Quick Start Guide

The first step in playing Legend is creating a character for your Legend game. If you are playing a one-shot or a similar brief game, and only require enough information to fill out a character sheet, you can use the Quick Start Guide to generate a character. If you are playing a longer game, you may wish to devote a little more time and effort to developing a character concept and finding the mechanical abilities that best support it; see Advanced Character Creation.

Quick Start

To create a character quickly, follow these steps:

Choose a Race

Choose a race from the options detailed in Races: Elf, Dwarf, Gnome, Halfling, Human, or Orc.

Choose a Class

Legend Core Classes

Class	HP/Lvl	BAB	Good Saves	Bad Save	KOM	KDM	Skills	Description
Barbarian	10	Good	Any Two	Any One	Varies	Con	5	Terrifying and tough melee fighter
Monk	8	Good	Any Two	Any One	Wis	Con	6	Fast, precise martial artist
Paladin	10	Good	Fort, Will	Ref	Str	Cha	5	Supernaturally powerful arbiter of justice
Ranger	10	Good	Fort, Ref	Will	Dex	Int	6	Hunter, scout, and special operative
Rogue	8	Varies	Ref, Any One	Any One	Varies	Varies	Varies	Trickster who relies on skill in battle
Sage	8	Poor	Any Two	Any One	Varies	Varies	6	Master of arcane secrets and battle magic
Shaman	8	Poor	Fort, Will	Ref	Wis	Cha	6	Spellcaster with powers that heal or harm
Tactician	8	Poor	Ref, Will	Fort	Int	Con	9	Spellcaster who controls the battlefield

Choose a class from the table "Legend Core Classes." The tracks associated with each class, along with full descriptions of each track’s abilities, can be found in on their respective pages. If you have to make choices associated with your tracks (such as spell selection or choosing between different tracks for which you're eligible), make them now and write your tracks and track abilities down on your character sheet.

Assign Ability Scores

The default ability scores in Legend are 16, 14, 14, 12, 10, and 10. Assign them to Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma, in the order you prefer. In general, it is best to assign high scores to your character’s Key Abilities, since those are the abilities on which your character most relies in a broad variety of situations.

Choose Your Skills

Choose skills. The number of skills available to the class you chose is noted in "Legend Core Classes." The skills you choose are considered "trained." You gain a bonus equal to your level on all skill checks using trained skills, as explained in Skills.