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"How hard can it be to create a thematic RPG character sheet for my own system?"
weeell... I'm not spending another 6 hours to translate the sheet to english.

So, what is this? Whenever I decid to start a new story (here or otherwise) I first make character sheets for the protagonists ans main "NPCs", it helps me keep things coerent, both reminding me of what the character can and would do, as well as what it wouldn't or can't do. This time I wanted to start a heavy fantasy scenario, and decided to create my own system for it (I dislike D20 magic system), so I started creating the system, what took me around 8 days, and then create the character sheet, what took me another day. So, I was going to publish the first chapter this month, but as you might have figured, 9 days in the time-lapse I might publish, and all I came up with was the character sheet, with much to be changed and defined yet (I took some inspiration from Blood & Honor on the character sheet, which I intend to change later on). Tomorrow, well, actually today (just passed midnight here) I will refine the system so I can create the characters for the story.

If anyone is interested in translating it, most of the sheet is in Brazilian Portuguese, the diagram's border is is Latim and those 3 words around the inner circle are variations for Mage, someone who studies magic and reproduce it trough formulas, recipes, diagrams etc; Medium, someone capable of comunicating with the supern beens that pour magic on the world, from all 5 realms, though not capable of magic by themselves, they can request said extra-dimensional creatures to manipulate reality for them; Witch (in portuguese bruxo/bruxa [male/female]), someone born with Inner Magic, the powers of this rare fellows are their own, not the result of years of study, nor the response of another being to one's pledges and pacts, but something as natural as breathing, as phisical as using one's arms.

If you download it (why would you? I didn't even uploaded the system's rules :p) please favorite the image.

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unfornutely this will be it for this month, I look foward to returning soon to this story though.
speaking on returning, I will try to limit my online writings to this 3 storylines, Spacial Forces, Tales of the Totering Hound, and Arcanus (this one), since the university I go to finnaly came to an agreement with the government and classes are resuming 30/11/2015 (DD/MM/YYYY), so next month I will be returning to one of the other 2 storylines.

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made on Gimp2
Font is Elementary Gothic (you can download it here)
Background is Old Scroll Texture III by Esther-Sanz
Scroll Banners come from Scroll Banners Corners and Scroll Banner set 1 both from Lileya
all aditional feature and arengement of pieces was made by me (and I can't grasp how long it would have took me if I chose to made everything by myself)

Inspirations: Blood & Honor, Heroes of Might & Magic (5;6;7), ancienty nordic runes, european medieval magic, japanese sengoku magic, probably a whole lot of cartoons/animes/comic books/mangas/books/rpgs/games I've come in contact with trough my life but don't remember. but definitely not Tolkien, I don't like LotR's magic system.

about use/distribution/whatever: well, it wasn't intended to be uploaded, I was just going to use it as a guide for the my story's characters, but if you want to use it, distribute or make any other use of it on the internet... well, okay, just notify and link me. I'm setting it not to allow comercial use, cause you will probably run into problems with Blood & Honor copyrights on this basic sheet if the owners decide to force it (if you make enough money out of it to be worth their time)

presumed questions:
01-will you publish the updated sheet after you finish it? Only If I ran out of time to publish an actual chapter again (unlikely) or if people request it.
02-will you publish the system to use this sheet? I would rather go on with the story than make it a playable system, but if people request, I might write it down and make it something usable that do not inflicts any copyrights.
03-will you publish 2 chapters next month to make up for not publishing a story chapter this month? unlikely, as my classes are going to resume I will have less time to write. If I get any extra time however I will work into making up for this month.
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