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[Dwarmin]

Hmmm... if she had previous experience with the supernatural, she seems likely to go the hunter route, but since I doubt werewolves drop much pocket change, the mercenary aspect looks most likely.

She got mouths to feed and opiates to take, after all.

The parts you cut off the werewolves, on the other hand, are very valuable if you can find a buyer.

[kilakan]

I'd be interested in joining if you are still taking more players?  I'll pick away at the sheet creation while I am at work today if so.

[Dwarmin]

I'd be interested in joining if you are still taking more players?  I'll pick away at the sheet creation while I am at work today if so.

I'm stress testing the system, so I'm taking as many players that sign up, within reason.

[GiglameshDespair]

We'll have enough monster hunters to deploy Soviet wave tactics.
"I sent wave after wave of my own men at them, until the vampires reached their kill limits and shut down."

[Dwarmin]

We'll have enough monster hunters to deploy Soviet wave tactics.
"I sent wave after wave of my own men at them, until the vampires reached their kill limits and shut down."

*GM resets kill limits accidentally*

[Harry Baldman]

Ah, here we go. Only took about 5 hours longer than expected!

Spoiler: The Breaking Points of Agris Bezverkhy (click to show/hide)

What is the worst thing Agris has ever done?
In his distant youth, at a time when his home was ruled by foreign influences, he once felt an all too unbearable amount of spite for one he once thought his friend, Artyom was his name, and in a fit of singular stupidity he let slip a salient fact to the wrong ear, and the one he now knows to have been his one true friend was never seen again.

What is the worst thing the man can imagine himself doing?
One day he will lose something important once again, this he knows. An ill-chosen course of action will rob him of a friend, a life, a family member or even a thing he has treasured. It will be his fault, for he will have failed to see the obvious consequence, or have a very convenient excuse. All in the name of making things better. He has failed thus far, and will continue to fail until either he succeeds, or, as he thinks in his more introspective moments, he meets a bitter end.

What is the worst thing he can imagine someone else doing?
Killing a man and his family for payment - a petty exchange of money for so many lives. A rapist or a radical can be understood to some degree, but a professional killer has trespassed into a sort of inhumanity that the man simply cannot abide, for a murder for money is not the act of someone who is insane or deluded - to do such a thing, one must traverse a path of sanity into depths darker than any mere lunatic could hope to achieve.

What has our fine friend forgotten?
His one true friend was never seen again, most say. This is not quite true. Agris did see him once more, in the dacha that his friend spent his summers in. It had lain empty for the longest time when Agris visited it shortly before his departure. And here he saw dear Artyom - he was in the small, decrepit bedroom. He was in the walls, in the floor, all over the place, a fine layer of him being the only remnant of whatever had come for him in the night, a stain on the place that had driven his mother out and that no amount of effort could erase. Agris has never told anyone of this, and over the years it has become like a dream, to the point that the man himself is solidly convinced he did not see any of this. But deep in him the kernel of realization still resides, ever-changing in his dreams as his mind struggles to comprehend and digest the truth lying beneath.

What is the most traumatic thing that has ever happened to the poor man?
The loss of his legs, oddly, would not be the thing - he was dead drunk when it happened, and chemically numbed for weeks afterward. But it did happen around that time when he was still in the hospital, in a chemical haze, occasionally visited by his mother. It was on Christmas, 1991. The Soviet Union had dissolved, bringing an end to the Cold War and the terror of impending doom that defined it. And when he saw this on the news on the very next day, something dawned on him. This means nothing, he knew for a moment, more instinctively than consciously, not that he had an easy time of stringing coherent thoughts together. Though the face of it is gone, they are still there. Who they are, he had not ever known. But a deep feeling of impending otherness came upon him as he realized one more thing. They are here, too. They have always been here.

This, too, he did not fully remember later. And the changed man he became was ascribed to the stroke he had suffered that night - the doctors thought him lucky to have been in a hospital at the time. And depending on your view of the future, they may have even been right.

[Dwarmin]

Alright! I like that Harry, it's good...

