06-14-2011, 02:51 PM | #11 |
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Re: Ways of expressing the 'Nerds Are Sexy' trope using GURPS Traits
I'd treat it as a Talent, probably a more limited version of "Smooth Operator" focused on skills used to pick up chicks.
Another possibility is an Aspected version of Empathy: Members of the Opposite Sex Only And I agree that "Pitiable" is probably in there as well. |
06-14-2011, 04:37 PM | #12 |
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Re: Ways of expressing the 'Nerds Are Sexy' trope using GURPS Traits
Maybe a perk wich allowes you to use IQ as basic for sexapeal instead of HT ...
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06-14-2011, 06:39 PM | #13 |
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Re: Ways of expressing the 'Nerds Are Sexy' trope using GURPS Traits
Charisma with the limitation "works only on geeks." Say... -40%?
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06-14-2011, 07:36 PM | #14 | |
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Re: Ways of expressing the 'Nerds Are Sexy' trope using GURPS Traits
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06-14-2011, 10:10 PM | #15 |
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Re: Ways of expressing the 'Nerds Are Sexy' trope using GURPS Traits
I'm going with Novembermike's point here. From what I see at Linux and Fandom conventions, it's not an overly photogenic lot, and there are more socially disfunctional people in the Geek subculture than in the population at large. Not that there aren't very attractive people within the subculture. But even a person considered of only average to slightly more attractive than average in the general population can be the belle of the ball in the geek world.
My physics degree, gaming and fiction choices put me firmly in the Geek category. I can tell you that none of those things have ever gotten me laid. Knowing how to make the lady the center of my attention and opportunistic application of liquor have been much more useful than my physics degree (also, flowers don't hurt).
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Re: Ways of expressing the 'Nerds Are Sexy' trope using GURPS Traits
Well, maybe. IMO relationships based on pity and those based on sexiness are different categories (both likely to have different problems compared to harmonic relationships, of course).
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