Author Topic: Highlander: Celedor Character Generation (Read 2719 times)

Celedor · « **Reply #20 on:** April 29, 2010, 05:09:06 PM »

I'm fine with it either way, depends on how much drama you want on the home front. On the positive side he'd fit in better with a kid or kids.

CroakerDogBoy · « **Reply #21 on:** April 29, 2010, 05:15:57 PM »

Nah, it was more just a funny for me.

I'm pretty sure there would be enough shooting blanks so that being childless wouldn't affect his social situation.

Next step is Attributes, or you could look at advantages and disadvantages etc. I figure him for starting as a 100 point character.

CroakerDogBoy · « **Reply #22 on:** April 29, 2010, 05:26:44 PM »

He will have the automatic advantages of

Unaging 15
Disease-Resistant 5
Fast Regeneration 50
Regrowth 40

I believe these were the advantages we agreed upon to simulate the Immortals. That's 110 points.

So thinking 40 points over and above this advantage set? Making him a 150 point character.

Celedor · « **Reply #23 on:** April 29, 2010, 05:48:46 PM »

OK, start with stats?

CroakerDogBoy · « **Reply #24 on:** April 29, 2010, 05:54:30 PM »

ST:
DX:
IQ:
HT:

10 points across the board costs nothing.

Celedor · « **Reply #25 on:** April 30, 2010, 06:44:33 PM »

how many points of flaws?

CroakerDogBoy · « **Reply #26 on:** April 30, 2010, 06:46:22 PM »

Hmm. I think I'd stop at 50.

Celedor · « **Reply #27 on:** April 30, 2010, 06:49:08 PM »

I'll look it over now.

CroakerDogBoy · « **Reply #28 on:** April 30, 2010, 06:53:29 PM »

Celedor · « **Reply #29 on:** May 03, 2010, 03:40:03 PM »

OK, so cap out at 200 (150+50) but I don't have to take the full 50.

Any suggestions on the disads?

My thoughts:

Issues with Nomads seem likely, but not mandatory, at this early phase the villiage might be a permenant point with a lot of nomads coming through. . .not sure if there are cultural issues with established enemies.

How will time and disads play out? Like if he takes duty to family or duty to village will he have to pay those off once either is turned to dust by time?

CroakerDogBoy · « **Reply #30 on:** May 03, 2010, 03:42:32 PM »

I can see hunter/gatherer cultures raiding the outlying villages of the time, but not really the cities. A single wall would be enough to beat them with the limited weaponry and complete lack of seigecraft.

Family or dependent disadvantages will have to be bought off when they go away.

Celedor · « **Reply #31 on:** May 03, 2010, 04:00:25 PM »

I'll likely stick to a lot of psych disads then, like loyalty and quirks and the like. I may still go with some duty related ties.

So the BG is general farming ala agriculture/herding with perhaps some hunting tossed in.

There are no horses until the Aryans arrive, so no riding skills but animal handling and the like.

TL3?

CroakerDogBoy · « **Reply #32 on:** May 03, 2010, 04:19:39 PM »

Oh heck no. Tech level 0-1 for overall. Still using stone axes and such. Bronze is not even in play yet. Medicine would be cl0oser to 1.

Celedor · « **Reply #33 on:** May 03, 2010, 04:35:07 PM »

Just wondering what TL to attach to skills like "Armory" and the like.

Use TL1?

How do those work over time? once 1980 rolls around and we're battling with samurai swords at wrestling matches at Madison Square Garden, would these characters end up having a slew of the same skill smeared out over a bunch of TLs?

CroakerDogBoy · « **Reply #34 on:** May 03, 2010, 04:56:40 PM »

Hmmm. Why yes, yes I believe they would. That would be the most logical thing from my point of view.

My thoughts are, either you take someone's head who has the same skill at a higher tech level, and you just update your tech level, or you would have to buy it all over again.

What is your opinion?

Celedor · « **Reply #35 on:** May 03, 2010, 05:02:45 PM »

Depends on what the TLs mean. . .no books here at work, what do the TLs translate to mean?

