[Space] Anyone Ever Run A Campgain Based Off Of Wild Life?

[Gold & Appel Inc]

Originally Posted by ericthered

The real objection I have is that the subject races don't appear to have been tinkered with to make them more tractable. I can see the Qasuti being left alone and the Tarcaser slipping under the radar, but the ascended and Gustrogin still have will 10. Its possible that they started out with higher wills and selfish, but I don't think that really fits. [snip]

Alternate stats for unmedicated Ascended and Male Gustrogins, both of which are tightly-restrained in this society, are given. The ones the average overlord has to deal with may be Willpower 10, but they were a lot more problematic "in the wild." The Willpower of female Gustrogins wasn't tampered with because they want to use them for soldiers and don't have a reliable way to give them -Will but +Fearless.

ETA: On a related note, I'd personally overhaul the Ascended build a lot if I was running this. Their natural mental Disadvantages make their native society completely unworkable as-described. At worst, they should've had a quirk-level Pride or Bad Temper and either quirk-level Uncongenial, Chauvinist, maybe both, or at worst Intolerance [-5] against everybody outside their core group, if they had a comfortable presence in space when the Shahar found them. That level of infrastructure simply does not get achieved by violently-introverted lone wolves; I consider their medicated stats excessive for a civilization at that level of technology that does not have access to genius superheroes who can make that stuff happen by themselves, let alone what they supposedly have on their own.

This is all relative to the average Human, of course, who might be much easier to get down to a typical Willpower of 9 because we started at 10 with no major universal antisocial flaws, which provides a plausible reason why they'd try to make us into the obedient little butt-monkies with keen eyes and clever little hands who do the technical tasks like powerless bosses. They probably would've tried to make half or all of us into their bureaucrats, too, if they hadn't conquered the Tarcaseru first, because we get along so well compared to everybody else in the setting.