08-14-2018, 11:27 PM | #21 |
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Re: Children - Appropriate Traits?
Fair enough.
Just fold the ability to learn languages more quickly, but not at a higher level per character point invested, into the limited version of Fast Learner. Optionally, give kids a Feature or Perk that they speak any language they learn with a Native accent, even if their fluency is less than Native level. Edit: Not that it's particularly germane to the topic of children as characters, but I have a house rule, roughly based on GURPS 3E China's rules, that you can buy additional "Scholarly" levels in a language at +2 points per level. Each level boosts your effective IQ for any task involving obscure uses of a given language, such as recalling seldom-used words or ideographs and purely language-based tasks like correctly spelling words, and playing word games like Scrabble or crosswords. It could be a Perk, particularly if each level only helps written or spoken fluency, but not both. Last edited by Pursuivant; 08-14-2018 at 11:53 PM. |
08-15-2018, 11:00 AM | #22 | |
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Usually cats break it out when they want something really bad - our current cat reserves it for important things like "I'm stuck in the closet help help help" thankfully, but I've owned cats that used it for "I want a treat".
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08-15-2018, 11:56 AM | #23 |
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Re: Children - Appropriate Traits?
Each of our four cats has had quite distinct vocalizations.
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08-15-2018, 05:40 PM | #24 | |
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08-15-2018, 05:49 PM | #25 |
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Re: Children - Appropriate Traits?
Our two littermate cats had very distinctive meows.
Shia, born a grumpy old man had a very demanding call. His brother, Timmay, naturally has a plaintive kitten sounding meow. As one would expect, Timmay's call was more effective. Also as one would expect, Shia eventually adjusted his meows to sound more like Timmay's. Shia still reverts occasionally to demanding, so it seems to take effort and/or concentration to meow like Timmay.
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08-15-2018, 06:16 PM | #26 | |
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I realized just what a great trick a crying baby has a few years ago when I could clearly hear and distinguish a crying baby over low crowd/ambient environmental noise at a quarter mile distance. Very few other things in nature sound like a crying baby, and it instinctively gets our attention: https://www.theguardian.com/science/...es-hard-ignore |
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08-15-2018, 06:26 PM | #27 |
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Re: Children - Appropriate Traits?
Cats can also be naturally noisy. We had one that would go into the bathroom and "b*tch". He didn't want human attention, just echoing angry meows.
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08-15-2018, 10:37 PM | #28 |
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Re: Children - Appropriate Traits?
Cougars will often learn to mimic the sound of human babies in order to lure hunters away from any kills or away from their territory. On occasion, they will even use the sound to lure hunters into dangerous areas and survivors will often say that the last thing they heard before being knocked off a cliff or into a river was the sound of a baby crying (or so they say...).
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08-16-2018, 03:58 AM | #29 | |
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08-16-2018, 07:05 AM | #30 | |
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We have these turbo-jet-looking floor fans in our house every summer. And every summer our cat spends some time sitting right in front and yelling into them, like a kid yelling into a fan to hear it "chop up" their voice. At all hours of the day and night. We turn off the fans, cat magically loses interest in them. This is also a cat that likes the hair dryer and will grab at it to point it at various parts of her tummy, so clearly she's not put off by motor noise. She may be slightly deaf - it would explain why she's generally less skittish than the average cat.
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