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-====== ORGANIC CHARACTERS ======
+====== CREATING CHARACTERS ======
+  - Choose the faction for your character
+  - Depending on whether they are Distributed Process or one of the organic races will effect how their "skills" work, see the relevant section below
+  - Use the google form below to create a character sheet
+  - Enter your starting equipment from the equipment list.
-Character creation has four steps: expertise, skills, equipment and details
+The prices of skills are shown on the form.
-Use the rules below to create your character.
+[[Skill Effects]]
-Remember to include the character's name, faction, and kit choices.
+===== Organic Characters =====
-Send this to[[ pioneerslarp@gmail.com]], we will confirm your place and send through details for payment
+==== Affinity ====
+The first thing you must pick is your characters affinity: Logic, Aggressive Neuro External, or Empathic Neuro External
-There is a limit of 10 characters per faction. If your faction is oversubscribed, we will get in touch and discuss with you whether you would like to create a different character or be placed in a queue
+**Logic** Characters can buy advanced logic or medicine skills, but can never buy any neuro external skills.
+**Neuro external** characters can buy the relevant neuro external skills, but never skills from the other neuro eternal branch, or any skills from advanced logic or medicine.
+This is chosen at character creation and cannot be changed.
+All organic characters can buy skills from the "universal skills" section.
-====== EXPERTISE ======
+==== Skills ====
+You have six points with which to obtain skills for your character.
-You must pick an expertise for your character
+===== Distributed Process Characters ====
-This reflects the structure of their neurophysiology, and gives access to some advanced skills
-You may not change your expertise in play
-^Expertise	^Gives Access To
-|Advanced Logic	|Medical, repair, scanning and construction skills|
-|Advanced Intuition (Empathy)	|Empathic neuroexternal skills|
-|Advanced Intuition (Aggression)	|Aggressive neuroexternal skills|
+If you are playing in the Distributed Process, rather than buying skills, you have ‘Capacity’ to install four engrams during character creation (The form will not stop you adding more, so please take care not to add more than four)
-====== SKILLS ======
-You have four skill points to spend
-Any unspent skill points are wasted
-Some skills cost more or less for characters from specific factions
-Some skills have prerequisite skills you must purchase first
-====== Skill Costs ======
-[[Earth Empire Skills]]
-[[Federation of Humanity Skills]]
-[[Co-Operative Skills]]
-[[Many Skills]]
-[[Collegiate Assembly of the Tribe of Zebulon Skills]]
-====== DISTRIBUTED PROCESS ======
-Character creation has four steps: engrams, primary engram, equipment and details
-You must set an order for your engrams,
-Send this to[[ pioneerslarp@gmail.com]], we will confirm your place and send through details for payment
-There is a limit of 10 characters per faction. If your faction is oversubscribed, we will get in touch and discuss with you whether you would like to create a different character or be placed in a queue
-ENGRAMS
-You have ‘Capacity’ to install three engrams during character creation
 Engrams largely mirror skills
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 Any unchosen engrams are left as spare Capacity, which can be filled later
 [[Distributed Process Engrams]]
+Engrams are 'design philosophies' adopted by different branches of the Distributed Process. They reflect how an NOI's hardware and software combine to give them complementary abilities and outlooks.
