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• Core Attributes: 1/3/4
• Each background adds 1/2/3 to that
• Culture has 6 specialties
• Each background has 8 distinctive features
• Each culture has weapon skills of 2F 1 1 or (2) 1 1
• Each culture has 28-32 points of common skills with no level higher than 3
• Each culture has one favored skill
• Each background has one favored skill
• Each culture has up to 3 rewards
• Each culture has up to 6 virtues
• Each culture has one cultural ability.
• Each culture has an Endurance base (16-28) and Hope Base (6-12); the sum of End+2(hope)=38-40

Corvo wrote:@Aramis:

Different common skill points for different cultures? Are you sure?

Corvo wrote:All cultures got 29 points in common skills.

frodolives wrote: Here is a basic guide to creating a new background within an existing culture:

1) Attributes: distribute 14 points, with no score landing higher than 7 or lower than 2.

Primary Attribute - 5 to 7
Secondary Attribute - 4 to 6
Tertiary Attribute - 2 to 4

2) Favoured Skill: select one skill

3) Distinctive Features: select 8 traits, from which the player chooses two.


If you want to go even further and develop a new culture, here's what to do:

1) Standard of living: select one from Poor, Frugal, Martial, Prosperous.

2) Typical Adventurers: select two Callings as being most common, and one that is rare for the culture.

3) Develop a Cultural Blessing: this generally allows the culture to 'break' a rule, such as ignoring the effects of being Weary or Miserable during combat, rolling the Feat die twice when making a Fear test, and so on.

4) Common Skills: using the skill costs (below), spend 29 points with no skill achieving a final value higher than 3. Underline one skill as being 'favoured'. Favoured skills must have a value of either 2 or 3.

Skill costs: to begin with a starting value of 1, spend one point. To begin with a starting value of 2, spend 3 points. To begin with a starting value of 3, spend 6 points.

5) Weapons: develop 2 choices for the culture. The first choice follows this format: (Weapon Group) 2, specific weapon 1, specific weapon 1. The second choice follows this format: Specific Weapon (favoured) 2, specific weapon 1, specific weapon 1.

6) Specialities: devise a list of six Traits, from which the player will select two.

7) Languages: list one primary language and one secondary language (if appropriate; some races do not have a secondary language).

8) Adventuring Age: list a range (in years) that characters of this culture most often turn to adventuring.

9) List of suitable names for the culture