The Generalist

Quote: What is the viability of a character build with legend 2, nine boons, and 1 epic attribute (intelligence)?

Depends on what you're doing with him or her, I guess. If you've got plenty of physically-inclined friends in your band to keep his unprepossessing and mortally fragile self in one piece, he might survive until he can pick up some more useful things, but he's probably going to be kind of boring to play. Since he has no physical or social attributes, he can't really do anything - being the brain is nice and all, but being literally useless most of the time is not very exciting for most players. Keep in mind, too, that he's going to be blowing all his Birthright points on just being able to have that many purviews he can use, so he's not going to get any fun functionality there, either.

What would be the origin of such a character - why would he be so talented in magic and so tragically normal (or even sub-par, depending on where you spend your points) at things mortals are normally able to do? Level 1 boons are often handy, especially if you're planning to pick up all the immunity boons, but they're not exactly giving you much to work with. They shouldn't, because level 1 is barely past mortal, but the build you're suggesting seems like it's struggling to do even that.

Of course, you can do whatever you want with a character - maybe being fragile and kind of useless is something you want to play on at low Hero and then flip on its head when he comes into his own later on in Hero and Demigod. But it may be frustrating for both you and your fellow players in the meantime, so don't go into it without knowing that.

I'd like to know why you'd want to work with such an improbable setup in the first place - what's the point of having all those boons at Legend 2? Are you just trying to give yourself all the immunities and passive buffs? I'd warn you that almost any Storyteller who sees you doing that will make sure to throw in something you don't have an immunity to at some point, and you're going to be completely out of luck without anything else to fall back on. More importantly, do you really want to set yourself up as the guy who does nine purviews? It's not sustainable in the long run - you'll inevitably have to stop buying some to focus on others, and you may end up feeling like those Birthright and XP points could have gone toward something you actually want to specialize in later. Not only that, but unless you buy some Epics at some point, you're not going to be very good at most of those purviews, which means you'll have to stop working on even more of them in order to have the stats to back up those you do want.

On the other hand, maybe you just want to experiment with different low-level boons in purviews to decide what you want your style to be, and there's nothing wrong with that. But don't come into it thinking that you'll be an instant master of those things and hailed as a multi-talented adept; more often than not, you probably won't be doing much of anything (though super-brains will, of course, be very helpful to the band, especially if nobody else has any).