I've been going through and editing a first draft of Chapters 1 & 2. Here's a bit I put in as a series of sidebars, an example of a fictional player creating a character:
Character Creation Example: Let's take a look as one of out players, Jenny, goes through the character creation steps.
Step 1: Jenny decides she wants a warrior who's especially good at both Skirmishes and Battles, so she choose to be a samurai from the Matsu uji. She gets the Meibutsu of Battle (Skirmish), and decides her samurai's full name is Matsu no Ikoma Tsunari.
Step 2: Jenny decides that she wants Tsunari to keep up that Skirmish/Battle theme, so makes her Water and Fire a 3. The rerst of her Rings (Air, Earth, & Void) are a 2.
Step 3 & 4: She's decided Tsunari studied the Akodo Bushi Discipline, so her Glory Rank is 1 and her Honor Rank is 3. It also adds to her Perception, so ow that Trait is 4.
Step 5: Jenny assigns the following ranks to Tsunari's Discipline Skills: Bajutsu 2, Battle 3, Defense 3, Etiquette 2, Kenjutsu 4, and Kyujutsu 2. Her Meibutsu raises her Battle to 5 with the Skirmish Emphasis, and she also adds Iaijutsu (Rank 3 due to her Fire) and Lore (Rank 2 due to her Air) for her two extra Skills. For her 3 extra Emphases, she adds Battle (Strategy), Kenjutsu (Katana), and Defense (Dodge), plus Lore gives her free Emphasis. She chooses History.
Step 6: Jenny outfits Tsunari with the equipment proper for an Akodo Bushi: Katana, wakizashi, yumi, 20 arrows (she chooses to just have the regular ya), light armor, traveling pack, kimono, sandals, and 2 koku.
Step 7: Now she chooses her Qualities. She decides to focus on combat Advantages, and choose Combat Reflexes and Death Trance, to be adaptive and fearless. Of course she also dreams of being a great general, so she takes Tactician (which is only a Minor Quality since she is both Matsu and Akodo). Then she takes the Social Positio Advatage to get a bit more Glory (making her Glory Rank 2). To offset those two Advantages she takes Brash and Fascination (Battles) as Disadvantages.
Step 8: Time to add up her Insight.
Ring Total Ranks x 10: 12 x 10 = 120
Skill Total Ranks (3+) + Emphases: 7 + 5 = 12
So her Insight is 132, making her still Insight Rank 1.
Step 9: She adds the Akodo Bushi Rank 1 Okuden to her character sheet: Way of the Lion.
Step 10: Tsunari's Earth is 2, so her Wounds per Level are 4.
Step 11: Now Jenny gets together with the other players who have finished their characters:
Seth: Asahina no Otomo Yayu (Isawa Shugenja 1)
Chris: Sanzo (Ronin Bushi 1)
Daniel: Doji no Soshi Kuwaidan (Bayushi Teishin 1)
Katie: Eisai (Shinmaki Gakusho 1)
The highest Glory Rank belongs to Otomo Yayu, who is Glory Rank 3. Thus the Wa's Rank is 3. Jenny is both combat-minded and concerned about her wa, so she chooses a Dojo at Rank 1 and a Mura at Rank 1 as her Holdings. For Tsuanari's giri, she quickly chooses Fire, as Tsunari is a natural warrior and leader.
Step 12: For her initial Season Actions, she first chooses to take Shelter at the Dojo and gets lucky rolling for no Trouble. Since it's Spring, she has 3 Season Actions (Water of 3), and chooses to spend 1 towards raising her Strength towards 4, 1 towards raising her Reflexes to 3, and 1 to raise her Kenjutsu to 5. With her free Seaso Action from the Dojo, she decides to raise her Kyujutsu to 3.
Ikoma Tsunari is set to go!
Since writing this, I should note that, except for Ikoma Tsunari, I've decided the rest of the Jade Waterfall Wa should not be assigned preexisting characters. Since all those names are actual people I have loved playing with, they can make their own. And then I'll put them up here. And tomorrow I'll show you what I'm thinking for gakusho (monks).
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