CroakerDogBoy · « **Reply #36 on:** May 03, 2010, 05:22:24 PM »

Tech Levels – General
Historical Comparison
0. Stone Age: fire, lever, language
1. Bronze Age (Athens): wheel, writing,
agriculture
2. Iron Age (Rome): keystone arch
3. Medieval (pre-1450): steel weapons,
mathematics with zero
4. Renaissance/Colonial (1450-1700):
gunpowder, printing
5. Industrial Revolution (1701-1900):
mass production, steam power, telegraph
6. World War I/World War II (1901-
1950): cars, airplanes, radio
7. Modern (1951-2000): nuclear energy,
computer, laser, rockets
8. Spacefaring (2001-2050?): slowerthan-
light space travel, fusion power,
implants
9. Starfaring: faster-than-light star travel,
sentient computers, longevity, deteronic
frombotzer
10. Antimatter: antimatter power, artificial
gravity, slow FTL radio
11. Force: force screens, tractor beams,
fast FTL radio
12. Gravitic: contragravity, grav compensators,
personal force screens
13. Worldbuilding: full terraforming of
planets
14. Dysonian: construction of worlds,
ringworlds and so on
15. MT: matter transmission, cosmic
power
16+. As you wish

CroakerDogBoy · « **Reply #37 on:** May 03, 2010, 05:22:42 PM »

Transportation
0. Feet; canoes; sledges
1. Horseback; horse-drawn carts; sailing
rafts and small galleys
2. Horseback with a saddle; oceangoing
galleys
3. Horseback with a saddle and stirrups;
sailing ships
4. Fully-rigged ships; hot-air balloons
5. Steamships; railroads; zeppelins
6. Automobiles; aircraft; ocean liners;
submarines
7. Jet aircraft; space shuttles; mag-lev
monorails; hovercraft
8. Spaceships; orbital towers; ballistic
airliners
9-11. Faster-than-light star travel; space
yachts
12. Contragravity vessels and personal
flying belts
15. Matter transmission
16+. POOF. You’re there.

CroakerDogBoy · « **Reply #38 on:** May 03, 2010, 05:23:01 PM »

Weapons and Armor
0. Fists and stone weapons.
1. Metal-tipped spears and arrows;
bronze swords; leather armor
2. Iron swords; shields; scale armor
3.Steel weapons; lances, flails, crossbows;
plate and chainmail; castles
4. Black-powder muskets; cannon; sailing
warships
5. Ironclad warships; dynamite; repeating
handguns
6. Battleships; tanks; machine-guns;
fighter aircraft; fission bombs; flak jackets
7. Nuclear missiles; atomic submarines;
jet fighters; Kevlar
8. Cybertanks; orbital lasers; bioweapons;
BPC combat armor and battlesuit;
reflec; Gauss needlers
9. Starships; genius bombs; flamers;
particle-beam blasters; stunners
10. Nerve pistols; superheavy combat
armor; disruption beams
11. Force screens; personal force
shields; tractor beams; antimatter missiles
12. Grav tanks; personal force screens
13. Planetary missiles
14+. POOF. You’re dead.
Power
0. Slaves
1. Horses and mules; water wheels
2. Windmills
3. Horses with horse-collars
4. (No significant improvement)
5. Steam engines; direct current
6. Hydroelectric power; alternating
current
7. Fission and hot fusion; solar
8.Fission/electric; orbital-collected
solar power
9. Cold fusion/electric
10-12. Antimatter
13. “Pocket” antimatter
14. Total conversion
15. Cosmic power
Medicine
0. None
1. Supportive treatment; herbs
2. Bleeding the sick; chemical remedies
3. Amputations and crude prosthetics
4. Experiments that killed the patients
5. Germ theory of disease; anesthetics;
vaccines
6. Major surgery; antibiotics
7. Organ transplants
8. Cloning; simple implants; bionics;
plastiskin
9. Longevity; panimmunity; braintapes;
complex implants; suspended animation;
automedic
10. Genericillin; Torpine
11. Sensa-skin
12. Full panimmunity; regeneration
16+. POOF. You’re healed.

Celedor · « **Reply #39 on:** May 03, 2010, 05:27:51 PM »

So we're really TL0? Or does it vary by category, like you can have TL0 weapons and TL1 medicine kinda things?

I like the TL4 medicine, gonna buy me like 10 levels of that.

Makes sense that with TL0 armory you can maintain or sharpen a flint spear, while at TL3 a steel spear, and at TL5 a rifle. . . .

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