Creating a new character

The rules are pretty simple:

I want to run a game that feels basically like a feudal/post-feudal deal. That means mostly knights with armor, a few priests with armor and some wizards and thieves to round it out. I want it to feel like every D&D game did ten years ago.

You figure out which kits don't apply, you pick an appropriate god with appropriate granted abilities, you make a character who fits the general idea and on we go. I'm not going to restrict anyone or anything in advance. The world is going to be what it is though, so if you're chaotic-evil anti-paladin lord tries to join the chaotic good party and they kill him, tough. If you decide that you should be a crazed worshipper of some screwed-up god who requires human sacrifice or other bizarre rituals, when you get caught you'll be stoned, beaten, ostracized, or just outright murdered.

In order to enforce all this, I'm not going to bother with the "PC Shield" when awarding experience. That means if your character is a righteous priest of the god of Law and Truth and you use healing on my anti-paladin, you lose experience. If your goal says you want to be a pillar of the community and you hang around with scumbags and politicians, then you lose experience.

You can use either the Skills & Powers/Spells & Magic or the Complete whatever books, I don't care which, as long as you follow the rules where you can and break them in reasonable ways when you can't. Combat and Tactics stuff is always avaiable unless it conflicts with something else. Aurora's catalogue is mostly okay, use your head.

A new rule now that the game has started: look and see what characters are already in play and if you think you and one of the other players will be fighting to do the same things, then pick a new character.

If, when you're all done, your character seems like he'd fit into Renaissance France, tear it up and try again. I'm looking for Arthur and his knights, the time of the crusades and all that.

One more thing: if you can't possibly get along with one of the other characters, plan on it ending badly for one of you. Without the PC shield, I think you'll find that one or the other of you will either quit or kill someone