Record Obsession

Your Obsession is the thing that drives you. When you're not thinking about anything else, your mind drifts back to your obsession. Its what you bore people with at parties. Its how most of your weekends are spent. Its what makes you go.

Record Passions

Fear Passion:

Choose a Fear Passion and link it to a stress track on your madness meter: Violence, Helplessness, The Unnatural, Isolation, and Self. This is the thing that you fear the most. Record it in the appropriate place.

Examples: Fire [Helplessness], Foreigners [Isolation], Temptation [Self], Possession [The Unnatural], Dogs [Violence], Victimization [Violence].

Rage Passion:

Choose a Rage Passion and record it in the appropriate place. This is the thing that pisses you off the most.

Examples: Back Chat, Enemy Drivers, Laziness, Sleaze, Stuck-up Assholes, Those Fat Cats in Washington / London.

Noble Passion:

Choose a Noble Passion and record it in the appropriate place. This is the thing that brings the best out of you and makes you do noble things.

Examples: Entertainment, Historical Preservation, Land Mine Removal, One for All, Pedagogy, Protect the Elderly / Children.

Your Personality

Choose a word or a phrase that best describes your underlying personality. Examples are found on page 34-35 of Unknown Armies 2nd Edition. You could use a movie character, or a zodiac type or whatever - just a short handle.

Nuts and Bolts

Stats

Spend the points assigned among the following four statistics: Body, Speed, Mind, Soul. You get 220 points. The average ability for each of the four statistics is 50 points.

Skills

Skills are divided between the four main statistics. Each of the four statistics determine how many points you have available to spend among skills in that group on a one for one basis: if you have 65 points in Mind, you have 65 points to spend on skills within the Mind group. You are also given 15 bonus points to spend in any of the four Skill groups. There are also an upper ceiling to how high you can have your Skills at Character Generation - 55%

You also get some free skills in each of the four Skill Groups: Body: General Athletics [15%], Struggle [15%] Speed: Dodge [15%], Driving [15%], Initiative [Speed / 2] Mind: General Education [15%], Notice [15%], Conceal [15%] Soul: Charm [15%], Lying [15%]

Example / DIY Skills

Body: Distracting Physique, Hold Your Breath, Hold Your Liquor, Large And Hard To Move, Climbing, Boxing, Weight Lifting, Work Without Rest, Marathon Running, Football / Soccer, Basketball, Judo, Swimming, Enduring Torture.

Speed: Do Two Things At Once, Fast Draw, Snatch, Squirrelly Reflexes, Billiards, Ping Pong, Firearms, Darts, Sleight Of Hand, Pick Pockets, Moving Silently, Sprinting, Tennis, Juggling, Horseback Riding.

Mind: Authority, Doublethink, Hypnotherapy, Photographic Memory, Automotive Repair, Biology, Locksmithing, Medicine, Strategy, Physics, Psychotherapy, Occult.

Soul: A Friend In The Family, Aura Sight, Commanding Presence, Good Old What's His Name, Hunches, Play Dumb, Vocal Imitation, Sing The Blues, Persuasion, Acting, Getting Sympathy, Painting, Intimidation, Seduction, Cadging Drinks, Getting Bank Loans, Dancing, Social Worker.