Urban Fantasy Setting: Here There Be Monsters

[Killer Shrike]

Don't forget that as it currently stands Psychics have AP and RC limits:

In a Here There Be Monsters campaign, Psychics have the following restrictions:

* Psychic Power Real Cost Limit: ((Base Points + Max Complications + Experience Points) / 4)
* Psychic Power Active Point Limit: ((Base Points + Max Complications + Experience Points) / 2)
* Power Frameworks:
o Elemental Controls (5e) and Unified Powers (6e) are allowed
o Once a character's (Base Points + Max Complications + Experience Points) equals or exceeds 200 points, they can purchase a Multipower for their Psionic abilities
+ A character upgrading to a Multipower can choose to collapse an existing Elemental Control or set of Unified Powers into their new Multipower Pool as they prefer


In Demon Hunter FBI, I allowed Suppressors to be a special case due to the cost of building such an ability properly, but they had to take a specific Package Deal. This is around 12 years old and from 4e, but the package was:


Suppressor Package
Skills Cost
Unbelief: 4d6 Suppress vs all
Paranormal/Dimensional powers all at once (+2),
Radius (+1), 0 END, Continuous, Uncontrolled
(+2), Invisible to Normal Senses (+1), No Range
(-½), Always On (-½), Wielder Unaware of
Power (-1)
56

Doubt: Mental Defense +10
10

Physical Lim: Will Not Remember Paranormal
Activities; They are Blotted Out and ‘Revised’
Subconsciously After the Event Takes Place
(Freq, Sli)
-10

Psych: Total Skeptic (VCom, Total)
-25

Package Bonus
-1
Total Cost 30

Optional
var +xd6 Suppress


I could come up with a similar package for 6e and allow Suppressors to still be a special case exempt from the normal RC / AP caps but not permitted to purchase any other sort of psychic ability.

[Killer Shrike]

Tracking the characters that are yet to be posted...

No HDC:

Anotherskip
http://www.herogames.com/forums/show...28#post1958828 Professional

yes HDC:

AnotherSkip
Allosius Jones - Mystic / Professional - NPC

Panpiper
Shannon O'Grady - Professional - NPC

[The Rose]

Anotherskip
http://www.herogames.com/forums/show...07#post1957607 Believer

Post 113 has my transfer of this character.

http://www.herogames.com/forums/show...72#post1958472 Innatus

Post 123 has my transfer of this character.

La Rose.

[Manic Typist]

Ok...so,

1) Psionics and Magic are two different things in HtbM -> Psionics is purely internal, Magic is external.
2) a person that is deliberately manipulating or interacting with magical forces is by definition a Mystic of some sort. Believers do not conceptualize what they do in such a fashion; they believe that the supernatural things that happen around them (if they even notice them or perceive them to be supernatural in the first place) is the hand of God or the Gods or whatever it is that they worship.

So, in the case of a "Atheist Believer", on the face of it, it seems unlikely. Your character description is totally doable and could exist in HtbM, but they really seem to fit the Mystic model. You could also go the other way with such a concept, trimming the ability to do Magic themselves, and make a Psionic Suppressor as described in the Psychic document -> they suppress the Supernatural subconsciously to reinforce their logical disbelief.

Ack! My bad! I forgot a Believer technically uses Magic. The Psionic Suppressor route sounds much more likely... and actually could make for a fun, quirky character. Someone who might vaguely annoy everyone around him for his disbelief of what they know to be true... but they can't prove him wrong because things stop working when he's around...

I think you will need to make a decision of some type for Suppressors, since apparently their schtick will end up costing a great deal. How do you feel about permitting an additional Limitation of something along the lines of Only When Conscious (probably -1/2 to -3/4)?

[Killer Shrike]

Post 113 has my transfer of this character.



Post 123 has my transfer of this character.

La Rose.

You caught me in mid-edit, flipping around grabbing sheets updating links and whatnot

[Killer Shrike]

Ack! My bad! I forgot a Believer technically uses Magic. The Psionic Suppressor route sounds much more likely... and actually could make for a fun, quirky character. Someone who might vaguely annoy everyone around him for his disbelief of what they know to be true... but they can't prove him wrong because things stop working when he's around...

I think you will need to make a decision of some type for Suppressors, since apparently their schtick will end up costing a great deal. How do you feel about permitting an additional Limitation of something along the lines of Only When Conscious (probably -1/2 to -3/4)?

Yes; in the Demon Hunter FBI campaign one of the primary PC's was Jerrin Kole, a Suppressor. The "Scully Effect", as we called it, was great for laughs and situational dramedy.

I'll try to get the Suppressor Package slapped together before the end of the weekend.

[AnotherSkip]

The history is interesting. I have some thoughts on the unification of Germany under Prussian rule in the 1870's, the alliance between the Austrian Emperor and the Magyars to create the Austria-Hungary Empire, Italy trying to stay out of WW1 until it was clear who was winning, how Germany tricked/forced the Ottomans on to thier side, The Czar manipulated by Rasputin leading to the Russian Revolution... a subtext (or hidden history) could tie it all in.

I could kill many hours speculating, but I'd need some bread, cheese and wine* to do it right.

*a pretty girl to be impressed would be useful too, but not required.

there was a note in buffy about the sleeping habits of prussian generals... (inferenced by me to indicate they were possibly vampires and a slayer may have changed the world...)


La Rose the limitation not vs called shots should have the descriptor of not vs called heart shots. not not vs called shots, Huuuuge difference IMNSHO....

Ah and the Gear Pool calculation is way off. the normal gear secion does not cost one for one but instead costs 1/5 because it is normal real world accesible gear and specifically not Professsional pool material.

[Killer Shrike]

Michaila Bast is up. You might notice I took her in a very different direction.

[Killer Shrike]

Jake Donaldson is up.

[Killer Shrike]

I have an idea for an Innatus.

Silas Cimmeriad: a heavy metal singer who got involved in a dark cult, ended up possessed by a daemon named Draimaniel, but ultimately managed to win control of his mind back and cage the daemon within himself -- effectively Binding the daemon. Now he focuses his efforts on saving other doomed souls who are possessed, in the sway of a cult, or suffering from the depredations of dark powers. He has some supernatural abilities based upon his mastery of the daemon within himself, focused mostly through his singing but including some basic physical advantages.

He should also have unusually high EGO and PRE.

I'm almost done with this character, but real life keeps interfering.

[Killer Shrike]

Cyrus Cimmeriad

[Panpiper]

Cyrus Cimmeriad

I was drinking a glass of water when I read; "PS: Upholsterer". The results were not pretty. ;-)

[Killer Shrike]

Jennifer Hale

[Killer Shrike]

I was drinking a glass of water when I read; "PS: Upholsterer". The results were not pretty. ;-)

What can I say, I'm a natural entertainer.

[DusterBoy]

Michaila Bast is up. You might notice I took her in a very different direction.

Michalla Bast so looks like Michelle Rodriguez!