table are as follows:

−	* '''Superstition''' (result 4):	+	* '''Superstition''' (result 4): characters are immediately made uncomfortable (wisdom check to overcome) by strange noises, old stories, curses, graveyards, ruins and masks; in play, the character is easily shaken (losing initiative or coming last in the party's movement order) in situations where the minus 6-8 (d3-5) even might be applied to a coming saving throw.

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	Once again, the player creates an '''adjusted wisdom number''' by rolling a d20 and adding the character's wisdom. This number is then applied to the '''Predisposition table'''. Further notes on the table are as follows:		Once again, the player creates an '''adjusted wisdom number''' by rolling a d20 and adding the character's wisdom. This number is then applied to the '''Predisposition table'''. Further notes on the table are as follows:
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		+	* '''Superstition''' (result 4):