A Continent of Banalities

  Today I’m making another ARC Doom character, but this time around I have a character in mind. A character with amnesia(!) This means I’ll build rather than roll this one.  I’m considering the Approaches, and decide to put 0 in Creative, as this character is strongly tied to tradition. I put one in Careful, since I imagine the character’s got a cool head when performing his duties. The +2 goes in Concerted, since I imagine him being a rock of stability and work ethic. Next up is Blood & Guts. I reckon that our character isn’t particularly resistant to physical damage, even though he is a big lad. He’s pretty gutsy though. I put 2 in Blood and 4 in Guts, and with the 2D6 rolls I get 11 and 9 starting scores.  Now onto skills. Our guy is somewhat magical, so I am giving him 1 in Arcana. He’s knowledgeable about culture, but narrowly so. A 1 in Culture too. Our guy is well-liked, and has an aura of safety. That’s 2 in Charisma. He’s known to have insight into human beha...

A creature that is perfect for a cozy Christmas scenario... Children of the Black Sky  “At first you saw only a mass of coarse, matted black hair; presently it was seen that this covered a body of fearful thinness, almost a skeleton, but with the muscles standing out like wires. The hands were of a dusky pallor, covered, like the body, with long, coarse hairs, and hideously taloned. The eyes, touched in with a burning yellow, had intensely black pupils, and were fixed upon the throned King with a look of beast-like hate. Imagine one of the awful bird-catching spiders of South America translated into human form, and endowed with intelligence just less than human, and you will have some faint conception of the terror inspired by the appalling effigy.”   M.R. James – Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book    In one obscure text these creatures are referred to as children of the black sky, and details how they arrive on earth in a ball of fire that lights up the night sky. H...