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A high concept is your character distilled down to five words or less. This is where you lay out your character's core pieces. Tell us what your character is about--what they do, who they are--and how they differ from others of their character type. How is your character going to be played? What sorts of stories will you tell? How do they fit into the world of Ashdown? This section is for broad strokes. You can go into more detail later!

Your character's trouble is their main plot going into the story. "Deal with their new powers" is not really a good trouble because everyone shares it, but "I have a problem because of xyz thing that I am/do" works a lot better. So "I accidentally light things on fire" IS a trouble, but a better example would be "Because I light things on fire, I have a standing warrant for my arrest with the Ashdown police department." They can be internal, stemming from internal turmoil or aspects of their identity, or external, stepping from an outside cause. It could be personal demons, family reputation, obstacles in the path of their personal goals…

While your trouble exists to complicate your character's story and give you fodder for plot conflict moving forward, it shouldn't take over everything your character does. There is definitely space for characters like Uchiha Sasuke, but that's not a character that will be easily knit into the storyline. Consider how you're going to interact with other players and characters as you write your Trouble, and it will pay off as soon as you get into the game.

We ask you to include this so that we can easily create threads linking your characters into the game's plot. Ashdown will have common prompts offering story hooks, rewards, or powers that would otherwise be unavailable.

What is your character's innate power? This is something small that carries through into your character's waking/real life, so it shouldn't be anything like CAN START FIRES WITH HIS MIND, or CAN SPEAK TO ALL ANIMALS. Think more 'can speak to cats' or 'is fireproof'.

Is there anything else you think we should know? This is where you put history and personality details that don't fit in the expansion of your high concept, relationships (for good or ill) your character has with others, etc. This is also where information like their age, the location of their main stomping grounds, etc. goes. Just because this is an "other" section doesn't mean it won't have stuff in it! Consider it the free-form section.