Starting Character Level: 1st
Ability Score Generation: 20-point buy; even after racial adjustments, I don't want to see a final score lower than 8 or higher than 18
Classes: any spherecaster (SoP), practicioner (SoM), or champion (CotS) class, or a Paizo class (but must use an archetype from the Spheres system)
Races: Core only (alternate traits, etc. can be from other sources)
Skills: we'll use Background Skills (that's an additional 2 skill points at every character level, which must be spent on background skills)
Traits: standard 2 traits from different categories, + 1 campaign trait in addition to those
Hit Points: max at 1st level; later levels will be 1/2 your Hit Die +1 (as is done in Pathfinder Society)
Bonus Talents: beyond whatever talents are granted by your class, tradition (for practitioners/champions), and/or gaining the casting class feature the first time (for spherecasters/champions), you also gain 2 additional talents; each talent can be either a combat talent or a magic talent, as long as you have access to that type of talent already (no picking magic talents if you're a practitioner, nor picking combat talents if you're a spherecaster)