User blog:GolgothaKinslayer/More towards the quickstart guidelines

One of our long-term goals is to make subsets of character creation that are faster. You've already seen the Paris characters, with the accompanying greatly reduced ruleset. The rest of the expeditious character types use the regular Midian guidelines. Debbie characters are simply pregens; pick one and go. Sarah characters are created without rolling. You pick from several large combinations of options. This is the biggest challenge to completing the quickstart characters. You will be able to use any component of the Sarahs for regular character creation; it'll be fully compatible. Kaylee characters are mostly done. They fall somewhere between Sarahs and Debbies. That is, the characters are mostly complete, but there are deliberately unfinished areas, such as a few unspent skills.

The following chart was intended for the Sarah character guidelines. Currently, it's a pretty rough list. It was compiled from the most commonly linked-to skill pages, and forms a rough approximation of the frequency that a character would have these skills. I haven't scrubbed it for skills that require two skills at character creation, and I might never do so. I am very much aware that frequency of links means that these skills (especially those lower on the list) means that they more frequently appear as part of classes and suites. This is still very much a work in progress.

To use, roll one of each type of die: 1D4, 1D6, 1D8, 1D10, 1D12, and 1D20. You gain the corresponding skill to that roll. If the same skill is rolled twice, increment that skill or reroll.

Literacy Intimidation‏‎ Hiding Melee Weapon (type)‏‎ Boasting Horsemanship: Basic Hunting‏‎ Brawling</li> Insults</li> Speak (language)</li> Travel Sense</li> Culture</li> Mathematics</li> Jumping</li> Ranged Weapon (type)</li> Dodge</li> Drawing</li> Tracking</li> Meditation‏‎</li> The Art of the Deal‏‎</li> </ol>