How to make and play a character

• Mantles
  • The mantle you select for your character encompasses their character type, general role in the game, and place in the supernatural or mortal world.
• Stunts
  • A stunt reflects specialized training, supernatural gifts, exotic equipment, access to special resources, or anything else granting a unique perk in a particular situation.
• Approaches
  • Flair: An action that draws attention to you, replete with style and panache.
  • Focus: Time-consuming action in which close attention is paid to detail so the task is properly executed on the first attempt.
  • Force: A display of brute strength rather than subtlety.
  • Guile: An effort focusing on misdirection, stealth, or deceit.
  • Haste: A dexterous movement with alacrity.
  • Intellect: Quick thinking, the solving of complex problems, or accounting for numerous variables at once.
• Aspects
  • An aspect is a word, phrase, or sentence that highlights something fundamental to your character’s portrayal. Your character is at a minimum going to have three aspects
    • A high concept: one phrase or sentence that communicates their distilled essence.
    • Troubled: a phrase or sentence describing a source of internal or external conflict: a personal weakness, recurring enemy, or important obligation, anything that complicates their existence.
    • Third aspect: anything that can further explain your character.
• Refresh and fate points
  • Your refresh determines your minimum number of fate points received at the start of each game session.
  • you can spend one refresh per additional stunt you buy at creation and milestones

• Conditions
  • A condition represents and initiates special rules following certain events during the game.
    • Fleeting: You recover from the condition during a prolonged respite from the action, at the end of the scene, or at some other similarly trivial point.
    • Sticky: Concrete action must be taken to recover the condition and role play or downtime actions is typically mandated.
    • Lasting: Same as a sticky condition but time must pass (usually an entire session), or you must also fulfill a secondary objective, to completely recover.

• Damage System
  • Stress represents your character suffering fatigue or annoyance, taking a superficial wound, or otherwise feeling the strain of their exertions. you get 6 boxes of stress.
  • In Peril (sticky): Negate up to four shifts of damage from the attack. must take some kind of action to resolve
  • Doomed (lasting): negate up to 6 shift of damage from an attack. must take some kind of action to resolve and let time pass for healing

References

1. "Dresden Files Accelerated". 12 February 2017.