BaseRaiders

[clockworkjoe]

Put the handouts on the Base Raiders site and added a list of Common Skills as another handout.

http://www.baseraiders.com/2014/07/05/skill-trapping-diagram-and-other-pdf-handouts/

[Zombieneighbours]

Just a clarification of skill costing

Common skills = 1 point per rating.

Unique and strange = skill purchase cost+ 1 point per rating.

Example:

So if a character where to take "upsilon Drug user" +3, it would cost 8 points(5 for access to upsilon drug user and 3 for the +3)

Is that correct?

[Teuthic]

No, it would cost 7. The initial purchase automatically gives you a +1, then it costs one point each to raise it past +1.

[Claive]

Isn't the Boiling Point kickstarter supposed to start "Soon" (TM)?

[clockworkjoe]

Isn't the Boiling Point kickstarter supposed to start "Soon" (TM)?

After No Soul Left Behind finishes, of course.

[Claive]

Alias:
Name:
Group Affiliation: Team Delta

It all comes down to the fact that, deep down everyone truly wants to be a villain, whether they want to admit it or not.  They want the freedom to do what they want without having to bend a knee to the throne of public opinion.  They dream of rebellion in their heart of hearts and that dream is always there, just out of reach.  You want to punch that one boss that just can’t stop talking or stand up to that bully or talk to that one person you have your eye on but you can’t… you feel that you shouldn’t… you would have to face the consequences of those choices.  That’s why you have always wanted to be a villain… it means that you can do whatever you want and never have to say you’re sorry.

As a child your hero was a psychic villain. No one but you even remembers his name now.  You would always listen to the radio when there were super battle warnings hoping that it would be them and that they would win for once.

You dreamed of becoming like your (anti) hero, of developing psychic talent but you live  in a world where the “good guys’” psychics can detect a low level psychic practicing from across the globe, teleport to their location and “fix” them so they can never be psychic again….  All of the news shows said so.  It seemed to  pay to use discretion or… prudence.

Years ago you had read all of the “how to” manuals, watched all the interviews with psychic villains or their henchmen, but you never tried to develop any powers, who would?  Without a villain “shielding” you during training there isn’t any chance you would get away with it and all their henchmen seem to be low level guys who burn out or get caught and then get “burned out.”

When you heard that the heroes had disappeared… at first you didn’t believe it… but as time went on… and people started talking about base raiding… a long buried hope and a burning obsession started to slowly awaken and then grow within you.  There isn’t anyone to stop you from perusing your dream now… it was time to take the first step…. You stopped going to work, you sold everything you ever owned, you have been practicing 14 hours a day… you have made progress but you have learned that a lot of the books you had read were garbage… you’re having to make up your training regimen as you go along... It’s not at all what you expected, but you will be damned if your going to apologize for your choices.

Aspects
Adept:  Self Taught Psychic
Background: Collage Dropout
Conviction: Being a villain means you never have to say you’re sorry.
Aspect: I had a feeling that something like this might happen...
Aspect: If you are outgunned, gtfu.
Aspect: People like to talk to me.
Aspect: If its public knowledge regarding psi powers, programs or phenomena, I know about it.
Complication [Major]: Anything to stop this headache

Skills: (25/25)
Great (+4): Psychic Training Regimen (E)
Good (+3): Empathy
Fair (+2): Athletics
Average (+1): Academics, Arcana, Computers, Presence

Base Refresh  Minus Power tier Minus Gifts: = Adjusted Refresh
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Unique and Strange Skills:

Psychic Training Regimen
Power Tier: Extraordinary (-1 refresh)
Complication [Major]: Anything to stop this headache
Menace + Unusual: I am authority + Psychic, Willpower + Psychic (6)
Notice + Psychic (2)
Examine + Psychic, Information + Psychic (5)
Cost: 12 skill points (5 trappings, 3 connections, 6 extras, -2 drawback)
Description: Your psychic training is finally paying off.  You had heard that developing psi powers resulted in headaches and you hoped by not using psi drugs that you could avoid them, no such luck.  On the plus side you notice things without looking for them, know things you couldn’t have known.  You can intimidate people psychically by projecting the dread of authority at them and you are exceptionally resistant to mental attacks and intimidation.

[clockworkjoe]

I like that character, strong investigation focus, which is often lacking in PC builds. He could be the scout/detective who finds bases to raid and then goes all rogue/trapfinder when inside the base.

