Buffy RPG - A Hellmouth in Waterloo [Closed]

[Herobizkit]

Ok, here's the rough draft.

[sblock=Rory Shanahan]Rory Shanahan, White Hat
STRength: 2 (2)
DEXterity: 4 (2; 2+fae)
CONstitution: 2 (2)
INTelligence: 4 (3; +1 Artist)
PERception: 3 (3)
WILlpower: 4 (3; +1 Artist)

Qualities and Drawback (19Q - 9D)
Half-Fae (6Q): Immortal (0), Acute Senses: Keen Hearing (2), Attractiveness (1),
Vulnerable to Cold Iron (-3), Occult skill +1 (1), Dexterity +2 (2), Fae Magics (3): +5 to rolls involving illusion/charms

Artist (2Q): +1 to two mental stats, +1 Art skill, -1 WIL to fear or emotions rolls: Rory's been gifted with an Artist's heart. Mom wanted him to preach; he chose to sing.

Empathy (2Q): It's important for Fae to know how mortals feel so that they may prey upon their desires

Sorcery +1 (5Q): He's got the touch, he's got the Power. Yeah!

The Sight (3Q): being a magical creature himself, Rory can see others like him.

Contact: Local Entertainment Circuit (1Q): Rory's just starting to get connected with the local industry. Though his band's a current hit, they're not quite ready to lay anything on the line for him.

Adversary (2D): Donovan. After being ousted from his own band and losing his girl to Rory, Donovan's the type who wants revenge. Now he's 'stronger' than yesterday; now it's nothing but his way.

Bad Luck (2D): Just because he's one of them doesn't mean the Fey have forgiven his parent's trespasses. Faerie gold is Faerie gold, and until he gets it all back, the Fae won't let him forget about it.

Recurring Nightmares (1D): More of the same Fae love.

Covetous: Fame/Glory (1D): Craziness aside, he's still a Rocker at heart and wants to be famous. Canadian singers can be great, too!

Below Average Wealth (2D): His parents paid for college, but once Rory found out about the Faerie gold, that was it. He's on his own, now. Making his way in the world today takes everything he's got.

Honorable (1D): Rory's a great guy. He'll stick with you through thick and thin once you're in his good books.

Skills:
Art: 3 (2+1 Artist)
Doctor: 1
Driving: 2
Getting Medieval: 1
Influence: 3
Knowledge: 2 (Religion)
Mr. Fix-it: 1
Occultism: 3 (2+ 1 Half-Fae)[/sblock]

 

[jkason]

Okay, I think the stats above are more or less good now. Realizing we have a werewolf in the group, I realized making Gavin a tracker was probably redundant. The 'pain sense' isn't really something that's made for pinpointing people, anyway. Decided instead that it works better if he's more an eye for detail type. I think it works pretty well with the drawbacks: he tends to attract trouble, so he's developed an eye for it. Besides, seeing the pain-bringers before they bring said pain is similarly useful for his demon half.

Did we decide to change pain sense to sensing damage taken (and if so, was that just a raw number, or a percentage indicating 'how much it's hurt'?). Eitehr one works, just wondering.

Also, I'm still debating dropping the level of Occultism and instead using the drawback point to pick up a level of Hard to Kill or Resistance (pain). As a half-demon, he probably has some vague knowledge of the occult, but is it enough that he needs a rank, especially with a Watcher and an ex-Watcher around? I'm inclined to think increased survivability might be the better option.

 

[Cor Azer]

[MENTION=36150]Herobizkit[/MENTION]: two notes about Rory's write-up: 1. By my count, you only spent 14 of your available 15 skill points, and b. You might want to consider at least Occult Library (1); while Rory can cast spells, he has no way to find/researxh spells without begging others for books. Occult Library (1) gives him at least one book.

[MENTION=2710]jkason[/MENTION]: we'll go with "you know how much damage was taken (non-percentage version)". Investment in Hard to Kill is never a bad thing, but having multiple people with Ocultism helps when casting spells that require helpers, so I can't really say which is better... Go with which fits the character idea better and let mechanics fall where they may.

 

[Cor Azer]

Character sheets can now go in the brand-spankin' new Rogues Gallery thread: http://www.enworld.org/forum/rogues-gallery/312412-buffy-rpg-hellmouth-waterloo-casting-sheet.html

 

[Cor Azer]

The latest casting calls are in, and we're still looking for details on a few characters, but to recap:

[MENTION=12460]airwalkrr[/MENTION]: is playing Rees Dafydd (White Hat), a techie Watcher working with the cover of a computer lab operator at Waterloo U. New in town, essentially only knows the Slayer (whether she be Shayuri or a supporting character).

[MENTION=15640]DrZombie[/MENTION]: is playing Steven Moon (Hero), a first nations rugby player on sport scholarship at Waterloo U, with a bit of a werewolf problem. Possibly shares a class with some of the other students? Possibly takes a class from Rechard Butler?

[MENTION=2710]jkason[/MENTION]: is playing Gavin Petersen (White Hate), a pre-med student at Waterloo U recently discovering of his Poena Epsulum demonic heritage. Knows of Rechard's dietary customs. Does he know any other students?

