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[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- Gaston Phillips <gaston at math.sunysb.edu> wrote:
> Basically, I'd been reading through the two UA books
> I /do/ have
> (Statosphere and LG$) when a concept occurred to me.
>  I won't even pretend
> it's not cribbed from this list.
> 
> The character needs a name.  Something really
> american.  Jake Burton.
> Jack Slade.  John Savage.  Something pulp.  

I always thought Marlowe was a good pulp name, either
that or Melvin Weinberg (the con artist behind Abscam)

> 
> Anyway. The concept.
> 
> Raised in L.A.  His parents were gaffers and foley
> artists. Grew up as an
> assistant to a famous Stage Magician. The taste of
> celebrity left him with
> a hunger for gambling and the acoutrements of
> wealth. As a teenager, he
> started working as a stunt double. He fell onto hard
> times. Ended up
> working as a getaway driver. One of the magician's
> old contacts hired him
> for a long run of jobs, during which he learned the
> basics of
> entropomancy. On his own, he struck out as a
> Grifter, working the short
> con, and became an avatar of the Two Faced Man.
> 
> Picked up on the run, he works for The New
> Inquisition, but is still
> dodging a string of debts and markers out. He just
> can't resist flashy
> cars asking to be stolen, drag racing for high
> stakes, or gambling for any
> stakes at all.
> 
> Body 60: Stunt Man (Gen'l Ath) 50, Stage Fighting 40
> (Struggle)
> Speed 60: Escape Artist (Dodge) 30, Getaway Driver
> 45, The Way of the Gun
> 15
> Mind 35: Seen a Lot of Movies (Gen'l Education) 15,
> Counts Cards (Notice) 
>     30, Hotwire 20
> Soul 65: Short Con (Lie) 30, *Ent'mancy* 30,
> Avatar:2FM 20, Hustle (Charm)
> 15
> 
> Opinions?  Is it kosher to fudge the basic stats
> like that to make them,
> well, different?
> 
I suspect, in UA, it's kosher to write a few details
about your character on the back of a napkin and just
make rolls whenever you feel like it.

=====
-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
The Electronic Nation of Yokeltania:
http://www.geocities.com/yokeltania/

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