Dungeons & Dinosaurs (And

Bigfoot):
The Age of Iron Role-Playing Game

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 Chapter 2: Character Generation
Generating a character is a multi-step
process, but at its completion each
player will have their Adventurer ready
to strike out against the abyss!
Step 1: Choose Race
Humans are not alone on Kairos, with
Laisaur and Troglodytes commonly
found in the Adventurers. When
generating characters, each player must
select one of these races, and this race
will determine certain skills available
to your character. The races and racial
skills available to them are explained
in detail on pages XX-XX.
Step 2: Allocate
Characteristic Points
Each player, having chosen their race,
has twelve Awesome Points (AP) to
spend on their Adventurer's
characteristics, which are as follows:
Finesse (Fin): This is your character's
ability to wield their weapons with
skill, rather than sheer brute strength,
as well as their ability to perform
trickier or more complicated actions
with their hands.
Strength (Str): As the name implies,
this is the Adventurer's sheer brawn -
their ability to press attacks and lift
loads.
Resilience (Res): This is your
character's ability to take hits without
falling unconscious or sustaining too
serious an injury, as well as their
ability to resist a few poisons, etc.
Intellect (Int): This is your
Adventurer's natural intelligence, and
will allow them to learn complicated
theories or deal with new information
with ease. Note that this is your
character's natural intelligence, and so
even characters who have never been
taught anything can still possess a
natural intellect.
Willpower (WP): If Resilience is your
character's ability to deal with physical
pressure, then Willpower is its mental
equivalent. Willpower is their ability to
deal with mental assault and resist
temptation.
Speed (Sp): This is the character's
swiftness and agility - this is what
allows them to dodge incoming blows
and to race into (or away from!)
combat.
Luck (L): Whether divine favour,
cunning schemes or honest good
chance, the Adventurers seem to
possess some incredible reserves of
luck that allow them to survive the
strangest encounters.
Awareness (Aw): This is your
character's ability to take note of their
surroundings and see the details and
patterns in what happens around them.
When generating a character, you must
spend at least 1 AP on each of these
characteristics, and no character may
start play with more than 3 in any
single characteristic.
Step 3: Choose Skills
Finally, each character may spend an
additional 8 AP on skills from their
racial and/or Adventurer skill sets for
the points listed.
 Humans
Humans are arguably amongst the
most common life forms on Kairos,
and easily amongst the most varied - at
least in terms of ideology! Due to
being the most common race in Magna
Thule, they have also been the most
common race amongst the
Adventurers, and have been drawn
from every walk of life, from soldier to
sorcerer, priest to princess, merchant to
monk.
Humans must choose from one of the
three following 'sub-races' when
generating a new character:
Civilised Human
Drawn from Thule, Luxantium or
perhaps even Amon Tor or the Gedrosi
Lands, civilised humans are those who
have spent their entire lives