Editing Diaspora (section)

== Campaign and Character Generation ==

The first session, players with the GM collaboratively create the campaign settings before generating characters.

Each player (including the GM) is assigned one or two systems to create.  Each system is connected to only a few others.  To generate a system, a player rolls [[Fudge dice|4dF]] to get a score from -4 to +4 for three stats: Environment, Resources, and Technology.  Then the player give the system three Aspects (which can be tagged for anything while in that system), a unique name, and a bit of story.

Then, player characters are created.  Each player describes five stages of their player's life: growing up (in one of the systems you designed), starting out (intended career), moment of crisis (something that changed the character, and included the character to your right), sidetracked (your version of the left-player's moment of crisis), and lastly where the character is now.  At each stage, give your character two Aspects appropriate to the events, and finally decide what skill ranks the character would have acquired in these adventures.