List Of your favorite Custom Perks

[aesir23]

Low-Profile Desk Job
You work in an out of the way cubicle, have a desk that faces the door, a boss that respects your privacy, and/or very few actual responsibilities. For each -1 penalty you take to your daily job roll, you may spend 20% of your workday doing non-work related activities up to -4. These must be activities you can perform while appearing to work, but can include, Research, Self-teaching, etc.... The GM may assign additional penalties for more obvious/risky activities (e.g. preparing a ritual spell).

A perk level variant of Independent Income.

[Anders]

Always gets captchas

You always succeed with captchas on the first try.

[Anders]

Originally Posted by SCHIFTY

How is this one useful?

You've obviously never browsed the darker side of the Internet. There's plenty of things there I'd like to forget. Such as F.A.T.A.L.

[chris1982]

Originally Posted by aesir23

Low-Profile Desk Job

Inspired by the above:

Work Council Protegee
You can only be fired from your job if you really screw something up, but not for just sub-average work performance. When there are layoffs, you can't get fired if there is someone younger than you with the same job description.

Perk-level Tenure.

[The Benj]

Originally Posted by aesir23

Low-Profile Desk Job
You work in an out of the way cubicle, have a desk that faces the door, a boss that respects your privacy, and/or very few actual responsibilities. For each -1 penalty you take to your daily job roll, you may spend 20% of your workday doing non-work related activities up to -4. These must be activities you can perform while appearing to work, but can include, Research, Self-teaching, etc.... The GM may assign additional penalties for more obvious/risky activities (e.g. preparing a ritual spell).

A perk level variant of Independent Income.

Cute. You still have to show up, but you can spend most of your day doing other stuff.
I've had jobs like that.

[Figleaf23]

Originally Posted by Asta Kask

You've obviously never browsed the darker side of the Internet. There's plenty of things there I'd like to forget. Such as F.A.T.A.L.

Two girls one cup. Brrrr.

[Harald387]

Originally Posted by Rocket Man

Every Pocket Has a Silver Lining: One item you own, of no larger than pocket-size, will automatically escape notice in a quick frisk or patdown search. The item must be specified in advance and the means described by the player (a lockpick or knife hidden in the lining of a jacket, a watch that seems unremarkable, and so on). A strip search will find this item, however ... this is careful planning and a little good fortune, not magic.

A bit too broad for a perk. I'd suggest '+4 to Holdout skill rolls to hide one particular item', or '+1 to Holdout rolls while wearing clothes that you've had time to modify'. The former is a lot like equipment bond, but limited to one narrow skill; the latter is like 'Standard Operating Procedure (always modifies his clothes to have hidden linings, secret pockets, etc)'.

[cybermancer2k1]

Originally Posted by The Benj

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

Agreed. Rocket Man already raised an objection and suggested a scaleback.

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

Again agreed. Of course, where ETS (or similar cinematic/supernatural traits) is absent, then the Perceptive PC will be the one who notices things first.

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

Right. Since Perceptives can take in large amounts of information at a glance (what speed-readers already do when scanreading text), it makes the Speed-Reading skill more efficient. But as I told Rocket Man, we can strip off everyting but the "you notice it first" ability and still keep the flavor of the perk.

[cybermancer2k1]

Originally Posted by aesir23

Low-Profile Desk Job
You work in an out of the way cubicle, have a desk that faces the door, a boss that respects your privacy, and/or very few actual responsibilities. For each -1 penalty you take to your daily job roll, you may spend 20% of your workday doing non-work related activities up to -4. These must be activities you can perform while appearing to work, but can include, Research, Self-teaching, etc....).

Like...oh, dunno...surfing certain "stimulating" websites (wink, wink)?

[Rocket Man]

Originally Posted by Harald387

A bit too broad for a perk. I'd suggest '+4 to Holdout skill rolls to hide one particular item', or '+1 to Holdout rolls while wearing clothes that you've had time to modify'. The former is a lot like equipment bond, but limited to one narrow skill; the latter is like 'Standard Operating Procedure (always modifies his clothes to have hidden linings, secret pockets, etc)'.

Very reasonable. Thanks for the suggestion -- I especially like the first one, but the second is cool as well.