Also, Gilgs sheet.

http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=570511

Her merits are based around her resources-not much, but better than the rest of you-and also a safe place, which means she has a safehouse with traps and alarms, off the grid and out of the way. A good place to sleep without being eaten in the night!

I've also given her a bunch of brawl-related skills. She'll have to get her Dexterity up if she wants to become a martial artists, but right now she can toss a punch with the best of them. Most notably, her Iron Skin makes her tough to knock out or injure-she can spend willpower to turn lethal damage into bashing (or, non-lethal) damage, and gains armor against bashing damage normally. She's skilled in Defensive Combat, which lets her use her Brawling skill in place of her defense during a scuffle, as long as she's wielding a weapon-and Street Fighting, which currently allows her to apply penalties to anyone she hits in a melee, and allows her to to the higher of her wits or dex when dodging-the second one isn't terribly useful right now, but if she upgrades those stats she will get more use of it. Mostly, it's a pre-req that can unlock higher tiers of street-fighting abilities.

It should be noted, being blind in one eye is a tangible disadvantage! Normally, you get -3 to vision related rolls and half defense. Since she's lived with this disability for awhile and has learned to cope, I've nulled the defense penalty and she just gets -1 to vision related rolls. Which is still alot of things, to be honest.

...

And if you're wondering 'Why would I take a flaw anyway? There's no minmax in that!', flaws increase your rate of EXP gain during the game.

[GiglameshDespair]

Also, Gilgs sheet.

Spoiler: Gragghhhh (click to show/hide)

Aside from that, seems good (though I'm not sure I'd be able to tell if it was bad...)

[Dwarmin]

Any questions about the system, just ask!

[GiglameshDespair]

Do using brass knuckles still count as unarmed?

[Dwarmin]

Do using brass knuckles still count as unarmed?

Yeah, you can use them along with the brawl skill. Ideally, you can sacrifice damage dice to dual wield with fists and bat.

[GiglameshDespair]

If only I could combine the two and make bat-knuckles.

Do using brass knuckles still count as unarmed?

Yeah, you can use them along with the brawl skill. Ideally, you can sacrifice damage dice to dual wield with fists and bat.

So how does dual wielding work?

Would I get two attacks, one with each, but each does less damage?
Or would I just have the option each turn of choosing the weapon I attack with?

How would something like a trench knife work?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Dwarmin]

The usual RPG dual wielding rules.

~It's a big action, so you can't do anything else on that turn.
~You get two attacks, but with less accuracy. The first attack is at -1 dice, while the off-hand is at -2. You can ease the penalty with the ambidextrous merit, which would erase the odd-hand penalty.

So, just smacking someone with your bat, you will roll a total of 6 dice-three for your weapon damage, and three for your weaponry skill.

Smacking someone with the bat and off-hand with your fist would do 5 dice for the bat, and you would roll three dice for the fist, or 5 bat dice and 3 fist dice, which equates to two extra attacks.

Or you could switch it up, and do 4 fist dice and 4 bat dice. You get a small bonus for landing an unarmed attack every round on an enemy.

Ambidextrous would give you a bonus two attacks.

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And there's a merit to cover the other thing-it also lets you hide small weapons on yourself and use them in a brawl. It would probably be more in line for you. Note, it's not any more mechanically dangerous than just wielding knuckles-but you can do lethal damage, instead of bashing damage. Also, lets you attack from ambush, even in a crowd. I would likely increase your subterfuge.

Shiv
Effect: Your character carries small, concealable weapons for use in a tussle. Rolls to detect the concealed weapon suffer your character’s Weaponry score as a penalty. With the one dot version, she can conceal a weapon with a 0 damage rating. The two-dot version can conceal a 1 damage rating weapon. Your character may use the Brawl Skill to use this weapon.

Do you want to be a more offensive character? I can exchange your toughness merits for more slashy slashy.

[GiglameshDespair]

I can see how being able to shank people secretly could be useful, but not dying is also good.

Stick with what I have, I think.

[Dwarmin]

Okay, that's the end of waiting. We should have all the character we need. I will begin to summon something like an OP soon...