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[Ardent Debater]

You are a Hero, a wandering adventurer of great power. You have four Personal Stats, Martial, Vigor, Cunning, and Charm which display your personal might, and two stats, Wealth and Renown which display the legacy you'll leave behind, your "final score" if you will.

The Stats:

Martial: Your physical prowess; skill at arms, strength, and dexterity.
Vigor: Your overall resilience; resisting poison, wounds, and possession.
Cunning: Your mental prowess; cleverness, education, and sharpness of wit.
Charm: Your charisma; inspiring, convincing, and intimidating others.

Wealth: The treasure you've accumulated over the course of your adventures, it can be spent to acquire followers, equipment, and favors, or hoarded to improve your financial standing.
Renown: The notoriety, good or ill, you've acquired throughout your adventures, it waxes and wanes, eventually fading away, unless you've been immortalized in legend.

As Heroic as you are, you are mortal, and over time, old age will begin to claim you. At first, it is a mere number, a marker of how far you've come, but eventually your stats will decline, eventually culminating in death when you're Vigor reaches a negative number.

On your adventures, assuming you survive you're bound to come across items beyond the mundane and far superior to any other. These items and oftimes blessings are called Boons, and bolster your Personal Stats so long as they are equipped. Boons come in many forms, are incredibly rare, and almost always require an adventure or great sacrifice to obtain.

Over time, you will gather friends and hirelings, Companions and Followers respectively, and they will accompany you on your adventures. Companions have their own Personal Stats and will follow you to hell and back, Followers come in large numbers, don't have Personal Stats, are usually only loyal as long as they're paid, and will generally refuse to accompany you on particularly dangerous quests without some form of extra compensation.

The world is by and large in its Early Iron Age, and at least at first, can be considered equivalent to a Dwarf Fortress's world's Age of Myth. Fearsome monsters prey on civilized men, marauding barbarians ravage the edges of civilization, and countless ruins from a time before time beckon intrepid treasure seekers. It is an Age of Adventure, and as a determined Hero, the world is yours to take.

What is your Name? No Titles, not yet, those will come later.
Which of the four Personal Stats do you want to receive a bonus in?

Spoiler:  GM Note (click to show/hide)

I would like to give special thanks to Haspen, for creating and pioneering the SPAM genre, and to Robert E. Howard, for fueling the furnace of my inspiration.

[Maximum Spin]

My name is Yertle and I am particularly charming.

[Glass]

Your name is Sum Gai. Your parents were jerks like that.
You are known in your hometown for your Vigor.

[Puppyguard]

Your name is Sum Gai. Your parents were jerks like that.
You are known in your hometown for your Vigor.

+1
YES.

[RoseHeart]

Abraham Jackson
Vigor

A hero, needs to survive heroing.

[Prophet]

Mannir

Cunning

[Ardent Debater]

Your name is Sum Gai. Your parents were jerks like that.
You are known in your hometown for your Vigor.

+1
YES.

You are Sum Gai, a male peasant youth of 18 Summers well-known among the villagefolk for your ox-like Vigor. Ever since your mother died conceived you and your father perished after falling down the village well and hitting his head, you've wanted to leave your no-name village, and make a name for yourself as a Hero!

All Heroes start their journey somewhere, where will you begin?

A) You'll hunt down the bandit gang that's been harassing and robbing roadside travelers!
B) You'll find and slay the dire wolf that's been stalking and eating people in the night!
C) You'll go digging in the haunted crypt-ruin, put its spirits to rest, and unearth what there is to be found!

Spoiler:  Sum Gai (click to show/hide)

Martial 1
Vigor: 2
Cunning: 1
Charm: 1

Age: 18 Summers
Wealth: N/A
Renown: N/A

Boons: None, so far
Companions: None, so far
Followers: None, so far

[Puppyguard]

B
One foe is easier than many, maybe we could just shoot it in the leg?

[NRDL]

B, nothing like a lone beast to grind our skills on.

*Flashes back to DF adventure mode wrestle spamming*

[Ardent Debater]

You will hunt and slay the dire wolf! It's killed at least a dozen villagers, and as long as it stalks the night, there can be no peace!

1d10+1=!11! > 6
Cunning, +1

You hunt for the dire wolf in the deep woods and expect to waste weeks tracking it, but recalling where and when its victims disappeared, you do some mathematics and realize its lair must be within three leagues of your home village. From there, it takes you a mere two days to find it, and you feel brilliant for  figuring it out so quickly!

+1 Cunning

Before you lies a decrepit cave, and judging by the claw marks and chewed bones littering the stone, this must be the lair. And by the fact it's past noon and you haven't been mauled, it must be asleep.

How are you going to kill the dire wolf?

A) You'll charge in the cave, shout a challenge, and face it in single combat!
B) You'll sneak in the cave, find where it's sleeping, and kill it in its sleep!
C) You'll set a clever trap for it outside the mouth of the cave, then spring it when it least expects it!
D) You'll return home and recruit an angry mob to slay it, now that you know where it lays its head to rest!

Spoiler:  Sum Gai (click to show/hide)

Martial 1
Vigor: 2
Cunning: 2
Charm: 1

Age: 18 Summers
Wealth: N/A
Renown: N/A

Boons: None, so far
Companions: None, so far
Followers: None, so far

[Glass]

Thinking B, but C would also work.

[Pavellius]

C

[Prophet]

C

[Glass]

Also: Sum Gai, not Sum Gal.

[NRDL]

C