[MENTION=36150]Herobizkit[/MENTION]: is playing Rory Shanahan (White Hat), a Catholic schooled Irish student studying ? at Waterloo I and playing Celtic rock whenever the gigs land. Oh, and trying to avoid the bad luck of the Fae chasing his half-Fae backside while he explores Wiccan traditions. Any links to other characters?

[MENTION=93930]Systole[/MENTION]: is playing Rechard Butler (Hero), an art/history teacher at Waterloo U whose good health and youthful looks are a credit an ancient ritual and regular consumption of demon blood. Any interesting students in his classes?

[MENTION=4936]Shayuri[/MENTION]: is playing either a Slayer or a gadgetgirl (or possibly some combination of them?) (Hero)

[MENTION=59043]Walking Dad[/MENTION]: and [MENTION=183]Acmite[/MENTION]: still waiting on concepts...

 

[jkason]

Personally, I think it's best if all the PC's know each other, whether or not they know all the secrets they're carrying 'round. 'gathering forces' can be fun, but in PbP it sometimes feels like it takes long enough to work through the plot without having to navigate the 'you meet a stranger, do you trust him?' stuff that has a kind of built-in conclusion, since deciding to steer clear of one another sort of derails the game.

My 2 cents, though I'll come along quietly if the others don't like the notion.

 

[DrZombie]

I usually solve things GM-wise by getting them all in combat with the same baddies. Nothing bonds like getting attacked by the same group of maniacs

Or we could all be in the same class, but I just don't see Steven do art history . General history, that's something else. Maths, science, computer science, biology are also possible.
Literature is a bit far-fetched.

Meeting up in the local sports bar/student bar after watching Canada get completely pwned at the rugby world cup (a draw against Japan? Fecking emberassing)

Meeting in the gym? On the sports track? The first rugby game of the uni?

 

[Walking Dad]

Sorry. I'm back and it took some time to read the thread

Looks I will be the Xander/Cordelia for all those freaks... uhm... heroes?

A geeky acting student who loves fantasy and superheroes films and comics.
Hangs out with this bunch, because in all his sources their is one similarity:
If one hangs around long enough with the 'others' you will end up as one yourself.

He is actually a pretty good grifter and liar, but will only get by luck through combat.

"If I can do it? Man, I'm an actor! I can fake it!"

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Comments? Sounds fine?

I will build him like an Investigator with less skills, right?

 

[Cor Azer]

Sorry. I'm back and it took some time to read the thread

Looks I will be the Xander/Cordelia for all those freaks... uhm... heroes?

A geeky acting student who loves fantasy and superheroes films and comics.
Hangs out with this bunch, because in all his sources their is one similarity:
If one hangs around long enough with the 'others' you will end up as one yourself.

He is actually a pretty good grifter and liar, but will only get by luck through combat.

"If I can do it? Man, I'm an actor! I can fake it!"

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Comments? Sounds fine?

I will build him like an Investigator with less skills, right?

Sounds good. A people person for the non-people

I think that's pretty much the difference between Investigator and White Hat. 15 for Attributes, 10 for Qualities, 15 for Skills.

 

[airwalkrr]

I'm pretty much gonna stick with your draft for Dafydd, Cor Azer, until I get a hold of the rules. Seems like it has points in all the right stuff.

Here's an idea for getting everyone together. Rechard is holding a lecture for one of his art history classes, perhaps detailing the Gothic architectural styles and their fascination for arches being symbolic of portals when suddenly a portal opens up out of an archway in the lecture hall. A bunch of demons run rampant and students scream. It just so happens Dafydd is sitting in on this lecture when he notices one of the students, a young girl, is not running, but kicking the crap out of the demons, and getting the crap beat out of her in turn. She manages just in time to protect a nerdy student (Walking Dad's character) from getting pummeled but takes a hard shot in exchange. Dafydd realizes he's found his Slayer and quickly pulls up information on the demons on his laptop which is conveniently already displaying several documents on demons who have been known to appear suddenly from arches. He calls out advice to the Slayer as she is suddenly assisted by the surprisingly capable Rechard who absorbs a blow that might have killed her. Meanwhile Stephen Moon, another student in the class, is getting angry, a little too angry, and gets wolfenstein on one of the demons. Rory stabs one with a drumstick he happens to have lying around which seems to turn the demon to dust. Dafydd yells to Rory to toss his drumstick to the Slayer who uses it to stab another demon, which doesn't seem to work, but Dafydd cries out "not the shoulder! The heart!" The Slayer responds appropriately as Rory tosses another drumstick to the Slayer and she stabs the right place this time. Finally the whole group gathers around the only other student who hasn't left the room, Gavin Peterson, who for some reason seems to be on the verge of sexual climax from the whole incident.

And scene.

The only thing we might have difficulty explaining is why a med student is in an art history class. Just sitting in perhaps?

The demons are obviously vampires. But where did this portal come from? And what do the demons want? (besides the usual causing chaos and drinking blood schtick)