r/Awn

I'm just going back and looking over the character creation rules, and I've noticed that I've missed some stuff.

So, basically the process is this -

1. Roll 3d6 or pick your stats (if you roll, you can also change one to 14... does anyone actually do this? Seems kinda unfair, but it's not a bad thing.)
2. Pick/Roll your Background.
3. Take free Background Skill, then either pick 2 Learn Skills or roll 3 times on both the Growth and Learn lists. (On the example character creation on page 8 it says at the very end of the process you get another free Skill, but I'm not seeing this rule anywhere else?
4. Pick 2 Edges
5. Pick 1 Focus

My questions are thus - Do you choose to boost a low Attribute up to 14 if you roll? Also, where is the rule about this extra free Skill as mentioned in the example of character creation on page 8?

Cheers!

How do you all handle Trade?

I've got a character who is a merchant and looking to build wealth through wheeling & dealing, but I'm not finding any solid rules for Trading. "Buy low/Sell high" with a decent Trade Skill Check, that sort of thing.

I had been wanting to do some kind of weird west game for a while and my group is already familiar with SWN so when I found out that as usual Crawford already came up with a better version of something kicking around in my head, I decided I’ll just use the ADZ setting with my players as greenhorn Cowboy initiates at first.

Has anyone here run it?

Any advice or ideas I should steal?

I’ve been thinking about creating a faction sort of based on The Line from the Half Made World books where it’s a cult dedicated to running trains on the old railroad tracks and they basically all have AI psychosis from talking to a VI or expert system in the old Albuquerque train station.

Has anyone here tried using different classes for AWN?

If so, what’d you use and how’d it go?