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Old 02-18-2016, 02:05 PM   #1
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But broccoli is way more delicious than blueberry muffin!
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Old 02-18-2016, 02:32 PM   #2
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Food: Social Disadvantage, 50pts
You're food. People think you're food, and will eat you without second thought. You're not only edible, but currently prepared in edible form, ready for consumption. Sharks and cows are animals. Bowls of soup and steaks are food.

Particular Appeal: If you're only food for a particular diet, exclude certain diets, are a delicacy, "weird food", or other factors altering the likelihood someone will want to consume the character, use Frequency of Appearance.
The M&M's from the television commercials would have the full disadvantage with an extra "Particular Appeal" for being tasty candy. The humans seem to have no qualms eating them while they're alive and talking.
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Old 02-19-2016, 01:07 PM   #3
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What's that disad? It's like Social Stigma, but worse than "Valuable Property", and Enemy(Hunter) Just About Everyone. The entire population, even the vegans, is inclined to kill you, and won't think twice about it.
Isn't this just a more serious level of Social Stigma - i.e. Social Stigma (not even Valuable)?. It seems like an intermediate level Valuable Property and people being eager to kill you and glad to reward your death (which is Social Stigma (Monster)). Killing you doesn't cause any trouble, but not anybody's actual goal (which would be the case for Enemy), or particularly praiseworthy.
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Old 02-19-2016, 07:39 PM   #4
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Isn't this just a more serious level of Social Stigma - i.e. Social Stigma (not even Valuable)?. It seems like an intermediate level Valuable Property and people being eager to kill you and glad to reward your death (which is Social Stigma (Monster)). Killing you doesn't cause any trouble, but not anybody's actual goal (which would be the case for Enemy), or particularly praiseworthy.
If there's no penalty at all for killing you, and indeed, there's a reward (yum!), that suggests Enemy, not Stigma.
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Old 02-19-2016, 07:43 PM   #5
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Isn't this just a more serious level of Social Stigma - i.e. Social Stigma (not even Valuable)?. It seems like an intermediate level Valuable Property and people being eager to kill you and glad to reward your death (which is Social Stigma (Monster)). Killing you doesn't cause any trouble, but not anybody's actual goal (which would be the case for Enemy), or particularly praiseworthy.
It's closer to Monster. People are rewarded for eating you, they get full and/or have a tasty meal. Problem is, Monster doesn't imply a particular vulnerability. The Disad I've proposed implies the sort of vulnerability present in food (immediate edibility) for the dominant campaign species.
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Old 02-20-2016, 12:38 AM   #6
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Isn't Monstrous also a level of attractiveness? This gets confusing because the red M&M is pretty Handsome to the ladies.
Social Stigma (Monster) means that, regardless of your attractiveness, you are clearly identifiable as something that can and probably should be killed.

Appearance (Monstrous) means that you're so ugly a lot of people might fear you, possibly to the point of trying to preemptively kill you on the assumption you have the former Disadvantage.

It's possible to have one, both, or neither.
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Old 02-22-2016, 05:07 PM   #7
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What's that disad? It's like Social Stigma, but worse than "Valuable Property", and Enemy(Hunter) Just About Everyone. The entire population, even the vegans, is inclined to kill you, and won't think twice about it.
I think that's close enough, actually. Valuable property, with an extra -5 because you're not even valuable, plus Enemy group: Almost Everyone quite often. Sure they have no active animosity, but folks will attack you without a second thought if they notice you, so close enough.
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Old 02-22-2016, 05:21 PM   #8
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Keep in mind that the template should work for a giant muffin as well. I imagine one of those "World's Largest" novelties, perhaps a 50000 HP colossus of a muffin. Chief attraction of some hamlet in the American Midwest.
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Old 02-18-2016, 07:25 AM   #9
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There is only two reverent disadvantage Will someone care if some else harms you, or will noone care

If some will object then the Social Stigma(Valuable Property). The the value can me non-montry, it could Sentimental Value, or Trancatory (Eat someone's else lunch out of office fridge you might make them have skip lunch making them very crank with you)
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