Fort Cheyenne

Welcome to the Fort Cheyenne’s Character Creation Guide, a resource we’ve scraped and taped together in the interest of helping folks who want to become a part of our continuity. So first and foremost, thank you! We hope that this will help you refine the characters you’re reworking, or create a firm basis for those you’re pulling out of the creative ether.

We’ve opted to call this a ‘guide’ because we intend to direct you toward points of interest relevant to this timeline rather than ‘tell’ you how to go about designing a character entirely. Everyone has their own methodology around this subject, and this is totally something we understand. We do not want designs to fit a mold so much as we hope to have a certain maintained level of consistent originality and quality across all of the characters that engage heavily in our world.

That said, it should be reiterated that we will not ‘force’ anyone to comply with our storyline or genre at any point. This is a very public dream and we are excited just to have others share in all of our time and effort creating it. At any point, you may opt to include or remove yourself from the canon environment voluntarily, however, those who wish to take part in the main storyline, events, and/or any logged/tracked dream attributes (brawler stats, skillsets, etc) will be required to have a submitted and accepted application to the main dream RPR (you are here).

It is still encouraged that everyone, including players who just want to hang out or utilize the space for RP, join the FC Communications page to keep up with the haps outside of IC things (updates, games and contests, for instance) as this is where we’ll make the majority of announcements related to OOC things.

We’ll dive right into it since there’s plenty more to pick through for folks wanting to optimize their time in brain-child crafting in the interest of participation. Whatever the character origin, let’s do this thang!

This first part is pretty cut and dry, and essentially, the basis of character creation for Fort Cheyenne itself: fantastic bases and realistic controls. We want and actively seek and find amazing, dynamic, life-giving characters and the players that power them – with honest limits to give them the sense of realism that makes this world just believable enough to be fun. Because of this, we have set a series of pretty hard limits on a number of specialty categories, species, character archetypes, and ‘power’ sets. Below, you will find a pretty damn comprehensive list of those limits (subject to change/revision) and recommended controls for you to consider while undergoing this process.

First off, while there’s plenty to read for you loreophiles, we recommend that you review or in the least peruse the following pages to understand references made to dream-specific regions, groups and people:

Supernatural Beings

With your character’s faction alignment and base species in mind, it should be a little easier to begin fleshing them out, even if you haven’t worked out all of the physical details, so the next topic we want to poke is going to be attributes, skills, traits and influence . Why are these important? During our prepping period for the dream, we asked folks some questions about what sort of things gave them the best experiences IC, and a lot of our survey group told us that they wanted to see balance in characters, realism, and equal opportunities for the highest of the high to become the lowest of the low and vice versa. We heard y’all, and so, we’ll be introducing an RPG-esque trait and influence point system to help ‘regulate’ characters out of the gate. What you do from here is all a matter of playing your roles!

There will be no heavy monitoring of these point systems, and so we’ll be relying on an unlisted trait within the player - integrity - in keeping things fair and fun for everyone involved.


These are the ‘initial’ or starter tributes that make up your character at a very basic level. We call them ‘static’ simply because they won’t change very often, if at all, during the course of gameplay.

It’ll be simple - you pick out the influence or trait markers for your character from the provided list, and add or subtract the number of points associated with them from the starting base of 10.

These 10 points must be used for static traits alone, and cannot be applied elsewhere and while you don't have to use them all, you can't have extras. Keep in mind that some of what these traits and influence points offer can absolutely be established with normal in-game interaction (and is probably loads more fun that way)!

Flexible Attribute Points will be far more likely to be updated/altered in the course of normal RP or during events. These points are the ones that shift based on your character’s development, life changes and interactions quite regularly.

The rule for understanding how many of these you’re ‘allowed’ for your character has no minimum. These traits are expected to grow with your character, or change based on shifts in their story. However, the maximum will be set by your character’s age plus 50%. That means that no more than 150% of your character’s age should be in play at any given time with the exception of bonus/earned points. In the case of an uneven split for the 50%, you will round up to the nearest whole single digit.




These points will be shared between two categories: Physical/Mental attributes and Abilities and Skill attributes.