Pedantic character templates

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by tbone

Now that's pretty funny. "Ha! Your bullets are no match for my muscles of stee.. Hey, watch it, buddy! You could hurt a guy throwing those things!"

The civilians laughed at the mad villain when he displayed his gun firing gun. But the superheroes were noticeably not laughing.

[(E)]

Originally Posted by Phil Masters

Umm, actually...

That was probably their enemies' propaganda. Extreme Fanaticism (Nizari Isma'ilis) would probably fit better. Duty (The Sect) is generally required, and Secret (Nizari Infiltrator) is another strong possibility, though not of course universal.

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That propaganda angle was what I was referring too (though I may still be incorrect), I was working from the assasins/cult members being called hashishans, as in users of hashish. Which as I understood things was the derogatory term for the sect. My alternate build was
Assasin
Fanatacism
Duty
Quirk, trys to not harm innocents

Speaking of alternate builds
Scout [-1]
Quirk/temporary duty, return with information [-1]

[Dalillama]

Swashbuckler
Sword (any 1 handed)
Shield
OPH: swaggering bravo

[Phil Masters]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

The civilians laughed at the mad villain when he displayed his gun firing gun. But the superheroes were noticeably not laughing.

Now I check, it turns out the ducking only happened once. (George Reeves was determinedly professional and took the hits; one stuntman reacted on reflex.) But it did happen, and do has become a bit of an urban legend. See https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V3DnAgyQoAk

Originally Posted by (E)

That propaganda angle was what I was referring too (though I may still be incorrect), I was working from the assasins/cult members being called hashishans, as in users of hashish. Which as I understood things was the derogatory term for the sect. My alternate build was
Assasin
Fanatacism
Duty
Quirk, trys to not harm innocents

Not sure where the quirk comes from; those guys were basically terrorist suicide bombers before bombs were invented. They focused on the assigned target because they generally only got the one chance, but they wouldn’t have worried too much about anyone else.

And yeah, as I understand it, “hashishim” seems to have been a general term of contempt at the time. (Think “junkie” or “dope fiend”.) There would have been an undertone of “those guys are crazy, they must be on drugs”, and Marco Polo compounded the problem with his stories about secret gardens in the indoctrination process, but all of that kind of misses the point about suicidal fanatic cultists.

[Astromancer]

Originally Posted by tbone

Oops, I missed Ravenfish's thief entry above. It's more useful than my decidedly minimalist version!

Okay, one more really lazy entry from me:

Bard
See William Shakespeare, GURPS Who's Who 1.

That's only good for the valley of the river Avon.

[Astromancer]

By the way, historical Necromancers merely summoned the dead to learn about the past, present, and future from them.

[evileeyore]

Neck Romancer

[-1] Loves necks.

[Astromancer]

Originally Posted by evileeyore

Neck Romancer

[-1] Loves necks.

Punishment is not pedantry!

[Maz]

Catgirl
ST 4; DX 14; IQ 4; HT 10.
Will 11; Per 12; Speed 6; Dodge 10;
Move 10.
SM -3; 10 lbs.

Traits: Catfall; Combat Reflexes;
Domestic Animal; Night Vision 5;
Quadruped; Sharp Claws; Sharp
Teeth. Female

Skills: Brawling-16; Jumping-14;
Stealth-14.

[tbone]

Making a foray into monster territory:

Skeleton
ST 0 DX 0 IQ 0 HT 0
Sessile
Dead Broke
Blindness
(... continue semi-humorous enumeration of inanimate object traits)