-====== Equipment ======
-[[Kitlist]]
+==== PRIMARY ENGRAMS ====
-====== SKILL EFFECTS ======
+You must pick one engram as your Primary Engram
-===== Universal Skills =====
+Your engrams must be in a set order, with the Primary Engram first
+When crashed, you will lose your last engram first, then the previous one, etc
-^Skill	^Effects^
+Your Primary Engram is the last engram you will lose after sustaining damage
-|Reflexes	|You may ‘DODGE’ up to once a day|
-|Quick reflexes	|You may ‘DODGE’ up to twice a day|
-|Duellist	|You may ‘PARRY’ up to twice a day|
-|Expert duellist	|You may ‘PARRY’ up to four times a day|
-|Conditioning	|You have one additional hit|
-|Extreme Conditioning	|You have a further additional hit|
-|Survivor	|You have an additional 100 seconds of death count|
-|Consummate Survivor	|You have an additional 200 seconds of death count|
-|Spray and pray	|You may call ‘MASS SINGLE’ with an infantry weapon|
-|Support gunner	|You may call ‘MASS DOUBLE’ with a support weapon|
-|Short controlled bursts	|You may call ‘TRIPLE’ with an infantry weapon|
-|Heavy Gunner	|You may call ‘QUAD’ with a support weapon|
-|Assault training	|You may call ‘DOUBLE STRIKEDOWN’ with a shotgun|
+If you lose your primary engram, you are dead
-===== Advanced Logic Skills =====
+You may not remove or change your Primary Engram during downtime
-^Skill	^Effects^
-|Paramedic (Human)	|You may stabilise human characters|
-|Field medic (Human)	|You may heal human characters with a surgical kit|
-|Paramedic (Many)	|You may stabilise Many characters|
-|Field medic (Many)	|You may heal Many characters with a surgical kit|
-|Paramedic (Zebulon)	|You may stabilise Zebulon characters|
-|Field medic (zebulon)	|You may heal Zebulon characters with a surgical kit|
-|Autometrist	You may |repair NOI characters with an engineering kit|
-|Metaware engineer	|You may restore engrams to NOI characters with an engineering kit|
-|Capacitor swap	|You may replace a combat capacitor with 30 seconds of uninterrupted appropriate roleplaying|
-|Capacitor hotswap	|You may replace a combat capacitor with 5 seconds of uninterrupted appropriate roleplaying|
-|Geologist	|You may use a survey scanner to open a blue data envelope after 60 seconds of uninterrupted study|
-|This skill is required to claim mineral resources|
-|Metallurgist	|You may use a survey scanner to open a blue data envelope after 5 seconds of uninterrupted study|
-|Biologist	|You may use a biometric scanner to open a green data envelope after 60 seconds of uninterrupted study|
-|Xenologist	|You may use a biometric scanner to open a green data envelope after 5 seconds of uninterrupted study|
-|Kineticist	|You may use a radiological scanner to open a red data envelope after 60 seconds of uninterrupted study|
-|Particle Physicist	|You may use a radiological scanner to open a red data envelope after 5 seconds of uninterrupted study|
-|Armourer	|You may use resources to construct all forms of arms and armour found in the starting equipment list|
-|Technician	|You may use resources to construct all kits, scanners and other devices found in the starting equipment list|
-|Scavenger	|You may disassemble items to retrieve some of the resources used in their construction|
-|Reclamation Specialist	|You may disassemble items to retrieve the majority of the resources used in their construction|
+====== EQUIPMENT ======
-===== Advanced Intuition (Empathic) Skills =====
+[[Kitlist]]
-^Skill	^Effects^
-|Empathic Orientation	|You have a NX pool of 1|
-|Empathic Mindset	|You have a NX pool of 2|
-|Soothing	|You may use a neuroexternal invocation to call ‘SOOTHING’|
-|Courage	|You may use a neuroexternal invocation to call ‘COURAGE’|
-|Panacea	|You may use a neuroexternal invocation to call ‘PANACEA’|
-===== Advanced Intuition (Aggressive) Skills =====
+====== CHARACTER SHEET ======
+The character sheet is a Google Drive sheet.  The link below will take you to a short form you can use to register a character and create a sheet for you.  We suggest you use a Gmail email address, or at minimum an address that google recongises and let you log into Drive with.
+Immediately after you have submitted the form you will get an email from Draconas titled "New Pioneers Character Registered" with a link to your new character sheet.  Draconas is a player, but he created the sheet for people, he cannot view your sheet unless you share it with him.
-^Skill	^Effects^
+The first page of the sheet has instructions on how to fill it in, for both organic and NOI characters.
-|Aggressive Tendency	|You have a NX pool of 1|
-|Aggressive Disposition	|You have a NX pool of 2|
-|Pain	|You may use an invocation to call ‘PAIN’|
-|Fear	|You may use an invocation to call ‘FEAR’|
-|Agony	|You may use an invocation to call ‘AGONY’|
+Once you have filled in faction, player name and character name, there is a blue button in the top right, when you click that it renames the sheet to FACTION - PLAYER - CHARACTER please click that as it makes it much easier for the refs to find your sheet.
+Form Link:  https://forms.gle/RostiwSVFe4yoi579
+Some additional details can be found here:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/PioneeersLarp/posts/2550638465064304/  Any problems just post on the group and we will do our best to help you.