Unknown Armies:Character Creation
Who you are
You are a person who is turning away from the everyday to scratch deeper. You believe there are secrets that are worth learning. You are determined to discover them.
You are not boring. You are an obsessed, passionate individual with a distinctive personality.
What you can do
You rate yourself with four stats: Body, Speed, Mind, and Soul. Each stat is a number from 1-100, the higher the better. From 30-70 is the typical range of adult human ability, so if you want a stat higher or lower than that range, you'd better have a good reason to feed the GM.
The number of points you have to divide among your stats depends on the kind of campaign you are creating a character for:
- Street-level points: 220
- Global-level points: 240
- Cosmic-level points: 260
With your stats in place, you pick skills: natural, learned, or unnatural abilities like Driving, Shooting Guns, Lying, or Seeing Auras. Each skill is assigned to a single stat. You use your stat levels as points to set your skills, and a given skill can't be higher than the stat that governs it. The more points you put into a stat, the more points you have available for the skills linked to that stat. It's a co-dependant relationship.
How you change
Only the dead are static. You are a dynamic, living person. Who isn't content to sit around doing nothing. You're going to get out into the occult underground and make waves. As you do, you're goign to make a rep for yourself. But you're also going to get better at the things you do.