When creating a character, it's essential to consider their backstory, background, and ambitions. These elements can help shape your character's personality and goals. Think about your character's past experiences, where they come from, and what motivates them.

Consider what you want your character to be able to do. Instead of focusing on specific classes or game mechanics, think about their role or profession in the world. For example, you might want your character to be a traveling cook, an aspiring blacksmith, a skilled archer, or a talented musician.

Also, think about your character's appearance, including their race, age, physique, and other physical attributes. This helps you visualize your character and understand how they fit into the game world. Remember that a character's appearance doesn't dictate their abilities (e.g., racial traits).

By considering these aspects, you can create a well-rounded and engaging character for your role-playing adventures.

Your character's abilities in the game are largely determined by their Skill Sets. Each Skill Set provides a range of effects. For example, the sharpshooter skill set enhances your proficiency as an archer, while Alchemy enables you to craft useful potions for in and out of combat support. Other skill sets like Pacts and Arcanism grant you the power to cast spells and use magical abilities.

At 1st level, you choose and learn your first Skill Set, gaining its rank 1 benefits. As you progress, the level advancement table will indicate when you can acquire new skills. At these points, you have the option to either advance in a Skill Set you already know (provided you meet the prerequisites) or learn a new one.

Note: To learn and use a Skill Set, your character must meet certain attribute prerequisites. Make sure your character fulfills these requirements by the end of the character creation process.

Your character's abilities and potential are portrayed through their attributes. These core traits establish your character's physical, mental, and magical competencies, illustrating their aptitudes and restrictions within the game world.

 There are four different attributes: Strength, Agility, Intelligence, and Wits. The average person is represented by a 5 in each Attribute. 

When creating your character, you start with a base value of 5 in each attribute. You have 6 attribute points that you can distribute as you wish. However, keep in mind that you cannot add more than 3 points to a single attribute during this process.

It's important to note that regardless of your approach, your character's lineage and appearance do not directly define their Backstory. These details, including backstory, personality, motivations, and how your character fits into the game world, are developed collaboratively with your Dungeon Master. 

Additionally, your background also plays a crucial role in defining the material goods you begin your adventure with. Each background provides a set of starting items, and the amount of coins your character possesses. It's worth noting that backgrounds which offer more coins may grant fewer initial items and proficiency, while those with a more robust initial inventory might provide fewer coins.

Before embarking on your adventure, your Dungeon master may allow you to allocate some of your coins towards purchasing items from a shop or investing in training to acquire new proficiencies. Or even grants you item related to your backstory.

Once you done building your character, the last step is to finalise you backstory. This means figuring out what happened to your character before the adventure starts. Your backstory is collaborative work between you and your Dungeon Master to see how your vision fits in the world he is presenting to you. Below is a list of question to help you create your backstory:

Languages will depend on the setting you are playing; talk with your Dungeon Master to see which ones would be appropriate for your character. 

By default, your character knows Common, a language that most people speak as a second tongue, and your regional language. For example, if you were born in Fantasylandia, you speak Common and Fantasylandese.

Now it is time to fill out your character sheet. The character sheet is where you record all information about your character. In this section, we will go step by step on how to fill it out.

 At the bottom of the page, you will find a printable PDF if you are playing with pen and paper, and a spreadsheet format if you are playing online. Note that the spreadsheet will handle many calculations for you.

You will also find the example character sheet fill out as reference to help you.

In the top left corner, you have 4 squares labeled with the name of each attribute. This is where you annotate the points you have selected when distributing your attribute points.

First, check if your lineage grants you any bonus attribute points. If so, adjust the values annotated before accordingly. Otherwise, in the bottom right corner, you will find a square entitled "Skills, Lineage, and Feats." There, you can write the names of abilities granted by your lineage, if any.

 Note: Only the names will fit since the space is limited. It is recommended that you print out or copy the information on another page.

On the top right corner, you will find a rectangle titled "Coins." This is where you annotate the amount of coins granted by your backstory and keep track of any changes due to buying, selling, or earning coins. 

Below that, you will find a square named "Equipment." Here, you note all wearable equipable items, including armor, clothing, jewelry, or other accessories provided by your background. 

In order, you note the name of the item, then the Defense bonus if any, details such as if it's enchanted, and then the Magic Burden value if any. Magic burden is a representation of how many magical items your character can carry and use at once. 

At the top right of this square, you note your maximum Magical Burden, which is your Intelligence + your Wits + your level. On the left of the same space, you write the sum of all Magic burdens of currently equipped items. You cannot have an item equipped if the sum of magic burden would bring you above the maximum.

At the bottom right you will find a square named "inventory", there you can list all other items granted by your background, including weapons.

Above this is another square intitulated "Proficiencies and Languages", here you note down all your proficiencies and languages you know.

Now in the "Skills, Lineage, and Feats" section, you can note the different abilities and spells granted by your Skill Set. 

Note that only the names will fit since the space is limited. It is recommended that you print out or copy the information on another page.

On top of your character sheet, you might also need:

•  A page where your backstory is written down, in case there is any information you need to recall from there such as names.

• Print or copied details of your skills, spells, and abilities. Remembering the full details of every spell is not possible, so it's better to have it handy for when you need it.