List Of your favorite Custom Perks

[cybermancer2k1]

Accessorize! You know what accessory or accessories best go with an outfit. You may not be savvy enough to dress up well, but you still know what scarf, purse or watch (for instance) to wear that will draw compliments. Perk-level Fashion Sense.

[Rocket Man]

Originally Posted by cybermancer2k1

Perceptive: Your sight is speed-geared; you notice things faster than the average person and are thus better at gathering information at a glance. Example: while any driver can read a road sign while driving the interstate, you can read not only the road sign, but the billboard behind it, and retain the relevant information from each.

Game effects:

• Subtract 20% from the time it takes to find hidden items, conduct research and anything else that requires unobstructed vision.
• If there is a question as to who in your group is the first to spot something, it's automatically you.
• If your GM allows use of this in combat (his/her call), be aware that noticing something and being able to react to it are two different things.
• This perk can be used with the Speed-Reading skill.

Apologies, of course, is this appears elsewhere...

Seems too powerful to be a perk, and in some ways, very similar to simple high Perception (with a bit of Speed-Reading and Photographic Memory mixed in). Can it be narrowed a bit, so it's less broadly useful?

[cybermancer2k1]

You Meant Well: People seem to know when you are trying to help, even if you end up trainwrecking the situation. +1 Reaction in your favor only if you were sincere and intentional in your efforts.

[cybermancer2k1]

Originally Posted by Rocket Man

Seems too powerful to be a perk, and in some ways, very similar to simple high Perception (with a bit of Speed-Reading and Photographic Memory mixed in). Can it be narrowed a bit, so it's less broadly useful?

Sure. We can just keep the "you notice it first" part and still keep the flavor, I think. I was going for those types (myself included) who are able to take in a lot of information with just the barest glance -- I use it with my Roving Eyes quirk ;)

[Flyndaran]

Familiar Stink: You may operate as if you had discriminatory smell for one person, place or thing. You just know it that well.

[Figleaf23]

Originally Posted by cybermancer2k1

You Meant Well: People seem to know when you are trying to help, even if you end up trainwrecking the situation. +1 Reaction in your favor only if you were sincere and intentional in your efforts.

Whoa! Wish I could buy this IRL.

[SCHIFTY]

Originally Posted by Figleaf23

Forgetting: The character can completely and genuinely forget things, on purpose. Once forgotten, the character will automatically forget that she forgot. The datum is gone, and the character can answer honestly (and pass a lie detector test) that she doesn't know about it.

How is this one useful?

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by SCHIFTY

How is this one useful?

What book of Cthulu? I never read such a book.

[The Benj]

Originally Posted by cybermancer2k1

Perceptive: Your sight is speed-geared; you notice things faster than the average person and are thus better at gathering information at a glance. Example: while any driver can read a road sign while driving the interstate, you can read not only the road sign, but the billboard behind it, and retain the relevant information from each.

Yeah, I'd say this is too powerful for a Perk.

Game effects:
Subtract 20% from the time it takes to find hidden items, conduct research and anything else that requires unobstructed vision.

Sounds like Efficient (Search) to me.

If there is a question as to who in your group is the first to spot something, it's automatically you.

This is cute (if a bit niche), but should be trumped by Enhanced Time Sense.

If your GM allows use of this in combat (his/her call), be aware that noticing something and being able to react to it are two different things.

A fair caution.

This perk can be used with the Speed-Reading skill.

What does this mean? That you also shave 20% off the time to use Speed-Reading?

[Figleaf23]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

What book of Cthulu? I never read such a book.

Why yes, officer, I'd be more than happy to take a polygraph test.