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Character Creation

Legends of Today characters are powerful, proactive forces in the world. They understand the world is more than the mundane. For some characters, this might just be a feeling that motivates them to explore the world, but for others, they themselves are magical, powerful beings that cannot be restrained by the mundane world.

Legends of Today is an Open Legend RPG setting.This means that while a character's may define them as a person, their experience, their capabilities; it does not affect the statistics that they can be assigned. For Legends of Today, play the character that you want to play.

When you form your character concept, if you don't have a particular magical concept (mage, seeker, dragon, shapeshifter) that you want to explore, you can allocate points to the 'normal' (i.e. not Extraordinary) attributes and develop your magical abilities over time. Maybe you'll decide that the reason that your character is so fast or strong is because of some magical lineage that activates slowly.

There's always an opportunity for future character development! In Open Legend, characters gain feat and attribute points every level, so you could always add magical powers at future levels.

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