07-29-2016, 01:43 PM | #1 |
Night Watchman
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cambridge, UK
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Designing a genius
In my Infinite Cabal campaign, there is a certain amount of theoretical physics research going on in the background.
This started when the Royal Society lodge of the Cabal that the PCs belong to had established fairly friendly relations with Infinity, but Infinity was unwilling to share their theories of how the universe actually works. So Isaac Newton decided to figure it out for himself, having a bunch of PCs to get him books from later dates in history. Newton was quite impressed by Einstein's work, especially after he learned of the solution of general relativity that implies a universe splitting in two, which has obvious relevance to trying to understand the Infinite Worlds. So an Einstein was recruited, and he and Newton have formulated something that can be described as "decanic general relativity", but the maths are just horrible, and they decided they needed to recruit a pure mathematician to help them. After some discussion, they had the PCs recruit an Emmy Noether, and she's working on it. I felt I wanted a character sheet for her, and I'm wondering if I've missed any advantages that are helpful for an academic genius. She has decent IQ, an appropriate Talent, Intuition, Single-Minded, and Versatile, plus Autohyponosis, high levels in Mathematics and Physics specialisations, and the basics of a few other sciences. Stacking the Attentive perk with Single-Minded seems like double-dipping, and I don't think Visualisation works for original work. What have I missed?
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07-29-2016, 01:47 PM | #3 |
Hero of Democracy
Join Date: Mar 2012
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Re: Designing a genius
Intuitive Mathematician or Lightning calculator might be appropriate
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07-29-2016, 01:52 PM | #4 |
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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Re: Designing a genius
Oh, and again, if going for the cinematic genius, you can probably add the Weird version (with enhancements) of 3D Spatial Sense to represent ability to intuitively understand the multidimensional space in which the infinite number of four-dimensional worlds exist.
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07-29-2016, 01:58 PM | #5 | |
Night Watchman
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cambridge, UK
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Re: Designing a genius
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07-29-2016, 03:05 PM | #6 |
Join Date: Nov 2008
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Re: Designing a genius
Serendipity, Aspected for that lucky bit of inspiration. Great when you have a lot of Research options available.
Luck, especially for Intuition and Mathematics roles.
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07-29-2016, 03:35 PM | #7 | |
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07-29-2016, 03:40 PM | #8 |
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Re: Designing a genius
Oh and it may not be worth it for a PC but Gadgeteering (Mathematics Modeling) would be a Cinematic option to counter invention penalties.
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07-29-2016, 03:40 PM | #9 |
Night Watchman
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Re: Designing a genius
The relevant parts are covered already (being a little coy because most of my players read this forum).
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07-29-2016, 05:22 PM | #10 | ||
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