🤠 The cowboy (50 points)
Western — Dust & Destiny
Ranch and drive. The horse comes first; the rifle is for what the rope cannot hold.
Concept and assumptions
- Starting budget: 50 character points.
- Genre: pick Dust & Destiny in the app.
- Tone: grounded frontier. No Shamanic pool. Mount via HasMount.
- Party role: the person who can move the herd, find water, and shoot from the saddle if they must.
Statistics — 20 points
- Strength 12 (3 pts) — rope, lift, and a long day.
- Agility 13 (6 pts) — riding, roping, rifle.
- Intelligence 11 (1 pt)
- Constitution 13 (6 pts) — the drive does not stop for a sore back.
- Willpower 11 (1 pt) — Animal Handling.
- Speed +2 (3 pts) — Agility 13, Speed 8.
Guns & belt — 10 points
- Weapon skill: Rifle (AGI) at level 3 — target 16.
- Weapon skill: Pistol (AGI) at level 2
- Weapon skill: Knife (AGI) at level 1
Ranch skills — 13 points
- Riding (AGI) at level 3 — target 16.
- Roping (AGI) at level 2
- Animal Handling (WIL) at level 2
- Survival (INT) at level 1
Names match the Dust & Destiny skill list.
Totals so far
20 + 10 + 13 = 43. Seven points for traits.
Suggested traits — 7 points
- Ranch Born, Born in the Saddle, or Natural Roper.
- Or a refund from Debt or Illiterate spent on a higher Riding or Rifle.