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Alright, I've played alot of games. Among role playing games, I have three:

D20, Storyteller, and Tri-Stat. Of these, Tri-Stat is my favorite for its ease of manipulation. I mean, I built a riding tiger out of. . . I think five points the other night. Took me a whole two minutes. I'm teaching three people the game right now, and NONE of them have experience with it, nor the book. The ease of use is spectacular.

Now, on to the purpose of this thread.

Unique Characters and Defects. Something that book says is possible, but they don't give a very large example of. It's the 'look, you can make whatever you want if what we have doesn't cover it!'

Well, in my time goofing around, and playing one of my favorite games with a friend of mine ((Called simply, make yourself a character sheet.)) we came up with a unique defect:

Allergies.

Allergies are known for being anywhere from mild discomfort to making tasks overly difficult, or even to the point of deadly. This Character Defect represents the varying degrees of allergies. It's up to the GM when your allergies affect you.

1BP: Mild Discomfort, concentration becomes difficult, and all Stat Checks have a +2 Penalty.
2BP: Heavy Discomfort, concentration becomes near impossible, all Stat Checks and Combat rolls suffer a +4 Penalty
3BP: Rare, or slow acting, deadly allergy, If you fall victim to your allergen, you have 1 day, if it is slow acting, or 1 hour if rare, to seek medical help, either in the form of an antihistamine syringe, or a full medical facility, or make a Body Stat check each round. Failure means death. Every hour (Or minute) after this first check adds a +1 Penalty to the roll.
4BP: As a Rare allergy, but a more common allergen.

Anyone who has lived with allergies would recognize most of the symptoms and agree with this.

If we make a large list, perhaps we can make an encyclopedia?

The effects of these are really more related to the way you RP a character, but can be a lot of fun if used creatively.

Unique Character Defect: Naive

The character has been in an environment apart from the outside world, or led a very sheltered life.

1 BP: Sometimes misunderstands sayings and misjudges situations or intents that should be obvious.
2 BP: Does not understand sarcasm, innuendo or most jokes. Badly misjudges situations and intents.
3 BP: Alien complex. Does not understand common behavior or attitudes of regular inhabitants, even when they explain.

Unique Character Defect: ADHD

The character has little or no attenton span and cannot take on many mundane or repetitive tasks.

1 BP: Sometimes loses train of though or misses important occurences due to lack of attention. Usually at inopportune moments.
2 BP: Often loses train of though, cannot stay on topic, often misses important occurences. Usually at inopportune moments.
3 BP: Bounces between unrelated thoughts and cannot focus on what characters and NPCs do or say. Loses train of thought, even during combat and tense situations. Always at inopportune moments.

Unique Character Defect: God-Complex

This character is absolutely sure of their own greatness and knows that their destiny for more greatness is unstoppable. The characters actual abitities often contradict this idea, but that doesn't stop them.

1 BP: Knows they are better than everyone else at most things (whether this is actually true or not), and lets them know it. Does not take directions well. Sometimes takes extra risks.
2 BP: Is absolutely certain that everyone else is of an inferior breed. and will point that out given the opportunity. Will not take directions or follow others without major complaining. Often takes risks due to the fact that nothing bad could possibly happen (they think).
3 BP: Is convinced that he/she is the equivalent of a God or Messiah and does not understand how this is not obvious to everyone. Will attempt to convince anyone in sight of this. Must be the leader in any situation, and often takes extreme risks, bacause he/she is obviously superior and probably invincible (at least that's what they've convinced themselves).


Those last two work well with Easily Distracted (Everything) and Easily Distracted (Own Greatness) respectively.

This isn't as complete as the previous ones posted.

"Unique Defect-- Loner (3pt): Break Man is bothered by his lack (or surplus) of purpose and this causes odd relationships between him and all other bots. He is rarely around other life for more than a few moments."

While I'm at it:

Loser:
1pt: Listens to Linkin Park, is slightly caught in an angsty pre-pubescent funk.
2pt: Listens to My Chemical Romance, is quite caught in an angsty pre-pubescent funk but still gathers some musical taste from the affair.
3pt: Listens to Fallout Boy and other pop bands. Completely trapped in angsty pre-pubescent delusion.

Burn, baby. Burn.

My god, the third one gave me such an image of Tatewaki Kunou from Ranma 1/2. *shudders*

Form Change:

Stick with even stat increases. Odd stat increases result in .5 CP use and typically unfavorable balance in benefit. It is usually better use even increase.

Do you temporally gain a number of ranks in a Special Attack Attribute? I think that would be better stated as. " , gain 3 Rank 1 Special Attacks, "

What keeps a person from continuing to change again and again, or prolonging a change to maintain the use of those special attacks. Also the cost of this attribute is more then just taking the special attacks and stat increase permanently.

-+-+-+-+-+
4 CP / Rank
rank 1- 1 round, 1 Rank 1 Special Attack, +2 to one ability score (5 CP)
rank 2- 2 rounds, 1 Rank 2 Special Attack, +4 (10 CP)
rank 3- 3 rounds, 2 Rank 2 and 2 Rank 1 Special Attacks , +6 (15 CP)
rank 4- 4 rounds, 3 Rank 2 and 4 Rank 1 Special Attacks , +8 (20 CP)

This Attribute is only usable once per encounter plus the character's constitution modifier, with a minimum of once per encounter. This power's duration may be extend at the cost of 1 EP per round beyond the limit.

This makes it an attractive alternative to just Special Attack and Stat increases. The CP calculations are for just buying those abilities straight, not including any calculations for the time limit. The longer you stay with the power the more of benefit you get.

For power abuse I immediately see the use of the Limited Shot defect to boost these attacks, as once the transformation is over the powers rest if it is used again. At Rank four and the expenditure of 3 EP a character could launch all 7 attacks. Reduced to one shot each attack has at least a +2 Slot bonus.

Wait, did you intend that for was that for d20 or Tri-stat? I rebuilt it assuming you were using d20 rules. I'd do things slightly different for the Tri-stat version.

What!? I only have one point of loser?? You need to change your system, I have a lot more loserness than that.