Author Topic: Character Concept: Once Upon A Time, This Vanilla Had Flavor  (Read 2670 times)

Offline Thrythlind

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High Concept: Recovered From Being a Dryad Princess
Trouble: I'm Happy With Being Vanilla, Nobody Else Seems to Be
Background: Dad Did More Than Hug That Tree
Rising Story: I Love My Evil Stepmother
The Story: I Do Believe In Faeries, Used To Be One
Guest Star: I Reject Your Unreality and Substitute a Psychology Degree
Guest Star: I'm Not Useless

Skills:

Superb: Conviction
Great: Empathy,
Good: Scholarship, Presence, Rapport, Discipline
Fair: Endurance, Weapons, Resources, Lore
Average: Stealth, Deceit, Alertness, Athletics, Intimidation, Investigation

Stunts:
Conviction: Person of Conviction, Resilient Self Image, Tower of Faith
Empathy: Counselor, Read the Surface
Rapport: Let Me Tell You a Story
Presence: Teflon Persona

Refresh: -7

Concept: Formerly a half-dryad changeling who chose her human family.  Still clued in.  Acts as a sort of therapist for the clued-in and gets drawn in occasionally.
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Re: Character Concept: Once Upon A Time, This Vanilla Had Flavor
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2011, 03:56:04 PM »
Character looks interesting.

Submerged level, right?

There shouldn't be a comma after Empathy.

Refresh should take into account the Pure Mortal bonus.

Not a huge fan of your formatting, but that's just me being picky.

The Spare Character Concepts thread on the Resources board could use this, I think.

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Re: Character Concept: Once Upon A Time, This Vanilla Had Flavor
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2011, 04:28:35 PM »
comma was left over from a previous arrangement
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Re: Character Concept: Once Upon A Time, This Vanilla Had Flavor
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2011, 06:14:30 PM »
The one issue I see is that there's no reason for her to have chosen human, or to be more appropriate it's not reflected in her aspects. Her background and rising story are all about her being fairy, it's not until later (when she's supposed to be who she is already) that we bump into aspects that suggest that decision, and there aren't any that talk about why. I would think whatever it was had enough impact on her life for her to make such a huge choice, it ought to be reflected in the aspects.

This is only personal preference though. Were I GMing and someone brought this character to me, I would be asking these questions.

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Re: Character Concept: Once Upon A Time, This Vanilla Had Flavor
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2011, 07:58:26 PM »
yeah, this is incomplete though the "I Love My Evil Stepmother" aims that way, the "evil" stepmother being the human mother and only evil from the cliche fairy tale perspective
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Re: Character Concept: Once Upon A Time, This Vanilla Had Flavor
« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2011, 01:14:13 AM »
I thought vanilla was a flavor  :-[
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Re: Character Concept: Once Upon A Time, This Vanilla Had Flavor
« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2011, 06:51:24 AM »
I love the names of those aspects!

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Re: Character Concept: Once Upon A Time, This Vanilla Had Flavor
« Reply #7 on: June 21, 2011, 05:37:50 AM »
High Concept: Recovered From Being a Dryad Princess
Trouble: I'm Happy With Being Vanilla, Nobody Else Seems to Be
Background: Dad Did More Than Hug That Tree
Rising Story: I Love My Evil Stepmother
The Story: I Do Believe In Faeries, Used To Be One
Guest Star: I Reject Your Unreality and Substitute a Psychology Degree
Guest Star: I'm Not Useless

Skills:

Superb: Conviction
Great: Empathy,
Good: Scholarship, Presence, Rapport, Discipline
Fair: Endurance, Weapons, Resources, Lore
Average: Stealth, Deceit, Alertness, Athletics, Intimidation, Investigation

Stunts:
Conviction: Person of Conviction, Resilient Self Image, Tower of Faith
Empathy: Counselor, Read the Surface
Rapport: Let Me Tell You a Story
Presence: Teflon Persona

Refresh: -7

Concept: Formerly a half-dryad changeling who chose her human family.  Still clued in.  Acts as a sort of therapist for the clued-in and gets drawn in occasionally.

Oh, and I love the character.  :)
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