[Claive]

I like that character, strong investigation focus, which is often lacking in PC builds. He could be the scout/detective who finds bases to raid and then goes all rogue/trapfinder when inside the base.

What effect if any does the +psychic do for the willpower trapping?  I know its necessary (because if you add it to one trapping it gets added to all of them) but don't really see what it adds to the trapping...

[clockworkjoe]

Psychic generally means undetectable power usage and in some cases, irresistable (shoot + psychic can't be blocked with conventional body armor usually)

Psychic + Willpower is generally useless, unless the GM specifically says that you must have it to resist psychic + menace or similar attacks.

[Claive]

Alias: Dream Girl
Name: Isabelle Frump
Group Affiliation: Independent

For as long as you can remember you have had an incredibly detailed dream life and in many ways it is more important to you than the waking world. This is because you are one of the children of Nod. One night shortly after Ragnarock your dreams changed, you found one of the doors to the waking world and now (at least while your waking self sleeps) you may wander the waking world with all the powers and glory of dreams. 

Aspects
Magical Being: Every night I go abroad / Afar into the land of Nod.
Background: Dream interpreting Psychologist.
Conviction: If you have enough treasure you can make your dreams come true.
Aspect: Hermetic magic is for chumps.
Aspect: My therapist says I need to...
Aspect: Technology just doesn’t work right around me.
Aspect / Transform: So terribly boring / Floating Glittering Dream Woman.
Major Complication (-2): Am I awake or is this a phantasm?

Skills: 25/25
Great (+4):  Dream Magic [A]
Good (+3): Stealth
Fair (+2): Academics
Average (+1):  Bureaucracy

Base Fate Points minus 6.

Unique and Strange Skills:
Dream Magic
Power Tier: Ascendant (-4 Refresh)
Major Complication (-2): Am I awake or is this a phantasm?
Major Snag (-2): Must fall asleep to transform and if something wakes you up you lose your powers.
Major Transform (-2): Floating Glittering Dream Woman

Inspire, Convince, Conversation, Insight, Willpower (5-3-0)
Move + Unusual: Phase Through Matter + Unusual: Float like a cloud, Physical Force + Range + Unusual: Physics need not apply
Resist Damage (4-5-4)

Cost: 15 skill points (9 Trappings, 8 Connectors, 4 Extras-6 flaws)
Description:  When you fall asleep you may choose to transform into your dream avatar.  While in this form you are incredibly compelling, insightful and confident.  Additionally, you can move through mater and float like a cloud.

Your dream avatar has an entourage of fairies and you may ask them to move things for you.  They allow you to move objects from place to place regardless of the physics involved (i.e. you can pick up a car from the top without damaging it, etc.)

Unlike normal people, who are blind to the dreaming world while awake and blind to the waking world while asleep, You see both regardless of if you are asleep or awake.  Sometimes this gets complicated when you forget which is which.  Once you hit Joe from accounting over the head with a water bottle whilst screaming that he was the Dark Sorcerer Kaveraxis... yeah... that was embarrassing later.

Gifts (-2 fate points)
Companion - Aphra "Empress of the Moon" the Dream Cat - Quality 3
+1 Stealth, +2 Burglary, +3 Deceit [ S ] (3 boxes in each stress track)

Quality +3 (2)
Independent: (1)
Keeping Up: (1)
Empowered X2 (4)
Summonable (1)

[Claive]

Alias: Palisade
Name:
Group Affiliation: Independent Adventurer

Aspects
Alien: Swashbuckler from SPAAAAAAAAAAACE!
Background: Grew bored of a space utopia.
Conviction:Mischief?  I call it Adventure!
Aspect: How did that even explode?!
Aspect: I will stab you in the front with a sword in your hand.
Aspect: If I don't know how, I'll wing it.
Major Complication (-2): I must abide by the will of Panache
Minor Complication (-1): There is a huge bounty on my head.

Skills: 30/30
Great (+4):
Good (+3):  Trained by a Master [ S ]
Fair (+2): Empathy
Average (+1): Initiate in the Cult of Panache [ S ]

Base Fate Points minus 4.

