06-18-2018, 12:54 PM | #21 |
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Re: Rip/Criticize my character: Angela Copperfield.
454 points of skills and techniques is excessive unless she spent 60 years in training. In addition, she lacks the skills required for her level of Wealth. She only has Performance-15, which should only be enough to support a Comfortable income (David Copperfield probably has Perfomance-20 and I doubt that he is above Filthy Rich).
I would suggest stripping her down to 80 points in skills and techniques and focus on optimizing her further. By freeing up 350 points, you can get rid of 170 points in negative traits and increase her attributes by 180 points. With ST 14, DX 18, IQ 18, and HT 14, you would have a much more effective character, and you could buy another 20 points in advantages. I would also get rid of Doesn't Sleep because she would end up in a government research facility with that trait, being dissected to determine her secret. |
06-18-2018, 12:58 PM | #22 |
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Re: Rip/Criticize my character: Angela Copperfield.
You´re right, but I tried to represent her past deeds too. So maybe she pickpocketed that banker and nobody noticed today, but then some technician ran into an old recording that shows her up in the local casino, acting strangely with her sleeves... Anything like that?
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06-18-2018, 01:08 PM | #23 | ||
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Re: Rip/Criticize my character: Angela Copperfield.
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By the way, her talents do not improve Dexterity or Intelligence any further (those are stuck at 15), they just provide some minor special benefits like "+1/level to the first influence roll made against audience members after a succesful performance" or "+1/level to reaction rolls made by customers and critics". The learning curve work at an average of 2.5 CP/year, but it can be improved by details such as elite school education or advantages such as Accelerated Learning, Doesn´t Sleep or Single-Minded. Her specific learning capacity is 13.5 CP/year at this point (and the setting is based on current date, so today it´s 18/06/2018 and she is well over twenty five years old). Last edited by Alonsua; 06-18-2018 at 01:24 PM. |
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06-18-2018, 01:32 PM | #24 | |
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06-18-2018, 01:37 PM | #25 | |
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06-18-2018, 02:19 PM | #26 | |
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And there are all sorts of minority tastes. Do you also give players a limitation for "same sex only" or "opposite sex only"? Or for "same species only"? After all, there are people whose attractions are less narrow than that, either exclusively outside the limitation or simply disregarding it. You could easily end up with a chararacter who was attracted only to members of their own species, the opposite sex, aged 18 to 40, and not Fat or heavier—and claimed limitations for all of those—and yet who was potentially attracted to every person that an adventurer with their basic characteristics would be likely to be attracted to. I think this has to be treated more like Attractiveness, where the normal point value is for "attractive to your own species" and/or "attractive to the dominant species." That is, the typical version of the trait is already narrowed down. You can take Very Beautiful and not have to be concerned about being the focus of the attention of amorous tapirs or ravens or squid, or for that matter of heterosexuals of your own sex and species. That kind of narrowing down fits with most players' "common sense" narratives and avoids cluttering up character sheets with a lot of fussy details that most players will assume in any case.
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06-18-2018, 02:22 PM | #27 | |
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Except for those butterflies, of course. But I'm not even sure that invertebrates (other than cephalopods) could be trained in any meaningful sense.
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06-18-2018, 02:32 PM | #28 |
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Re: Rip/Criticize my character: Angela Copperfield.
I wouldn’t allow the character in any game I’ve ever run.
What are the other players supposed to do in a story about her? She might be a villain, but not a player character and certainly not a hero. |
06-18-2018, 02:41 PM | #29 | |
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Trained butterfly Training a butterfly Last edited by Alonsua; 06-18-2018 at 02:46 PM. |
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06-18-2018, 03:15 PM | #30 | |
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Some of the other player characters are also equally interesting, having a glutton master of martial arts based upon an otherwise realistic Goku, a very angry and violent teen actress, a young expert in cybersecurity that in turn is a dangerous hacker, an elite marksman ex-member of the rescue and special operations service who is obsessed with ancient civilizations based upon Lara Croft, a virtual reality game designer and developer of artificial intelligence based upon James Halliday from the recently released Ready Player One, a spoiled, megalomaniac and fanatic of the ants aristocrat bioengineer obsessed with purifying the planet through an orchestrated apocalypse that allows her to create a new world with an improved human species serving her as their goddess, etc. |
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