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+Hypnotism is a reaction roll with all applicable modifiers.

This perk reflects the fact that hypnotizing someone is simply a matter of distracting them and charismatic attractive people are more of a distractive.

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Cruel Sensei*
Prerequisites: Callous, Teaching, cinematic campaign.

Normally, Callous teachers are neither likeable nor efficient. But for you, this is a style that works. You get +3 to your Teaching rolls, but only while you're yelling at and insulting students, administering cruel and unusual punishments for failure, giving SAW-like lessons etc. It effectively offsets the -3 to Teaching that Callous characters get. Essential for the angry sifu, the cinematic army sarge, or the well-intentioned extremist seeking aprentices.

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Heh... nice.

"OK, Pai Mei... Here I come."

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well some we have in my games i play in are

perfect hair- never need to do more then run your hand though your hair and it always looks fine no matter if you just came out of a sawmp it still looks fine

perfect skin - never get a sunburn always tan and it will still look nice and you don't scar and such

elven blood - you count as an elf to elf only magic items be they a powerstone that makes elves hair grow each time they use a point of energy or they have a limit on them that only an elf can use it

^^;; theres more but yea heh

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Epic Trenchcoat: When you have a trenchcoat, it can be used as a Light Cloak, with the same statistics.

Drunken Harmony: Get a +2 to any singing or musical instrument roll while intoxicated.

Useless Super Power: You are entitled to a Super Power that gives no benefit what-so-ever. Such powers include Water Proof Hands, Able to Summon a Lawn Gnome, or DR 5 against mosquito's.

Insta-Strip: Can remove all clothing/armor as a free maneuver. However time to put armor on remains the same.

Lucky-Slot: You get 1 extra character point if you manage to randomly roll 3 sevens in a row.

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Interesting.

So you don't take any penalty for being Tipsy and only -2 for being Drunk. Seems okay, I guess.

I can see uses for all of those: Forensics dodge, free money and Dengue Fever immunity, respectively. Unless you mean mosquitos actually used as a weapon.
Which would be strange.

Hmm, I can't see any sensible, non-supernatural way for this to work, but it's still pretty amusing.

Way too metagamey. Plus, anything that generates points from nowhere is bad in my book. Even when it's quite unlikely to make this worth even 1 point (~0.033%, by my reckoning, but that's a chance that comes up for every three rolls).

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Practiced Tongue: +1 to Acting to tell lies you've prepared previously (not ones you just made up).

Made for a PC with lots of secrets, specifically to model them being good at keeping big secrets.

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The first two examples I'm not too worried about. The text does say "No benefit whatsoever" so that would be a shtick for the first two. (Any attempts to sell/give away the lawn gnomes would make them disappear or they're non-tactile illusions. You'd still leave fingerprints with waterproof hands.)

DR 5 against Mosquitos is really:
Resistant (Immune, Rare Mosquito-Vectored Diseases ) [5] with the special effect that you don't get bitten by mosquitos for some reason or another.

(It seems a little more than Rare, depending on your setting, but not scratching from a mosquito bite sounds like a perk, so it balances.)

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I like it, but I might argue that a better version would be this...

Cruel Sensei. You have a knack for finding the specific cruel punishments, tasks, etc., that actually work better than normal teaching methods for particular students. You must role-play this, but it adds +1 to all relevant teaching rolls, and you don't have to worry about real-world educational theory, etc. It's a perk, so your method works.

Note that this does NOT involve Callous. The cruel sensei is cruel because he (or she) cares!

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Not quite, you can still get them if they're transmitted by something other than a mosquito bite - dirty needles, contaminated blood transfusion, the work of mad science, or biological weapons developments for example. And lets face it, several of those are about as likely to come up in an adventurer's life as an infected mosquito bite.
Anyway mosquito bites normally do 0 damage and still transmit disease. I guess that would be the tough skin limitation on the DR though.