step 2.

STATS

Stats are your character’s core aptitudes and shape the general type of character you’ll play. You’ve probably seen them in other games — things like Strength, Intelligence, Agility, etc. In BLADESPEAKER, these abilities are FINESSE, INTELLECT, MIGHT, WILL, WITS and LUCK. Each of these stats feed into skills and resources your character has, making them more effective when using them or giving them more of a certain resource. In addition, these will play into your character’s social approach type, and you’ll have to pick a strong stat and a weak stat at the start.

First, pick your strong and weak stats. Put +2 and -2 in them respectively. You have 2 more points to spend on your non-strong or -weak stats from there. You can also take a -1 in a non-strong or - weak stat to increase another by +1 further. An example array is on the right.

example stat array

• FIN 1 (1 of 2 extra)

• INT (+) 3 (strong, -1 from WITS)

• MIT (-) -2 (weak)

• WIL 1 (2 of 2 extra)

• WIT -1 (+1 to INT)

• LCK 0 (no point change)

Finesse

Your quickness, precision, smoothness and control.

• Increases your Dodge and Parry defenses

• Reduces the number of ticks per action

• Increases movement speed

• Increases your ability to Penetrate (PEN) defenses

intellect

Your acuity, memory, reasoning, and general knowledge.

• Increases your number of skill points at each level

• Increases the number of skills and abilities you can know

• Increases your pool of Magic Points (MP)

• Increases your number of languages known

might

Your physical fitness, strength, coordination, and endurance.

• Increases your pool of Hit Points (HP) and Stamina (STA)

• Reduces Damage Reduction (DR) applied to your attacks

• Increases your Block defense

• Increases your inventory size

will

Your resolve, spirit, grit and presence.

• Increases your Magic Resistance (MR)

• Increases your resource (MP, STA, etc) regeneration

• Increases your pool of Resolve (RES)

• Increases your chance of defying death when below 0 HP

WITS

Your perception, reflexes, intuition, and mental quickness.

• Increases your Initiative rolls

• Increases your chance of acting during an Ambush

• Increases your pool of Sanity (SAN)

• Increases your opportunity attack and defense

LUCK

Your character’s uncanniness, fortune, and favor of the odds.

• Increases your pool of Luck Dice (LD)

• Increases your critical hit range

• Increases your enemies’ critical fail range

step 3.

starsign TALENTS

Talents are major passive abilities that develop as your grow over personal and party quest milestones. You can seed one talent from your strong stat to start.

GHOST

Don’t get hit

KNAVE

Ignore enemy defenses

MESSENGER

Move for free

THE HERMIT

Get a free ability each level/swap abilities

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Increases MP and MP regen

PUPIL

Gain additional skill points each level

TOWER

Sometimes don’t take damage at all

AUROCHS

Ignore more DR and refund stamina

HANGED MAN

Take more damage but deal much more damage

PYRE

Regain resources from magic attacks

THE STAR

You and allies regen more resources

HIEROPHANT

Gain bonuses from using all your resources

HAWK

Regain resources from magic attacks

CUPBEARER

You and allies regen more resources

WISP

Gain bonuses from using all your resources

THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE

More rerolls / odds and evens

THE DEVIL

Sacrifice to reroll

THE FOOL

Certain rolls are wild

step 4.

Origins

Talents are major passive abilities that develop as your grow over personal and party quest milestones. You can seed one talent from your strong stat to start.

HUMAN

Don’t get hit

OTHER

Ignore enemy defenses

BEASTKIN

Move for free