Today I wrote up the creation of a sample character, Edward, Lord Hinton. Trivia mentioned not long ago that she wanted to make sure we had fewer plots in which the player/storyteller had his own character kidnapped and in need of rescue. Accordingly, I'll be making up some NPC hostages for just this reason; I really do think that players kidnap their own heroes more out of laziness than anything else. After all, you seldom have any NPCs on a MUX whom you have authority to kidnap, especially if you would like your heroes to have some personal connection to the victim. Kidnapping another PC, even one made to be kidnapped, is notoriously boring for the victim. Click on the title of this post to see Edward on a small pbwiki I made to hold my notes until a more robust version comes on board.
In other notes, I found an excellent biography of Doctor Nikola, master criminal, Bond-villain-prototype, and wielder of occult powers, which you can find HERE and my copy of Marcus Rowland's Forgotten Futures is acting up, but I hope he can get me through it.
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Friday, September 21, 2007
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Backgrounds
I know True20 is only a tentative system, but I figure one of the ways we'll find out if it should stay our system is if we work with it.
Today I made Backgrounds. Backgrounds are what True20 has instead of d20 Races. Every player gets to pick a Background, which gives you two background-specific feats, two skills at 4 ranks each, and two "Favored Feats" which I will explain another time. You don't have to pick one of these Backgrounds; you can always take the "Human" Background: one feat of your choice, one skill at 4 ranks. Backgrounds give you twice as many goodies, but you have to pick from a list.
The following Backgrounds were drafted: Academic, Adventurer, Aristocrat, Barrister. Beggar, Clergyman, Constable, Consulting Detective, Cowboy, Criminal, Engineer, Entertainer, Governess, Industrialist, Journalist, Labourer, Native, New Woman, Officer, Politician, Rogue, Seaman, Servant, Soldier, Solicitor, Spiritualist, Sportsman, Spy, Suffragette, Surgeon.
This is enough for us to get started; I am confident new ones will be added as players request them but most characters should find one that fits. There are three Supernatural Backgrounds planned but not drafted: Mechanical Man, Moreau, and Reanimated Corpse. They pose special challenges.
Today I made Backgrounds. Backgrounds are what True20 has instead of d20 Races. Every player gets to pick a Background, which gives you two background-specific feats, two skills at 4 ranks each, and two "Favored Feats" which I will explain another time. You don't have to pick one of these Backgrounds; you can always take the "Human" Background: one feat of your choice, one skill at 4 ranks. Backgrounds give you twice as many goodies, but you have to pick from a list.
The following Backgrounds were drafted: Academic, Adventurer, Aristocrat, Barrister. Beggar, Clergyman, Constable, Consulting Detective, Cowboy, Criminal, Engineer, Entertainer, Governess, Industrialist, Journalist, Labourer, Native, New Woman, Officer, Politician, Rogue, Seaman, Servant, Soldier, Solicitor, Spiritualist, Sportsman, Spy, Suffragette, Surgeon.
This is enough for us to get started; I am confident new ones will be added as players request them but most characters should find one that fits. There are three Supernatural Backgrounds planned but not drafted: Mechanical Man, Moreau, and Reanimated Corpse. They pose special challenges.
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