By way of example any actual PC looks something like this. Well make a sorcerer, Mariad the Magnificent, the goal here being to make a badass Solar wizard and then play around with whatever we have left over.
Phys 3/5/3 8bp
Soci 2/2/1
Ment 3/5/3
Abilities
5 occult (sorcery) 2bp
5 lore (first age lore) 2bp
3 medicine
5 melee (swords) 2bp
5 awareness 2bp
3 resistance
3 athletics
5 integrity (demons) 2bp
2 linguistics
2 dodge
Merits
3 Manse
3 Familiar
3 artifact
1 language
Charms
Terrestrial circle sorcery (invulnerable skin of bronze)
Storm wind rider
Death of Obsidian Butterflies
Summon Demon first circle
Infallible Messenger
Ox body x 2
Wound Mending Care Technique
Excellent Strike
Fire and Stones Strike
Dipping Swallow Defense
Spirit Detecting Glance
All Encompassing Sorcerer Sight
Ancient Tongue Understanding
Supernal Control Method
Quick Stats
Sword 13+10 (12 damage)
Daiklave 14+10 (15/5 damage)
Parry 7+5
Dodge 4+3
Join Battle 8+8 +1 against ambushes
Soak 13 (light armour and skin of bronze)
Guile 2
Resolve 4+4 (+1 against demons)
That’s assuredly a sorcerer, 5 in lore, occult, an expert healer on top of that, five spells and four occult charms right off the bat. He’s also got more dice to awareness than a great cat has to stealth, without even using an excellency, he’s got combat stats that let him utterly dominate most printed opponents, again without even spending Essence for most of them. Is he really suffering in his sorcery for that?
This isn’t like a DnD Eldrich Knight where he’s really a fighter, but he’s got some wizardly tricks to throw into the bag, this guy is straight up a sorcerer, he just tacked on that invincible fighter bit with the leftovers. This is also a base level chargen guy too, by the time he reaches Essence 2 he’ll have doubled his number of spells known and maybe picked up another combat charm or two in addition to some more occult ones. Then you take this guy and swap the sorcery and occult for presence and social stuff, that’s your face, swap it for larceny, athletics and stealth, that’s your sneak thief, and then go totally nuts with the Dawn and just make them able to solo most group encounters anyway.
Phys 3/5/3 8bp
Soci 2/2/1
Ment 3/5/3
Abilities
5 occult (sorcery) 2bp
5 lore (first age lore) 2bp
3 medicine
5 melee (swords) 2bp
5 awareness 2bp
3 resistance
3 athletics
5 integrity (demons) 2bp
2 linguistics
2 dodge
Merits
3 Manse
3 Familiar
3 artifact
1 language
Charms
Terrestrial circle sorcery (invulnerable skin of bronze)
Storm wind rider
Death of Obsidian Butterflies
Summon Demon first circle
Infallible Messenger
Ox body x 2
Wound Mending Care Technique
Excellent Strike
Fire and Stones Strike
Dipping Swallow Defense
Spirit Detecting Glance
All Encompassing Sorcerer Sight
Ancient Tongue Understanding
Supernal Control Method
Quick Stats
Sword 13+10 (12 damage)
Daiklave 14+10 (15/5 damage)
Parry 7+5
Dodge 4+3
Join Battle 8+8 +1 against ambushes
Soak 13 (light armour and skin of bronze)
Guile 2
Resolve 4+4 (+1 against demons)
That’s assuredly a sorcerer, 5 in lore, occult, an expert healer on top of that, five spells and four occult charms right off the bat. He’s also got more dice to awareness than a great cat has to stealth, without even using an excellency, he’s got combat stats that let him utterly dominate most printed opponents, again without even spending Essence for most of them. Is he really suffering in his sorcery for that?
This isn’t like a DnD Eldrich Knight where he’s really a fighter, but he’s got some wizardly tricks to throw into the bag, this guy is straight up a sorcerer, he just tacked on that invincible fighter bit with the leftovers. This is also a base level chargen guy too, by the time he reaches Essence 2 he’ll have doubled his number of spells known and maybe picked up another combat charm or two in addition to some more occult ones. Then you take this guy and swap the sorcery and occult for presence and social stuff, that’s your face, swap it for larceny, athletics and stealth, that’s your sneak thief, and then go totally nuts with the Dawn and just make them able to solo most group encounters anyway.
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