Statting Up Worm Characters

[narphoenix]

Thanks Sancta. You have officially addicted me. Bastard.

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It's really good...

[Sanctaphrax]

Glad to have you onboard, narphoenix.

I'm actually kind of surprised how effectively this thread seems to be advertising the series. I guess seeing out-of-context characters makes people want to learn more, and Worm tends to hook you once you start reading it.

In light of the revelations about Jack's power, fancy re-statting him to take his secondary powers into account?

Unfortunately, it's not clear exactly how Jack's other power works. I really don't know how it should be statted.

Maybe just switch his defence stunt to "+2 to dodge parahuman attacks" and make Good At Wrangling Evil boost attacks against parahumans. Then make his Trouble Aspect reference his power and have him use his 10 Fate Points.

[PirateJack]

It's more than that though. It's a connection with other parahumans that has multiple effects. It gives him a bonus to dodging, empathy, rapport, weapons and probably deceit too. Might be best to just adjust an aspect a little so that he can invoke it easily. It'd actually make sense with what happened in the last chapter.

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Jack was fine dodging parahuman attacks, but got caught by the Dragon's Tooth guy using containment foam because that guy didn't have a Shard (also, anyone else immediately think of Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere when they read that?). I'd work that as Jack taking a compel to go down to the DT agent, or perhaps failing a roll because he didn't get the invocation to boost his dodge.

[Sanctaphrax]

Like I said, his Trouble and his FP supply will have to do a lot of the heavy lifting.

[narphoenix]

Hey Sancta. I noticed that you discussed doing/did all of the Undersiders. Except for Imp. Can you do her?

[Hick Jr]

Huh. Imp.


I think that you could hack the Displacement power into working for her.

[Sanctaphrax]

I don't think I've done Tattletale or Parian, actually.

But yeah, Displacement would work for Imp. Take the Enhanced Displacement and Invisibility upgrades and you're golden.

Skills are trickier. We haven't seen much impressive mundane stuff from Imp. Though she seems to be pretty good at slitting throats.

I think I've got a good set of ideas for Aspects.

I'll take a shot later today.

[Hick Jr]

I actually thought that Inexplicable Knowledge was written with Tattletale in mind.


Parian might have Ritual:Summoning? and Telekinesis, with no Strength power and low Conviction?

[Sanctaphrax]

Inexplicable Knowledge predates me reading Worm. It would work pretty well for Tattletale, though.

On the other hand, Tattletale could also work as a Pure Mortal who spends a lot of FP on Declarations.

Parian would require a new Power that I don't plan to write. Her puppetry is much faster than Ritual (Summoning), but the resulting creature is not independent. She has to control it.

[Hick Jr]

Two more options would be Ritual(Summoning) with the Mastery of Spellcasting thing, or using the Companion stunt system.


Well, I'm now fully up to date on Worm and really, really, really HATING. JACK. SLASH.

[narphoenix]

I was actually thinking that Tattletale hit unstattable due to an almost Intellectus thig. But I dunno now. I have to see the Inexplicable Knowledge power to tell.

[KnightOrbis]

For Parian you could use the Drone power, give her inhuman strength or whatever and throw in a limitation saying they only apply to drones.

[Sanctaphrax]

For Parian you could use the Drone power, give her inhuman strength or whatever and throw in a limitation saying they only apply to drones.

Two more options would be Ritual(Summoning) with the Mastery of Spellcasting thing, or using the Companion stunt system.

Good ideas, but...I dunno. None of them seem perfect to me. Drones + Limitation is probably closest.

I was actually thinking that Tattletale hit unstattable due to an almost Intellectus thig. But I dunno now. I have to see the Inexplicable Knowledge power to tell.

Intellectus isn't unstattable. I'm not thrilled with what we have in the other thread, but it's at least a credible attempt.

Anyway, here's Inexplicable Knowledge.

(Have I ever mentioned how handy it is to have individual Power pages? So handy. Makes me wonder how I ever got by before the big wiki upgrade.)

That aside, here's Imp.

Her skills are speculative. I have no idea what post-timeskip Imp can do, so I made things up.

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Imp (Submerged)

High Concept: Member Of The Undersiders
Trouble Aspect: Annoyingly Childish
Other Aspects: Loved And Lost Regent, Saviour Of The Heartbroken, Cares About Her Brother, Neglectful Parents, Not Very Memorable
Skills:
Superb: Weapons
Great: Contacts, Alertness, Resources
Good: Endurance, Athletics, Deceit
Fair: Rapport, Empathy, Discipline
Average: Fists, Presence, Conviction
Stunts:
Throat Slitter (Weapons): +2 stress with knives.
Saviour Of The Heartbroken (Contacts): Can use Contacts to gain the assistance of abused children with emotion-related superpowers.
Powers:
Aura Of Influence [-0] (Applies FORGET ABOUT IMP Aspect to any scene that Imp is in)
Enhanced Invisibility [-3]
Total Refresh Cost:
-5
Refresh Total:
5

[Hick Jr]

So some requests!

Legend (possibly unstattable), Alexandria, Accord, Newter, and Labyrinth!

Accord probably has Intellectus regarding how to introduce order or solve a problem.

[Sanctaphrax]

I can do Alexandria and Newter easily enough.

Dunno about Accord and Labyrinth. Their powers don't translate that well to DFRPG.

Legend definitely isn't unstattable. Might require a bit of jiggering to get his lasers to be as powerful as they should be, but I'm confident I can manage something.