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Character Backgrounds
🕑 Added 2019-11-21 16:12:42 +0000 UTCOne of the first steps in generating your character for Memoirs of a Battle Brothel is choosing your background. Your background will determine the amount of starting funds you get, whether your character gets stat bonuses as a result of previous experiences, and even affinity with certain factions. Some backgrounds will also have unique dialogue choices or encounters.
- Spire noble
- A non-inheriting scion of a noble house has many options. Those who have an entrepreneurial mindset may set their sights on starting a new corp, investing wisely, or if they are especially reckless, purchase a Writ of Facilitation.
- Modifiers:
- Large starting funds
- Former courtesan
- Courtesans who have left the trade but not the Guild are welcomed back with open arms. Naturally charming and with years of experience in a Guild House, they make for skilled Facilitators.
- Modifiers:
- Medium starting funds
- Charisma bonus
- Faction affinity with Guild Progressives
- Faction affinity with Guild Traditionalists
- Grifter
- It’s con or be conned. Grifters are gifted liars who understand the true nature of MoonFall. While they might not be as skilled with a gun or blade, their silver tongue is the only weapon they rely on.
- Modifiers:
- Medium starting funds
- Charisma bonus
- Perception bonus
- Faction affinity with The Old Watch
- Street thug
- MoonFall is a dangerous place, and the streets can be hungry. Low-level gang enforcers are constantly vying for supremacy, and those with a way to upward mobility are eager to take it.
- Modifiers:
- Low starting funds
- Melee bonus
- Ranged bonus
- Athletics bonus
- Perception bonus
- Faction affinity with The Iron Cartel
- Cultist
- MoonFall is home to many underground sects and brotherhoods, including many shaper cults. Even those who are not shapers retain a degree of spiritual attunement beyond what you’d find elsewhere.
- Modifiers:
- Low starting funds
- Spirit Bonus
- Faction affinity with The Three Moons
- Corp floater
- Corporate floaters are freelancers that jump from corp to corp based on the contracts they acquire. Tech-savvy and resourceful, floaters prefer indirect methods in getting what they want.
- Modifiers:
- Medium starting funds
- Technology bonus
- Faction affinity with The Board
- Mercenary
- Mercenaries are the grizzled veterans of the various private military corporations that operate out of MoonFall. Trained and drilled to be killers, They are experts in the application of violence.
- Modifiers:
- Medium starting funds
- Melee bonus
- Ranged bonus
- Athletics bonus
- Faction affinity with Stormbreakers
- Nobody
- Some people are utterly without reputation or history.
- Modifiers:
- Very low starting funds
