Character Generation (Action)

Heroic Action Role-Play

Player characters in Action are built using character's points. The point value gives an estimate of their overall competence. More points are earned during play, these are called experience points (xp). They are used in exactly the same way as character points. A character starting with 50 character points that earned 15 experience points is identical to one that began with 65 character points in game terms.

Maximum Value

The game has various limitations built into it to prevent characters from specializing too much. The most important one is the skill limitation that depends strictly on the total point value of the character. No Attribute or Skill can have a higher value than this limit. As experience points are earned, the skill limitation increases, allowing character even more heroic action.

In addition to this, there are attribute limits - normally a character can have an attribute ranging from 4 to 10, tough this can vary if the Race rules are used. There are also schticks that increase the maximum allowed attributes.

Points	Skill	Level of heroism
15	10
30	11	Nonheroic
45	12
60	13	Everyday heroes
75	14
90	15	Action heroes
105	16
120	17	Major Heroes
135	18
150	19	Legendary heroes
165	20
180	21	Godlings
195	22
210	23	Lesser gods
225	24
240	25	Greater gods
+15	+1

Point Costs

Most things in Action cost one point to bye, but some have special rules. Attributes are the obvious exception, at 4 points each.

Thing to purchase	Base Value	Cost
Attribute (Body, Mind, Reflexes)	7	4
Attribute (Move)	5	4
Skill	8	1
Attribute Schtick	0	1
Neutral Schtick	0	1
Skill Schtick	0	1
Race Schtick	0	1
Form (Including the Cantrip)	0	1
Power	0	1