Unique and Strange Skills:
Initiate of the Cult of Panache
Power Tier: Superhuman (-2 Refresh)
Major Complication (-2): I must abide by the will of Panache

Climb, Leap, Move + Unusual: Acrobat extraordinaire (3)(2)(1)
Information (1)
Menace, Inspire, Willpower (3)(2)
Transport (1)
Cost: 16 skill points (13 Trappings, 4 Connectors, 1 Extras,-2 flaws)
Description: You worship the Godling Panache.  He grants you powers thematically appropriate to his spheres of influence so long as you offer up the proper prayers and act in his name.  Choosing to disobey him would result in terrible consequences.

Trained by a Master of the Lightning Sword
Power Tier: Superhuman (-2 Refresh)
Minor Complication (-1): There is a huge bounty on my head.
Minor Focus:(-1):

Strike + Unusual: My sword is made of lightning, Parry + Unusual: Can Parry Energy that one is not usually able to parry  + Unusual: Can parry Ranged attacks (2)(3)
Information (1)
Initiative [Physical](2)
Cost: 8 skill points (5 Trappings, 2 Connectors, 3 Extras,-2 flaws)
Description: A master lightning swordsman has trained you in the art of lightning blade dueling.  The lightning blade is like a part of your arm.  You can parry laser blasts and antimatter bolts.

Gifts (-0 Refresh)

Modified: 10/1/2014

[clockworkjoe]

Why does Dream Girl have Willpower + Unusual? Willpower is only used to defend against composure attacks, so what does the extra do?

Palisade is cool, but Parry is weaker than resist damage or dodge - you need +unusual to parry ranged attacks etc.

[Claive]

The unusual makes it so that once you resist a composure attack from a source, it can't try again that scene via the justification, that in dreams once you face your fear it stops being scary.  Or rather it can try again but you get progressively more resistant to it.

With Palisade, I ran out of points :-(  connecting things is expensive.

[Claive]

I am just having fun making these...

Alias: Dr. Doomsday Device
Name:
Group Affiliation: Team Delta

Aspects
Super-Genius: Talent Borrows, Genius Steals, Super-Genius turns it into a death ray.
Villainous Past: One of Omegas outdated “backup” clones.
Conviction: Prepare humanity for the coming storm, at any cost.
Conviction: My only limits are my own ambition and hubris.
Complication [Major]: Not the FBIs most wanted, but you’re on all the same lists
Aspect: Laws only apply to the masses and I am above them.
Aspect: My finger is on THE switch!
Aspect: You think you are a supervillain?! *mauahahahahaha*You are mediocre at best.

Skills: 30/30
Great (+4):
Good (+3): Third Degree Doctorate from the University of Omega [ S ]
Fair (+2): Stealth
Average (+1): Academics, Alertness, Athletics, Presence, Doomsday Device [G]

Base Refresh  (8 spent)
 
Unique and Strange Skills:
Third Degree Doctorate from the University of Omega
Power Tier: Superhuman (-2 refresh)
Conviction: My only limits are my own ambition and hubris.

Examine, Information, Research (3-2), Security, Notice (2-1), Transport (1)
Dismantle, Repair, Craft, Workspace (4)(2) Willpower (1)

Cost: 14 skill points (11 trappings, 5 connections, -2 drawback)
Description: You are a mad scientist, not a doctor.

Doomsday Device
Power Tier: Godlike (-6 refresh)
Major Delay:
Taxing:
Complication [Major]: Not the FBIs most wanted, but you’re on all the same lists
Snag (Minor): For the Menace trapping to function, those to be affected must understand what it is they are looking at or witness the destruction or its aftermath.
Snag (Minor): Variable Effect is only used to add an extra that specifies the kind of WMD it is.
Focus (Minor)

Brawl + Zone + Zone + Zone + Variable (Session)(only to be used to define the kind of WMD)
Menace + Zone + Zone + Unusual: will spread by word of mouth.


Cost: 6 skill points (2 trappings, 0 connections, 13 Extras, -9 drawback)
Description:  You collect doomsday devices.  You carry a small one (really more of a WMD than a DDD) around with you in your suitcase.  People who discover what it is you are carrying tend to run away as fast as they are able, not that it would save them if you flipped THE SWITCH!  It costs a fate point to set off the weapon.  The weapon always has a one minute timer, it is unlikely that you could get away in time if the weapon went off.

[clockworkjoe]

Haha, I dig it. I might use him as a NPC in a future game.