Episode 110: Spectre Character Creation Guide

💡 This podcast episode discusses the process of creating a spectre in the Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition role-playing game.

📚 To create a spectre, players will need a copy of the Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition core book.

👻 Spectres in Wraith: The Oblivion belong to different castes, including Mortalites, Doppelgangers, and Shades, each with unique characteristics.

📚 You need to create character sheets for both your main character and your psyche in this Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition guide.

🎲 There is no specific system or dice roll to determine character stats in this RPG, allowing players to freely design their characters.

💀 Specters are evil creatures fueled by dark passions and oblivion, with unique appearances and behaviors that make characters feel uncomfortable.

📚 The video discusses the backstory of a character named Alice, who had troubled relationships and exhibited violent behavior as a child.

🎭 The concept of 'demeanor' and 'nature' in character creation is explained, highlighting how a character presents themselves to the world versus their true nature.

💪 Different archetypes, such as the child archetype and the bravo nature, are introduced, each providing unique abilities and ways to regain willpower.

💡 The attribute section is divided into physical, mental, and social categories.

🔢 Assign one point to all attributes and distribute additional points among primary, secondary, and tertiary attributes.

🎭 Abilities are divided into talents, skills, and knowledges and are prioritized in primary, secondary, and tertiary groups.

🔑 Alice's background consists of points in Shadowlands and Labyrinth, with plans to add more allies and contacts later.

🔮 Spectres have access to a wide range of arconai powers, divided into common and initiate arts.

💀 Specters' dark passions fuel their actions and desires, and Alice's dark passions include advancing decay, destroying hierarchy, and finding a twisted family.

📌 Allocate points to important objects, people, and places tied to former mortal life.

💪 Spend freebie points on corpus, willpower, abilities, background, fetters, and angst.

🤼‍♂️ Create a psyche to counteract worst impulses and acts of cruelty.

💡 The permanent pay force of a psyche is determined by their willpower, which is rolled with a set number of d10s.

💡 Passions in the psyche are similar to dark passions of the specter, and they can be connected to or detached from the main dark passions.

💡 The psyche has freebie points that can be spent on passions, willpower, and fronds, which are unique powers.