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.