Anime Nosebleeds

[Steve]

How would you best simulate this effect? I was thinking of using either a Susceptibility (to sight of female nudity) or a Physical Limitation. Anyone out there have any thoughts on this matter?

[Old Man]

The nose bleeds don't actually affect the characters in any way. It's just a special effect or something equally minor. They don't even clean it up after a gallon of blood shoots out of their nostrils. If you're playing an anime based game then you might let the character have a Physical Limitation: nose bleeds when seeing female nudity (May not act on phase 12).

[Pattern Ghost]

Distinctive Features: Virgin. Actually, it's really just a sight gag, but if you wanted to play it, just inflict nosebleeds on any male virgin characters.

[Steve]

Well, male characters have passed out from the sight of naked female flesh (as seen in The Samurai and Ranma 1/2 sometimes, although Ryoga Hibiki is the only character I can recall doing that). I was just uncertain if a Susceptibility was the better way to go to replicate this effect, since it can sometimes knock a male character senseless, or if a Physical Limitation of some sort (Physical Limitation: Virgin maybe?) was more appropriate.

[AnotherSkip]

Suscceptibility: X2 effects: from Pre based attacks by pretty girls only to cause unconsiousness or nosebleeds?

[austenandrews]

I knew there was a reason I don't watch anime ...

 

-AA

[Nato]

Originally posted by austenandrews

I knew there was a reason I don't watch anime ...

 

-AA

 

Why? Because your nose always bleeds when you see the naked female flesh on the screen?

[Shaun Hendricks]

It depends on the desired effect...

 

Steve:

Depends on the effect you are looking for...

 

If it is just a sight gag: it's a GM tool effect and normally occurs only when there is no combat going on or a large pause in the combat. Thus it has no real game impact.

 

If it can occur during combat and has effects, you get choices depending on the seriousness of the effect:

 

Not serious, usually to give the character a moment of pause:

x2 Vulnerable to Presence Attack from Pretty, scantilly clad females.

 

An 'attack' but can't truly hurt the character without a follow up strike by a foe:

1. Entangle (the character stands there stupified) based on INT (use EGO instead to simulate a lack of will if the characters problem is with his 'karma') with appropriate letchery minuses if the male is a letch.

2. INT Drain (simulates the character being incapable of doing anything but babbling incoherently and wandering about after the girl- Duh, Duh, Duh, kind of thing) An interesting possibility is if the girl doing this is the foe and does this intentionally to the male- you could make it a Transfer! In either case, the INT would come back REALLY quickly, like every phase, so the character could 'snap out of it'.

3. Physical Limitation: Could be used in nearly any version of this with a descriptive of what happens when the character is confronted thusly by the girl. Swap out infrequently, frequently, all the time with dice rolls: 8-, 11-, All the time: and Slightly, Moderately, Greatly are based on the effect with the latter two possibly heaping damage on the character which would take us into the next category.

 

An 'Attack' (note the capital "A"!) that causes damage and might be able to be used against even non-virginal males (comedy effect that some players might have thought themselves immune to! Funny in certain situations, especially if the male characters SO is right there!):

There should be a required COM minimum of the girl, as well as a PRE minimum here.

1. Energy Blast: Indirect, Area of Effect: Radius 4" (any further away and it likely wouldn't have the effect), Limitation: only characters sexually attracted to pretty girls, Stun Only, requires full phase (girl needs to flash and 'pose'), Attacker is ½ DCV while doing action. (many more options here but these are common ones I can think of.)

2. Ranged Killing Attack: See options in EB description. (Use the Killing Attack if you want to have BODY being done due to blood loss and not STUN.) An additional option here may be Penetrating so there is at least that initial 'Spray' of blood. You can use that on the EB as well, but that would kind of sit between these two attacks in concept.

 

Lastly: if the 'attack' is intentional (using any of the above effects except the first) I would definitely apply a bonus to a Seduction roll, and perhaps attach a mind control on the target if the attack is successful in any fashion. Thus the target may be unwilling to attack the girl. A good looking villian girl (Kodachi Kunou sort) might have this as a real power and a darned effectively nasty one at that!!!

 

I'm sure there's a million other ways folks can come up with (this being the Hero System and all where there is never just one way to do anything...) but I figured these might be common ways to try and pull it off.