The Old World: Grim and Perilous

If your character is a Human, you may now
choose two non-career skills as per species description.
Your character starts with one rank
in those two skills.
Table 1-3: Lores of Magic
Lore of Magic
Amber Wizard
Amethyst Wizard
Bright Wizard
Celestial Wizard
Gold Wizard
Grey Wizard
Jade Wizard
White Wizard
d100 result
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Step 4: Invest
Experience Points
During this step you may spend starting experience
to improve your character's characteristics,
purchase talents and increase ranks
in skills. Remember that unless stated otherwise,
your character cannot have any skills
higher than rank once character creation
is finished. General rules on how to spend
XP during this step are presented in the
Genesys Core Rulebook, page , however
The Old World: Grim and Perilous
adds one unique option - purchasing an
additional talent tree. At your GMs discretion,
you may spend XP to select one
specialization that reflects your character's
special training or background. Your character
may purchase talents from this specialization,
but they don't gain gear and
career skills and cannot advance their
profession in this specialization. If
at any point you decide to change
your character's specialization to
this specialization, apply the normal
rules of purchasing new specializations.
Ranald's Luck
If you think Ranald is on your side today, instead
of choosing a character's species or specialization,
you can roll d and compare the result with Tables
- or -. This will give you an extra XP if
you chose a character's species or specialization
this way, or XP if you chose both. However, you
must accept the result of the roll.
This XP cannot be spent on characteristics, only
skills and talents.
During this step you will determine your character's
wound threshold, strain threshold,
defense and soak by following the rules presented
in the Genesys Core Rulebook, page .
However, in The Old World: Grim and Perilous
there is also one additional attribute to
determine - corruption threshold. Corruption
threshold represents how quickly your character
succumbs to the influence of Chaos. Your
character’s starting corruption threshold is determined
by adding the corruption threshold
for their species to their Presence rating (after
spending starting XP).
Step 5: Determine
Derived Attributes
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