The wheel of life has many spokes yet so few people ever leave the hub.
-- Stanley Victor Paskavich
The wheel of life has many spokes yet so few people ever leave the hub.
-- Stanley Victor Paskavich
Incredibly skilled.
Character has established some degree of rapport with an alien intelligence.
Character has a close friend, or several of the same. Such relationships require maintenance and, just as the player character may call upon his friends for help, they can depend upon the PC's assistance from time to time.
Character possesses a magical device or holy relic of significant power.
The character is considered to be a desirable mate amongst his or her own people and perhaps members of other Races.
A character possessing Beast Kin is deeply in touch with the primal side.
Required specialization: species
Allows a character to communicate with non- or minimally intelligent creatures.
Significantly larger than average size members of the same Race.
"Lucky" or touched by a benevolent Celestial, things tend to work out for Blessed characters.
Each level in Blessed allows a character to reroll one critical failure per session.
5 Character Points per level.
A powerful individual or organization owes this character a favor.
This character has survived real combat situations.
This character has one or more acquaintences that hold a position of influence.
This character is good under pressure.
This character may pick up on the emotional states of others.
This character is a public figure and is well known (and probably respected) on a local, national, or global (etc.) level.
Character owns, or has free, direct access to, useful Gear appropriate to Race, World and/or Era. Levels in Gear translate directly to Technology level. That is to say that Gear 5 would grant a total of five levels in Technology.
For instance: One LVL 3 Gear and one LVL 2 Gear.
This character has a place to live.
This character may ingest indigestible matter with little or no ill effect.
The Shape of the Universe smiles upon this individual.
This character controls one or more minions that will carry out any instruction from their master with neither question nor hesitation up to, and including, sacrificing their lives.
This character has a companion animal (or similarly useful, mundane, non- or minimally-intelligent creature) that travels with and assists the character in whatever manner it is capable.
This character may recall even the most trivial of facts.
While this may never make a character totally immune to an ill-effect, it will effectively increase the character's Durability versus an attack of the same type.
This character has a loyal follower (or followers). While they are unlikely to sacrifice themselves, they will attempt to assist the character in any way they may be capable.
This character is smaller than an average member of his or her Race.
This character is abnormally willful. Each level in Strong Will corresponds to an additional level in Will (WIL).
Talent endows a character with a natural proficiency at a class of Skills and additionally grants authenticity to the character's work in the focused Skill family.
This character has a mentor of some type from whom the character may learn new Skills, etc.
This character is tougher than average.
Character possesses a book (or books) that contains real knowledge and power.
This character owns (or at least has use of) a personal conveyance.
This character has access to assests real and/or liquid. This may come in the form of an expense account, an hereditary fortune, or jackpot earnings, for instance.
This character does not exist, officially. No paperwork, photographs or other personally identifiable information exists in any known database or personal collection. A digital ghost.