Your Character
Hi everyone,
In this dev-blog, we will talk about Character Backgrounds and Starsigns.
Your character has three attributes: Strength, Dexterity and Intelligence. He has a talent stone which he can use to unleash special powers. He can further buy or find these stones for different powers like whirlwind attack or power strike. He also has twelve skills categorized with respect to attributes:
At this point, let us emphasize that you have complete freedom to choose how to customize your character. You will gain 1 attribute and 1 skill point each time you level up and you are free to distribute them the way you see fit. You can also buy skill points from the adventurer's guild. This allows you to develop very unique characters.
At the beginning of the game, you start by choosing a background and a star sign to your character. These first choices not only give certain boost to your attributes and skills, but also define your starting gold, equipment, items and talent stones.
Right now, we have six different backgrounds and twelve star signs. We will introduce at least four more backgrounds before the game hits Early Access. So you will have 120 different characters you can choose to start with.
To give you some clear idea, let’s put here the details of one character we can make:
EXILED PRINCE Some start life with fortune but at some point, things took a downturn for this man. He is wealthy and articulate, and relies on his rather basic combat education from his days of court.
He starts with: 3 health potions, meat, silver ring, silk vest and silk boots and 750 coins.
His attributes:
- Strength - 5
- Dexterity - 7
- Intelligence - 9
His starting skills:
- Melee Combat - 1
- Ranged Combat - 1
- Defense Mastery - 2
- Critical Focus - 2
- Speechcraft - 3
And then we choose a star sign. Let’s say we choose The Queen. This gives him further +2 Speechcraft points.
This character now has 5 Speechcraft points which gives him superb advantage in haggle. So he will be offered better prices at the shops. He will also be able to more easily convince NPCs to pay him more for the quests or bandits to extort him less.
On the other hand, he has poor skills in combat, and his strength is also low. So it would be wise to use the speechcraft skill to buy some good equipment and strength potions and, in general, to avoid fight as much as you possibly can.
Now it’s up to you to decide whether this man continues his journey the way he knows how to live: talk his way out of situations, run and hide when he cannot. Or you may decide that his Speechcraft needs no further upgrading, and his endeavors are teaching him to be tough. So then you have your own unique character who is well versed but also knows how to fight.
And next time you play, you can be a whole new character in a whole new island.
It’s up to you, really, what to make out of Terra Randoma.