[UA] Mess with this character, a lot

[Ja ke]

Well there's other ways to up a person's skills and stats quickly, 
"power-ups" you could say...

There is the old Cannabalism route, where the character can eat the brains 
of a person with a better skill or mind stat to aquire a few quick points of 
skill, which means that the PC has to first find, then kill and eat (with 
all the various stress checks that entails) a person with the appropriate 
skills.

Or the old demon time share scheme, where the PC gets a boost to their soul 
stat and/or wanted skills in exchange for the demon taking total control of 
the body for brief periods.

Or rituals that could allow the character to flip/flop a skill (though the 
low soul stat kinda puts a nix on that).

Then theres the old mechanomancy/epederimancy/non-specific-mojo Mcguffin 
that let's you give the character a stat/skill boost but that also give you 
free reign to just set off one of the character's passions when ever you 
like (or something else equally evil).

You could even make it the result of a special order (have all the players 
gain a neat skill as well though, fairs fair if there isn't going to be a 
down side)

>From: Thuvasa3 <thuvasa3 at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
>To: The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
>Subject: RE: [UA] Mess with this character, a lot
>Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 05:23:29 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>--- Ja ke <high_healedblues at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The sign is going to start talking to him at
> > somepoint right? The PC's
> > mother come back to haunt him maybe, mocking and
> > nagging him in equal
> > amounts.
>
>Might, but I already pulled that schtick in the intro
>session to the game.  so they've sort of seen it
>before.
>
> > If you could some how make him start trying to cut
> > the sign off his body you
> > could probably get him to shift towards epederimancy
> > over time as the sign
> > keeps reappearing on other parts of his body, and
> > slowly ever so slowly he
> > realises that he was an epederimancer all along and
> > the sign was just his
> > old suppressed obsession reasserting itself.
>
>The problem is, when he made his character, he swore
>he wasn't going to do any magic of any kind, so he
>went low on soul and whatnot, and tried to make a
>brawler.  I.e. He tried to min/max and make a good
>fighter.  Which he did.  But, after the first session,
>he figured out that having a street fighter just
>really isn't a good idea in a game where, more often
>than not, the "bad guys" are going to shoot you at
>best.  So he's really screwed himself as far as having
>any kind of adept character.
>
> > Isn't there some seeker of knowledge specific avatar
> > in statosphere?
>
>Yeah, that's the Scholar, I think.  I am nearly
>certain; however, that he wants the Pilgrim due to
>being able to flip/flop a skill related to his quest.
>I.e. My prediction is that he is going to try to work
>in a gun skill, and that he wants to be the Pilgrim so
>he can flip/flop (as that was a specific example
>described in the book).
>
>Which is another example of missing the point.  I.e.
>(spoiler for Bi3P) Bill Toge made two police officers
>*explode.*  You can have your flip flopping roll all
>you want, but when people can make you explode...
>boom!
>
>Jonathan
>
>
>
>
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