Let's create a Vaults of Vaarn 1e character!
This week, to add to my series of character creation posts (which started a few weeks ago with a Cairn 2e character ), I'll make a Vaults of Vaarn 1e character. This game, which recently had a hugely successful crowdfunding campaign for its 2nd edition, originally came out as a series of zines which detail a bizarre sci-fantasy setting, which can be adapted to most OSR games. Issue 1, though, also contains a ruleset inspired by Knave and a character creation process. Let's go through it! 1. First we roll 3d6 in order for the 6 ABILITIES : Strength , Dexterity , Constitution , Intellect , Psyche and Ego . We can then swap two of them, if we want (I'll keep them in order, as I don't have any character in mind). The peculiarity of this system is that we don't add up the dice, but instead the value of the lowest die in each set becomes the ability's BONUS, to which we add 10 to find its DEFENCE value. Let's roll: - 5, 2, 2 for Stre...