NPCs: John Q. Public and others.

[Frosty]

Create and critique characters who can function as NPCs in game worlds.

I'll go first, to get this started.

Name: John Q. Public
Age: 35 years old
Gender: Male
Occupation: Regular
John is Caucasian, has wavy blond hair, brilliant blue eyes, is of medium build, 5'10" in height, and 170 lbs in weight. He is currently wearing a black turtleneck sweater, a peach shirt, a green sweater, a pair of blue jeans, and a pair of black leather loafers.

I'm just a regular Joe, with a regular job. I'm your average white, suburbanite slob. I like football, and porno, and books about war. I got an average house, with a nice hardwood floor. My wife and my job, my kids and my car, my feet on my table, and a Cuban cigar.

Basic Attributes:

ST - 10
DX - 10
IQ - 10
HT - 10

Secondary Characteristics:

HP - 10
Will - 10
Per - 10
FP - 10

Basic Speed: 5
Dodge: 8
Basic Move: 5

Image and Looks:

Average [0]

Social Background:

English (Native) [0]
Irish (Native) [-6]

Wealth and Influence:

Average [0]
Status 0 [0]

Advantages:

Talent (Smooth Operator) [-15]

Disadvantages:

Sense of Duty (Small Group) [+5]

Quirks:

Chain smokes [+1]
Drives really slow in the express lane [+1]
Uses public toilets and urinates on the seat [+1]
Walks around in the summer time and says, "How about this heat?" [+1]
Sometimes parks in handicapped spaces [+1]

Skills:

Acting +0 [-2]
Animal Handling +0 [-2]
Area Knowledge (Neighborhood) +0 [-1]
Brawling +0 [-1]
Carousing +0 [-1]
Computer Operation +0 [-1]
Cooking +0 [-2]
First Aid +0 [-1]
Influence Skills (Fast-Talk) +0 [-2]
Influence Skills (Savoir-Faire) +0 [-1]
Mechanic +0 [-2]
Missile Weapon (Guns (Rifle)) +0 [-1]
Public Speaking +0 [-2]
Swimming +0 [-1]
Throwing +0 [-2]
Vehicle Skills (Driving (Car)) +0 [-2]
Writing +0 [-2]

Summary:

[37] + [-6] + [-15] + [5] + [1] + [1] + [1] + [1] + [1] + [-2] + [-2] + [-1] + [-1] + [-1] + [-1] + [-2] + [-1] + [-2] + [-1] + [-2] + [-1] + [-2] + [-1] + [-2] + [-2] + [-2] = 0

Post your own or comment on ones already submitted. Make them as detailed or generic as you want. Point totals are up to you.

[copeab]

First, you have the signs switched from standard conventions. For example, talent (Smooth Operator) should be [+15] or, preferably, [15]. While I understand the pattern you are using, it will confuse some people at first.

Secondly, you have the point total listed in a rather confusing way. It looks like he costs 0 points, not 37 points as in the case.

[Frosty]

Originally Posted by copeab

First, you have the signs switched from standard conventions.

Whoops. I had actually meant to switch all of the signs around before posting the character.

Originally Posted by copeab

For example, talent (Smooth Operator) should be [+15] or, preferably, [15]. While I understand the pattern you are using, it will confuse some people at first.

Yes, the group that I played with when I was learning how to build a character with GURPS actually did it this way and I followed suit.

Originally Posted by copeab

Secondly, you have the point total listed in a rather confusing way. It looks like he costs 0 points, not 37 points as in the case.

Again, my bad. That's the way I learned how to configure the point totals. The initial point allowance was 37, which was bumped up with the disadvantage "Sense of Duty (Small Group)" and the various quirks (because I treated these numbers as additions). All of the advantages and skills were treated as numbers to be subtracted.

