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Old 08-09-2011, 07:09 AM   #8
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Default Re: Steampunk Character concept

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Originally Posted by GnomesofZurich View Post
The issue is that 'Wooster' has to have some specific competence, because I don't believe any of my players would enjoy playing a bumbling baffoon.
Being a wealthy aristocrat is Wooster's specific competence - It's probably easiest to grasp the relationship if you bear in mind that, in most games, Jeeves would be the PC and Wooster his incorrigible high-value Dependent.

That said, I played a pretty close homage to Wooster in our last parlor mystery game, and had a lot of fun with it. I had all the social skills and could casually speak to high-Status people who would've had some of the others flogged for the attempt, so my plot-moving contributions were significant even though my PC was essentially a rich, drunken, idiot man-child.
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