My First T&T Character

[oldtoby]

In preparation for my first solo, heck my first anything with regard to T&T, I'm going to create my first character EVER!  I'm using dT&T this time around since I have a physical copy of the ruleset at hand.  If anything is off or if I missed anything, feel free to chime in and correct/remind me.  And we're off!

My initial roles, 3d6 for each. 9 10 14 10 12 12 13 15* Yes! I rolled three 5's.  Good rolls and an unexpected TARO though that means being a specialist and more rules to read up on. I suppose I shouldn't look up the mouth of a gift horse, eh?

I want to play a Warrior, something easier to play before grappling a wizard and his spells. So I'm going to rearrange the stats to suit.

STR: 15 CON: 12 DEX: 14 SPD: 12


IQ: 10 WIZ: 9 LK: 13 CHR: 10

So, the TARO roll for Strength is a 7 total, thereby bumping STR to 22.  Dang.

I love playing dwarves and it is usually my default race to play.  Jumping ahead in the book, I see there are two sub-races of dwarves among the Kindred.  I chose the Midgard as I'd rather leave my Luck as is.  Charisma, i'm all meh. Here are my stats after race modifiers for a Midgard dwarf...

STR: 44 CON: 24 DEX: 14 SPD: 12


IQ: 10 WIZ: 9 LK: 13 CHR: 8

WTF? 44 Strength? Is this wack?

For height I rolled a 14 (74") and I chose 220 for the dwarf's weight, modified to dwarf stats of 50" (4'2") and 150 lbs.

Weight Possible: 4400. Uuuuuh...thats roughly 2 metric tons. Ok.
Weight Carried: TBD

Gold:13x10=130 gp

So let's get this done.  Introducing...

Loin, son of Groin
Type: Warrior (Specialist)                Level: 1            Gender: Male
Kindred: Dwarf, Midgard                  Height: 4'2"
Weight: 150 lbs                              Hair: Red

STR: 44 CON: 24 DEX: 14 SPD: 12


IQ: 10 WIZ: 9 LK: 13 CHR: 8

Combat Adds: +35        Adventure Points: 

WT Poss: 4400        WT Carried: TBD

Gold: 130

Equipment:
TBD

Going to look up the specialist section while reviewing equipment to buy.

[mahrundl]

TARO plus kindred multipliers can make for a very powerful character, yes.

One minor item: Weight possible is 4400 weight units, which is 440 pounds. Still very impressive, but not insanely high. Everything else looks good to me.

[zanshin]

That's a strong first character. Should handle Buffalo Castle providing you don't fail the wrong save. Have fun!

[oldtoby]

I'm thinking I will run Loin in my first solo without the benefit of having that one TARO, defaulting back to his fifteen which becomes 30 due to the racial modifier. I'll run him this way first and then go back to the TARO score and run him again, just to see the difference.

Btw, when doing solos how do you handle equipment? Do you go by what you roll for gold? Or do you give your character whatever one wants (within reason or full on no limits)?

[nebless]

When I do a character for the very first time I keep within my gold and carry limits. Just seems to make it for fair the first time around.

[zanshin]

Apr 13, 2020 21:15:43 GMT -5 nebless said:

When I do a character for the very first time I keep within my gold and carry limits. Just seems to make it for fair the first time around.

There have to be rules to control the fun!

[Karl]

I also break the rules on a solo all the time. Frankly I'm not sure I ever finished one without playing it like a role playing game. See as it is solo adventures are not really role playing. Like a computer game you only can ever try to do what the writer thinks you will do.

In the middle of a adventure and want to take a door off its hinges and use it to cross a pit? Sorry, that isn't a choice here. Unless you make it one. When I am playing a solo, I do. I figure out what would be fair to roll to see if it works and move on. Tons of times I die anyway. That door i'm lugging around sure didn't come in handy when suddenly I had to leap to the side without warning. SR at a negative and sure as anything..I was dead.


Just be fair about it, or don't. It's your time and money spent on this fun. Do Whatever you want. For myself I only let it go but so far before the Troll in me starts imagining all kinds of horrible ways it can go wrong.

[ProfGremlin]

Hey, @oldtoby,

I remembered I had a couple of threads bookmarked related to playing solos. You might find them to be of some use:

Solitaire Dungeon Protocols
How to survive a solo

Slightly less on topic:
making that saving roll
How do you play?

Once you have the idea of playing solos down, you'll want to branch out and tweak things. There are some good ideas in here. I still think my favorite is permanently burning a point of Luck to go back to the paragraph previous to my delver's death and make a different decision.

As long as you're having fun, you're doing it right!

~ Prof.