Player Characters

Player Characters (PCs or Heroes)
The other players in a game create heroes, the main characters of their own adventures, like an ongoing comic book or animated series. As a player, you create your hero following the guidelines in this wikia with the guidance of your Gamemaster. There are several components to creating a hero, outlined here.

=== Abilities===

All characters have certain basic abilities. These are Strength, Dexterity, Constitution,  Intelligence,  Wisdom,  and  Charisma. They  each  have  a numeric ability scoreaveraging 10 or 11 for a normally capable human being. Higher  ability  scores  grant bonuses while  lower  ability  scores impose penalties. As part of creating your hero, you decide how strong, smart,  and  tough  your  hero  is  by  choosing  the  appropriate  ability scores.

Skills
Skills represent training in a particular sort of task, everything from complex acrobatics to defusing bombs, programming computers, or piloting a plane. A skill acts as a bonus for actions involving those tasks. Someone trained in climbing can climb faster and with more confidence than someone who isn’t trained, for example. Skills are measured in ranks, reflecting how much training a character has in the skill. You choose the skills your hero knows and how well trained the hero is in them.

=== Feats===

Feat sare special abilities—talents or knacks. A feat allows your hero to do something other characters can’t normally do, or makes your hero better at doing certain things. They give the hero an advantage over others. You select your hero’s feats based on what you want your hero to be able to do.

=== Powers===

Powers are  special  abilities  beyond  those  of  ordinary  human  beings. They’re like feats, only more so. Whereas a feat might give your hero a minor special ability, powers grant truly superhuman abilities. You choose the powers you want your hero to have. This system presents a wide range of powers, along with power modifiersand power feats, allowing you to mix and match to create nearly any super-power you desire.

=== Drawbacks===

Finally, heroes often have challenges to overcome. They have drawbacks. Overcoming these drawbacks is part of what makes a real hero. Drawbacks range from physical disabilities to unusual weaknesses or vulnerabilities. You  choose your hero’s drawbacks,  allowing you to define the sorts of challenges your hero must overcome in the game.

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