<span class="bbc_u"><strong>The Very Basics of Building a Sorcerer</strong></span><br/><br/>1.  Allocate ten points between Stamina, Will, and Lore.<br/>2.  Choose descriptors for Stamina, Will, and Lore.  You may choose 2 if you have a score of 5 or higher.<br/>3.  Set Humanity to the higher of Stamina or Will.<br/>4.  Choose a Cover and set it to equal either Stamina or Will as appropriate.<br/>5.  Create the starting demon (see below)<br/>6.  Choose your Telltale.<br/>7.  Choose a Price.<br/>8.  List out important NPCs and places as background.<br/>9.  Flesh out appearance and personality, test for protagonism / likeability and combat readiness, tie up loose ends.<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Character Sheet</strong></span><br/><br/>Character Name:<br/>Description:<br/><br/>Stamina: (score) / (descriptor)<br/>Will: (score) / (descriptor)<br/>Lore: (score) / (descriptor)<br/>Cover: (score) / (descriptor) (Equal to Stamina or Will, as appropriate)<br/>Price: -1 / (descriptor)<br/>Humanity: (Equal to higher of Stamina or Will)<br/>Telltale: (something that gives away your sorcerous nature)<br/><br/><br/><strong>Descriptors for Sleep of Reason</strong><br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">Stamina</span></strong><br/><strong>Athletic Regime</strong>-- regular workouts keep you fit and alert.<br/><strong>Chemically Heightened</strong>-- uppers are your means to physical excellence<br/><strong>Military Training</strong>-- you can shoot, brawl, and keep your head in a fight<br/><strong>Natural Vigor</strong>-- you're one of those people who are simply fit without even trying<br/><strong>Specialized Combat Training</strong>-- sports or martial-arts fighting experience.<br/><strong>Scrapper</strong>-- you have a violent background and know how to stick a thumb in someone's eye.<br/><strong>Clean liver</strong>-- you take care of your health and are physically fit.<br/><strong>Dying </strong>– Cancer, a weak heart, failing organs, you sense that your time is just around the corner. Your body has betrayed you, but you are desperately hanging on for some particular reason…<br/><strong>Prison Physique</strong>– One look at your frame and your old school ink and people know your gym was the exercise yard of some high-security prison.<br/><strong>Steady Diet of Cigarettes and TV </strong>– Your body has been honed by the modern age of cable television, beer, potato chips, and a comfy couch. In other words, you look like shit.<br/><strong>Strung Out on Crank/Pharmaceuticals</strong>– Lean and gaunt and skeletal, you’re only strength comes from what little desperation you can eke out of your famished and punished body.<br/><strong>Wheel-Chair Bound/Disabled</strong>– It could have been a wartime incident or an automobile accident, a birth or congenital defect, but whatever the reason is, you are at a disadvantage in society, being severely limited by your disability.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Will</strong></span><br/><strong>Belief system</strong>-- totally religious, totally rationalist, whatever -- you are sure you know how the universe works.<br/><strong>High Self-esteem</strong>-- You know you have intrinsic value.  People either admire your confidence or call you arrogant.<br/>Zest for life -- if it ain't fun, it ain't worth doing.<br/><strong>Rage/vengeance</strong>-- someone is going to pay for what has happened to you.<br/><strong>Academically Trained </strong>-– You spent a bit of money and now have a piece of paper certifying that you’ve jumped through the hoops.<br/><strong>Fixated</strong>– You’re desperate for something more, something outside you that you constantly fix your full attention on, both a source of strength and weakness.<br/><strong>“Just a Little Too Tense”</strong>– You’re wound tighter than spring. The intensity of your stare makes other people uneasy.<br/>Sensitive – You perceive things that other people ignore or overlook. You experience a world different from that those around you experience.<br/><strong>Serene</strong>– This world can be a really shitty place, but for everyone around you, you are an island of sanity and decency even in the thick of it.<br/><strong>Manipulative User</strong>-- you home in on others' weak spots to get what you want.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Lore</strong></span><br/><strong>“In Depravity There is Wisdom”</strong>-- You have done a lot of things you should be ashamed of. Maybe you never had a conscience, or maybe you’re just good at quashing it, but by exploring the dark side of your personality and your world you have learned a great many terrible things. Sure, the nightmares were difficult, but that was just another realm to explore. Now that you have plumbed those depths, you have gained greater power than you would have ever thought… Pity the world…<br/><strong>Narcoleptic</strong>– You have dramatic sleep onsets where amidst your work or play you instantly collapse asleep. Doctors claim it is simply a case of Narcolepsy, but the dreams you have during these fits are unlike any dreams you normally have at night…<br/><strong>Night Terrors</strong>-- You suffered Night Terrors as a child. Perhaps it was the medication or the experiments, or it could have been something you taught yourself, but you learned early on that there was more to your dreams than most people believe.<br/><strong>Premonitions</strong>-- Perhaps it could have been a “gift” from your family, your destiny, an act of the divine, or some “sixth sense” you tapped into, but you have always had premonitions and watched tomorrow unfold in your dreams. Aware of this, you have gradually explored your powers and are not only close to mastering your abilities, but have discovered a remarkable amount about the Dreams that provide you with your power.<br/><strong>Occult Experience/Training/Library</strong>-- Perhaps you were a skeptic regarding the paranormal or an academic investigator, but somewhere along the way something convinced you, made you a believer, and spurred your own researches into the unknown. That experience still haunts your dreams…<br/><strong>Waking World/Dreamworld Mentored</strong>-- You have a mentor or mentors that have endowed you with terrible knowledge. They may have trained and taught you in the Waking World: your satanic cult parents, your stern Roma grandmother, or the Order of the Rosy Twilight. Or they may have come to you in your dreams: the man that claimed to be your “real” father, your kindly grandmother, or the voice from the cellar in your dreams. They introduced you to your own little Dreamworld, a place where you have power and knowledge… friends… and enemies…<br/>