2022 Character Creation Challenge Day 14 - Canaid the Bard for Low Fantasy Gaming RPG

 Here we are, day 14 of the challenge, after struggling for time yesterday what with work commitments and time constraints, I thought I would steal a bit of time to create a character, its been a bit of a non productive day work wise anyway, got a delivery of firewood this morning then we had to drive into town for food supplies and to the post office to send out some orders.  Its now 2:30 in the afternoon and Friday and my desire to do any paid work is nil, I will make up some time tomorrow, in the mean time, #charactercreationchallenge.

I am still keen to run some games set in Roan Studios Bay of Spirits setting (link to Bay of Spirits material here) and the plan was to use Blood & Treasure as the rules set but after creating several characters using Blood & Treasure I came of the mind to create a high fantasy setting from scratch for these characters to adventure through.

That leaves me looking for a low fantasy game for use with Bay of Spirits, so I am thinking Low Fantasy Gaming RPG may well be the job, sound like it should.  I have downloaded the free PDF version from DrivethruRPG.com to try out and if it fits the bill I may splash out on the newest version, we will see how it goes.

The first character is a Bard, Canaid, which is a Welsh name meaning song or so I am told.

Name :  Canaid    Race :  Human    Class : Bard    Level :  1    Background :  Harper

Attributes    

Strength :  9 (0)   GS 4, TF 13
Dexterity :  15 (+2)   GS 8, TF 25
Constitution :  12 (0)   GS 6, TF 18
Intelligence :  12 (0)   GS 6, TF 18
Willpower :  15 (+2)   GS 8, TF 25
Perception :  14 (+1)   GS 7, TF 22
Charisma :  15 (+2)   GS 8, TF 25

AC :  13    HP :  8    Luck :  11    Reroll :  1

Attack Bonus :  0

Weapons : 
     Sword 1d8 damage (0 to hit)
    Dagger 1d6 damage (0 to hit)

Class Abilities :
    Inspire Greatness
    Silver Tougned

Skills 
    Acrobatics, Deception, Detection, Gather Information, Insight, Slight of Hand, Persuasion.

Equipment 

    Lute, Dagger, Sword., Light Armour +1 to AC

Treasure

    20gp

Backstory

Canaid grew up on her parent farmstead outside the village of Saddle Bight.  As she got older she would spend evenings in the village inn, listening to the tall tales being swapped between the patrons.  Soon Canaid learned to weave tales of her own and discovered she had a gift to be able turn those tales into ballads and songs.

It was one evening in the local inn that a troupe of wandering minstrels came by, led by a famous bard from the south, upon hearing Canaid sing he offered her a place with his band of roving minstrels, and whilst her parents were non to happy for their daughter to go off with such an unsavoury bunch of musicians, she got her way and took to the road.

Discovering she had a talent for playing music as well as a spellbinding voice, the great minstrel taught her to play the lute, she also taught herself to play the flute and harp and she proved to be not only talented but popular with everyone who came to hear her play, a great asset to the minstrels.

But being talented and popular breeds jealousy amongst others and several of the troupe became resentful of Canaid and her seeming to be the favourite of the great bard and leader of the minstrels.  Then, when one of the troupe had their musical instrument stolen, they pinned the blame on Canaid. Although vigorously protesting her innocence, Canaid was dismissed from the troupe.  

Finding herself alone in the Hinterland and with little money,  Canaid came into contact with and got talking to a small group of young adventures in  a wayside inn one evening,  that is when they all decided to band together and go off into the hinterland to explore and find adventure.