Game of Honor

Hey, so, everybody. Make a new thread for your character and post him. Go ahead and follow character creation instructions from the book.


Step 0: Concept

Before doing anything else, consider your character for a moment.
What kind of character do you want to play? Honorable? Treacherous?
Ambitious? Think about it for a moment before you begin.

Step 1: Choose a Name

Your character’s name is important: it adds one die to all
appropriate risks. Pick a name and then, pick the name’s meaning. If
the meaning is appropriate to a risk, add one die to that risk.

Step 2: Choose Giri (Duty)

Now determine your position in the Daimyo’s court. This is
called giri, or “duty” or “obligation.” This is the role you fulfill
for the Daimyo. There can be more than one court officer per
court. In other words, a Daimyo may have two yojimbo or
hatamoto if he chooses. Your Giri provides three advantages.
All samurai start with rank 1 Giri.

Step 3: Choose Virtues

You must now assign ranks to the Virtues. There are six Virtues,
but unfortunately, you only get five of them. The sixth is your
weakness. You will have no ranks in that Virtue. Not now, not ever.
Well, that’s not completely true. But not now, for sure. And not in the
near future.

Assign these ranks to your Virtues:
• One Virtue at rank 4.
• Two Virtues at rank 3.
• Two Virtues at rank 2.
• One Virtue as a weakness (write “W”).
Having a weakness means you have no dice for that particular
Virtue. You must find dice elsewhere (in Aspects, Duty, etc.). Having
a weakness does not mean you never roll dice for a particular kind of
risk, it means that Virtue gives you no dice.

Step 4: Choose Aspects

You now choose two of the four Aspects your Clan has chosen to
define its samurai. Every samurai receives the None of Us… Aspect for
free, so you may choose two Aspects in addition to None of Us is as
Great as All of Us.

Step 5: Honor & Glory

Your character begins with two ranks of Honor. This gives you two
Honor Points for the Honor Pool. See more about Honor Points in
the Honor & Glory section.

Your character begins with one rank of Glory. He is a lesser-
known samurai without a reputation. Because you have one Glory
Rank, you may write a single word or phrase on the line next to your
Glory rank. This word or phrase represents your reputation. It could
be “great sword fighter” or “wise judgment” or “rash and impulsive.”
Whatever you like.

Step 6: Advantages

You may have one Advantage. Pick from the list

(here, you may want to open up your thread as a place to discuss the options. Maybe you're thinking about playing a Hostage from another House and are looking at the Outsider advantage, etc and you want some people to give you feedback and avoid overlap. Everyone help each other out, be cool people.
-Alfred)

Step 7: Age

Finally, determine your character’s starting Age. Not his literal age,
but the number of Age Points your character has. Roll one six-sided
die. That’s your character’s starting Age Points.

alfred, you forgot the most important part of my truth: a certain adj.

sex·y
/ˈseksē/
Adjective
Sexually attractive or exciting.
Sexually aroused.

Also if we go with fantasy-esque names, how are we gonna handle this? Or is it if we come up with bullshit combos like

Jon Hammersfell ...which actually doesn't sound that bad

edit: I take it real name variants and/or if we want to do horrid names like Erik ShadowDancer

Come on noobs

I feel like jt and/or adam said they were interested in spymaster and/or courtier at some point but I can't find it anywhere. So maybe I'm hallucinating.

edit: just claim spymaster simon

I'm fine with doubling up, I just thought that it'd be an idea to clarify who was interested in what, just in case anyone thought it'd be redundant to have two whatevers.

I'm happy to let someone else be spymaster and take seneschal, honestly!