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Build guide

The rebel (Freeform / Custom)

Someone who cannot leave a wrong thing standing, whatever it costs them. Built to push a story forward when everyone else would wait.

The starting sheet

Every number this build starts with. Take it as your own and change anything, nothing here is locked.

Character identity

Concept
Someone who refuses the way things are and pays for it constantly.

Personality

Personality
Direct, principled, and allergic to authority. Warmer in private than anyone expects.
Strengths
Conviction, nerve, and an instinct for who is lying.
Weaknesses
Picks fights that cannot be won. Trusts slowly.

Goals & motivations

Motivations
To break the thing that hurt people like them.
Fears
Becoming what they set out to tear down.

Recommended choices

Archetype
The rebel
System
Freeform, no stats, no dice required
What to fill in first
Concept, personality, and one concrete goal

Priorities

  • Name the specific institution that hurt them. Vagueness kills this archetype.
  • Decide what they would actually accept as a win.
  • Give them one person they will compromise for.

Play tips

  • Refusing every plan is not a personality. Refuse the ones that matter.
  • The best rebel scenes are the ones where they are right and it still goes badly.
  • Watch for the turn where they start using the tools they hated.

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