Greenies

[Citizen Keen]

I've always had trouble with the Distinctive Features Limitation in Star HERO - you get points for having a scar on your face, but wings and an exoskeleton are normal. Then I figured it out.

If you look different from your race, you get DF points (scars, birthmarks, whatever). If you look the same, you don't.

However, other character can take the following disad:

All Them Greenies Look the Same: Infrequently, Slightly (5 pts.)

The character has trouble distinguishing between members of another species. The character may choose one species in addition to his own (A Perseid could choose Humans in addition to Perseids, for example) that they are able to distinguish between. For all other species (Fex and and Mon'Dabi, for example) the character must make a PER roll at -3 to distinguish between similar looking members (by similar, I mean same gender (if it matters), same color, etc.)

This explains why a Perseid doesn't get point for knobs on their forehead, but a human with a scar does.

Thoughts?

-cK

[Wyrm Ouroboros]

I think I like that; very good, Mr. Spock. Very good indeed.

... Mr. Spock... you are a 'mister', right? Not a 'miss'?? (Damn greenies all look the same...)

[RadeFox]

In my campaign a disad like that would be worth closer to 10 pts (Either infrequent, major, ot frequent, slight), unless the vast majority of encounters were going to be with only the two 'identifiable' races.

Very few sentients take kindly to continuously being mistaken for someone else, especially sexual mis-labeling. Think of an Aslan male from Traveller being called a female.....

[Citizen Keen]

Originally posted by RadeFox
Think of an Aslan male from Traveller being called a female.

Never played Traveller, but I can see what you mean. Maybe it could be ten for it even worse. Five if you can tell gender, and (the alien equivalent of) asians from hispanics from caucasians, but can't tell between the (alien equivalent of) two hispanic males or two caucasian females; and ten if you can't even distinguish between "race" and gender.

[Lupus]

Can make finding competent witnesses harder, when investigating crimes.

From Babylon 5:
"Can you describe your attacker, Captain?"
(pause)
"Bald, with a bone on his head!"