05-07-2019, 06:58 AM | #1 |
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Alternate Version of Chummy
Hi all,
I found these two threads: I'm proposing an alternate version that I think might be better than telling the player they react to NPCs at +2 (or +4). So, I'm offering up a Self-Control roll version of the disadvantage... Chummy (-5 points*)I like that the burden goes mostly to roleplaying, and that you can get degrees of it via the Self-Control system. Thoughts? |
05-07-2019, 02:54 PM | #2 |
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Re: Alternate Version of Chummy
That's pretty reasonable.
This would mean that a Chummy person would be effectively ordinary during enforced solitude, but would be distractable and troublesome when there's lots of social options... unless their player finds a way to focus on the most useful social options. |
05-07-2019, 06:50 PM | #3 |
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Re: Alternate Version of Chummy
Is there one for someone for whom being in a crowd acts as a heavy stimulant?
I remember because there was one episode of Covert Affairs where Annie Walker was assigned to be a plant in an arms-dealer's network. What she did was walk into a cassino and play until she ran out of money and supposedly got loan-sharked into treason (that actually being her assignment of course). The interesting thing, helped by the fact that she was more than a bit of an extrovert, was that she looked like the presence of people was something of a stimulant drug while she was playing. She was under control enough to bait the targets. But she played the part credibly enough that one might wonder if that has a Gurps disadvantage.
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05-08-2019, 07:17 AM | #4 | |
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I don't know of a GURPS trait off the top of my head that does what I understand of your question. But I could imagine one where you get maybe a +1 or +2 to mental tasks when you have an audience of at least 10 people or something like that. |
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05-08-2019, 07:45 AM | #5 | |
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It would be a disadvantage because it could get someone into a compromising position and possibly end up as the cornerstone for more harmful addictions.
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05-08-2019, 08:04 AM | #6 | |
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05-08-2019, 08:06 AM | #7 | |
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05-08-2019, 08:39 AM | #8 |
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Re: Alternate Version of Chummy
I think that might be workable as a modifier on the self-control disadvantage that gets affected by it. Something like...
Egging You OnI can see room for size of crowd adjusting the modifier. But is that basically what you're thinking? |
05-08-2019, 09:50 AM | #9 | |
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