[Sense of Duty (Kittens)]

Name: Dr. Mark Lucas
ST 10 DX 10 IQ 12 [40] HT 10
Hp 10 SPD 5.00 MV 5 Per 12 Will 12 HT 10

Social Background
Status 0
Languages
English [0]
Spanish (accented) [4]
Latin (Broken) [2]

Advantages:
Perks: + Physician skill counts as influence roll for Patients, collegues etc.
+ Loves His Career

Disadvantages:
Code of Honor (Hippocratic Oath)[-5]
Duty (Private Practice) (12 or less Nonhazardous) [-5]
Honesty (9) [-15]
Workaholic [-5]

Quirks: - Flosses at least 4 times a day -Insists on cash payments, up front if absolutely possible - Bad identifier (-2 on IQ rolls to remember faces or names) - Laser lover -Vow (Always hear out Drug Reps and evaluate their claims in a rational manner)

Skills:
Accounting H IQ-1 [2]-11
Body Language IQ-1 [1]-11
Computer Operation E IQ [1]-12
^Diagnosis H IQ+2 [11]-14
Driving (Automobile) A DX-1 [1]-9
Electronics Operation (Medical) A IQ+1 [4]-13
Finance H IQ-2 [1]-10
Housekeeping E IQ [1]-12
Law (American Medical) H IQ-2 [1]
Literature H IQ-2 [1]-10
Mathematics (Statistics) H IQ-2 [1]-10
Merchant A IQ [2]-12
Physician H IQ+2 [12]-14
^Physiology H IQ-2 [1]-11
Psychology H IQ-1 [2]-11
Research A IQ-1 [1]-1
Surgery VH IQ [9]-13

^ bought up from Physician
Total: [65]

[simply Nathan]

I thought we already had this one.

Is it spamming to post the same build in two different threads? If so, disregard/delete the following:

Name Smasha Mooksworf (-7 points)
Human Male, 6'1", 300 lbs. 16 yrs old.
Smasha learn smash stuff. Smash stuff good, get food good. Smash stuff bad, get no food.
ST 14[40]
DX 10
IQ 7[-60]
HT 12[20]
Dmg 2d/1d; BL 39 lbs; HP 18[8]; Per 8[5]; Will 7; Basic Speed 5.0[-10]; Basic Move 4[-5]
Advantages: Fit[5]; Rapid Healing[5]; Resistant to Disease+8[5]; Toughness 1*[3]; Special Exercises (may buy Toughness)[1]
Disadvantages: Absent Mindedness[-15]; Appearance(Unattractive){from scars gained during training}[-4]; Clueless[-10]; Easy to Read[-10]; Gluttony(15)[-2]; Language(English Accented/None)[-4]; Magic Susceptibility 3[-9]; Odious Personal Habits(Hygiene? What hygiene?)[-5].
Quirks: Hulk Speak(-1 reaction from Grammar Nazis, English Majors, and so on; -1 to Poetry)[-1]; Dislikes the letter T[-1]
Skills: Brawling(DX+2)[4]-12; Poetry(IQ-2)[1]-5; Throwing(DX+2)[8]-12; Two-Handed Axe/Mace(DX+4)[16]-14; Wrestling(DX+2)[8]-12.

* DR(Tough Skin, -40%)

[Frosty]

Originally Posted by Kenneth Latrans

I thought we already had this one.

Is it spamming to post the same build in two different threads? If so, disregard/delete the following:

I actually got the idea from that thread, I just didn't realise that it was still active.

[Michele]

Originally Posted by Frosty

I'm just a regular Joe, with a regular job. I'm your average white, suburbanite slob.

_And_ he's a Smooth Operator? I don't know. A Talent is by definition an exceptional capability, outside "average".

Also exceptional is to be native-level fluent in Irish. Such people are a minority _in Ireland_, not to mention anywhere else.

And a chain smoker hasn't a Quirk, he's got an Addiction at the -5 point level (Tobacco). An occasional smoker might call his tobacco use just a Quirk.

[Frosty]

Originally Posted by Michele

_And_ he's a Smooth Operator? I don't know. A Talent is by definition an exceptional capability, outside "average".

In real life terms or GURPS terms? I never figured the talents in GURPS to be particularly exceptional.

Originally Posted by Michele

Also exceptional is to be native-level fluent in Irish. Such people are a minority _in Ireland_, not to mention anywhere else.

I agree with you here, I was intending for the character to have Irish blood (but not necessarily be Irish) and putting "Native" was probably pushing it.

Originally Posted by Michele

And a chain smoker hasn't a Quirk, he's got an Addiction at the -5 point level (Tobacco). An occasional smoker might call his tobacco use just a Quirk.

I did not know that. Thanks for the help.