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Old 12-28-2018, 12:27 PM   #31
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Frederick Douglass is an excellent character, a brilliant speaker and both flexible and innovative enough to be a great asset to Infinity.
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Old 12-28-2018, 02:21 PM   #32
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Frederick Douglass is an excellent character, a brilliant speaker and both flexible and innovative enough to be a great asset to Infinity.
True, and even as an old man surprisingly strong. I'd give him GURPS ST 16+ as a young man and at least ST 14 even in old age.
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Old 05-08-2019, 05:48 PM   #33
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So for clarification, are these supposed to be people who disappeared in their own time under circumstances that wouldn't cause problems in their timeline if they suddenly disappeared? Like a sitting US president disappearing would cause all kinds of problems, but someone lost at sea and then recruited wouldn't cause any turmoil? Or is that not necessary?

Because if that isn't a requirement then it's pretty easy to just rattle off competent people from history.
On the whole, the less the world in general would miss them the better. Unless they are famous for going missing.
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Several Hollywood stars from worlds were they didn't get a chance to be in the movies might make great choices. William S. Hart (the first movie cowboy star) and Tom Mix (the most famous silent film cowboy) were incredible outdoors men with world class cowboy, scout, and explorer type skills. Kathrine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Gene Kelly, Burt Lancaster, and Douglas Fairbanks, all combined amazing physical skills and very high social skills. Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee add profiund martial arts skills to the mix. Mable Norman and Debbie Reynolds could, with no polymorphing powers, radically change their appearance at the drop of a hat. Both women fooled close friends and relatives in public with no preperation just acting skills. Agents like these would be wildly impressive.
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Götz von Berlichingen might be worth grabbing. He was a fairly successful mercenary commander, in spite of spending most of his career missing an arm (which he had replaced with a pretty sweet prosthetic). He also has the dubious honor of being placed under the Imperial Ban (which basically made him legally something of a non-person, able to be murdered without consequence) twice and surviving. Indeed, he was still fighting in his sixties, and lived into his early eighties. He might be most worthwhile to recruit while he's still relatively young, to train him for more modern strategy, but even as an older man could at the very least be a useful agent in low-TL timelines.
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