PIP

Characters

Switching Princesses in Peril from Freeform to System Based. Please put your character sheets on the discussion page.

There are four fundamental stats that you have 21 points to distribute amongst:

• Physical
• Mental
• Social
• Will

Physical and Mental stats represent your overall abilities in those areas, while Social represents both how generally sociable you are and how good at convincing others you are. The last stat, Will, represents how overall driven you are – the strength of your spirit, determination etc.

It should be noted that during social encounters, you can use other stats to boost your rolls - for example, Physical if you are attempting to quench a conflict with your looming presence, Mental if you are making a reasoned argument based on empirical evidence, Will if you feel very strongly about the subject and are pouring your heart out etc. In such cases, you add half the value of the relevant stat to your Social roll, rounded up.

Your character also has one Speciality, something which they are exceptionally good at, which adds one dice and lowers the target difficulty by one on all relevant rolls.

On top of that, describe the traits and weaknesses of your character in your profile; the target number for these should be 5 or so overall, but don’t feel too constrained by it. These describe what kind of supernatural being your character is, what they do and what unusual they can do – and what their personal weaknesses might be. (which do not necessarily have to be physical or even supernatural; personality traits are fine) These have little mechanical effect – I feel that it’s preferable to leave people breathing room for their concepts instead of possibly forcing them to carve off bits of their characters, so the idea here is to make them flavourful and interesting more than anything else. (though they do inform what supernatural abilities you might use) Just don’t overdo it.