Follow the steps below to create a player character.

• Roll ability scores
  • Roll all six stats in order (STR,CON,DEX,INT,WIS,CHA) six times
  • Choose a character from those six sets of rolls
  • The GMs get the other five for NPCs
• Choose a heritage
  • English, Welsh, Scottish, Norwegian, Danish, Norman, Irish, Frankish, Spanish, Italian, Byzantines or Moorish
  • I tried to leave out Spaniards and Italians, but it just didn't feel complete without them, we may consider rolling the Danes, Norwegians and Icelanders (Swedes too) as a single Northman background
  • I was hoping we could keep it around eight backgrounds. I'm having trouble coming up with interesting fantasy tropes that relate to each heritage. For example, I totally took cues from Shakespeare with respect to the Danish people.
  • STR = Scots, CON = English& Norwegian, DEX = Welsh, INT = Danes, Frankish, WIS = Irish, Italians, CHA = Spanish =⇒ At this point, why not add one more for an even dozen so the six attributes are represented by two heritages? Byzantine? Turkish?
• New thought on backgrounds: go for a series of Decks. Deck-1 family profession: usually gets you just a skill or tool proficiency; Deck-2 Weird background–use the backgrounds currently on your heritage tables, you can freely open up the rewards; Deck-3 Special Features: total grab-bag. Each player can choose to draw from none, some or all of the decks, picks three cards from any deck he chooses and selects the 1 card that he wishes to apply to his character. Special Features are picked at First, 4th and 8th level, the other 2 are only chosen at generation. This will give a wide possible set of elements added to the characters, and it remains quick and snappy, not bogging down generation and not creating “ideal build” syndrome.
• Generate your character's backstory
• Pick a class
• NOTE character's Languages
• Pick equipment
• Decide on supply carried
• Determine total load
• Pick spells (if applicable)
• Fill out character sheet