⭐ Advantages & disadvantages
Traits that shape who your hero is — beyond the numbers. Advantages cost points; disadvantages return them and add colour.
Advantages
Advantages are useful traits that aren't skills: things your character either was born with, learned outside training, or earned through circumstance. A few examples from the default list:
- Ambidextrous — equally handy with either hand.
- Eagle Eyed — exceptional vision; spot details from far away.
- High Pain Threshold — endure pain without significant impairment.
- Lucky — fortune favours you in unpredictable situations.
- Natural Leader — inspire and lead others effectively.
- Powerful or Influential Friend(s) — someone in the world owes you a favour.
- Member of a Professional Organization — guild backing, contacts, and rules.
The full list of defaults is available in the app, and the GM may approve custom advantages on request.
Disadvantages: a deliberate tool
Disadvantages give back character points you can spend elsewhere — but they also shape the character. A hot temper, an enemy from your past, a code of honour: each one gives the GM hooks and the table colour. Use them to fund breadth or a signature edge, not just to inflate one stat.
A few examples from the default list:
- Code of Conduct — a code to live by, or die for. The do's and don'ts are not optional.
- Compulsion — a strong, hard-to-resist urge.
- Haunted — visions or ghosts from the past you'll have to face.
- Phobia — a fear that overrides good judgement.
- Secret — something serious that would hurt you if revealed.
- Vengeful — driven by a need to settle a wrong.
- Wanted — someone with reach wants you off the streets.
Pick disadvantages you'd enjoy roleplaying. The GM will use them; that's the point.
Balance with your party
Coordinate roughly with the table. A whole party of brooding loners with secret pasts can stall a campaign; a whole party of code-of-honour paragons can struggle when nuance is needed. Aim for a mix that gives the GM lots of threads without making any one session impossible.