09-09-2009, 01:02 PM | #41 |
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Re: NPC random statistics roll chart?
What about the unlucky advantages? Do they overlap? Is it possible to have both Cursed and Luck? Is it possible to have Dead Broke and Luck?
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09-09-2009, 02:57 PM | #42 |
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Re: NPC random statistics roll chart?
I'd say that Dead Broke may overlap with Luck (as long as your luck isn't aspected towards anything where you could gain money) but Cursed would not be in the same character as Luck (being that Cursed is : If something goes right, it misses you. Any time the GM feels like hosing you, he can, and you have no complaint coming, because you are Cursed.)
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09-09-2009, 07:33 PM | #43 | ||
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Re: NPC random statistics roll chart?
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However, in the interests of dramatic flair, I don't see the problem in adding some major Advantages (Intolerance is indeed common, and disabilities such as Lame Legs, Blindness, Hard of Hearing, Bad Sight and the like are fairly common) in there. Quote:
Also, there is nothing stopping a creative GM from taking a lucky break and turning it into a run of bad luck! Last edited by Ragitsu; 09-09-2009 at 08:06 PM. |
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09-10-2009, 10:04 AM | #44 | |
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09-10-2009, 10:09 AM | #45 | |
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The Intolerance ... that's a very tricky and very political thing to try to model, considering that it's an indefinite social condition that overlaps oddly with Ethnicity, Age, Education, Wealth, and what part of the United States you grew up in (remembering that this demographic model is US-based, not world-based). First remember we're talking about an Intolerance so severe it rises to the level of a GURPS point value. Are white and black people equally likely to be intolerant, across the age spectrum? Are poor people more tolerant (because they're more likely to live in mixed-race situations) or less tolerant (if they're from racially homogenous rural communities)? Are you likely to become more tolerant as you become more educated? Is someone born in 1940 likely to be more or less tolerant than someone born in 1980? Women versus men? And there's types of Intolerance: against blacks, against all non-whites, against gays, against Japanese, against Muslims, against Jews... even, I suppose, against political parties or "educated college boys." How do you define which is more likely, based on the person's background? |
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09-10-2009, 08:24 PM | #46 |
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Re: NPC random statistics roll chart?
Roll 1d+6 or 2d+4 for each attribute. Sure, it skews NPCs a little toward high attributes, but PCs are already going to be ahead of them anyway.
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09-10-2009, 08:30 PM | #47 |
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Re: NPC random statistics roll chart?
There's nothing wrong with using the Quirk level of Intolerance as well.
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09-11-2009, 10:01 AM | #48 | |
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That is to say, an old rich man should have a higher average HT than an old poor man, but he shouldn't be prevented from having a low HT. |
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09-13-2009, 12:34 PM | #49 | |
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Oh, I would very much like you to include your sources for each chart, even if that's "Fish's best guess". Thanks! |
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09-13-2009, 06:59 PM | #50 | |
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In your example, the rich man would discard the low die, but the poor man would discard the high die.
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