Teenagers From Outerspace
This week we return to high school. Anime high school. Full of aliens and mutants and super-science and clueless guys being chased by scary women...
I'll be making a Near Human alien, Prince Neko deGato VonKatze. 187th in line for the throne of of the world of H'lokiteah. Near Humans just have a few alien traits. In this case fuzzy cat ears and a tail. Next TFO characters have eight statistics; Smarts, Bod, Relationship With Parents, Luck, Driving, Looks, Cool and Bonk. That last one is essentially how much damage you can take before passing out. For each you roll 1d6, and then you can swap points around, provided nothing goes above six or below one...
Smarts: 6, Bod: 3, R.W.P: 5, Luck: 3, Driving: 6, Looks: 6, Cool: 3, Bonk: 5. I'll move a couple points from Smarts to Cool and one from Driving to Luck. Of course in TFO the gamemaster is encouraged to screw with characters with high stats...
Next up are Knacks. Essentially bonuses to add to a stat for certain situations. Each Knack is connected to a specific Statistic. Like Hot-Rodding might go to Driving or Cool. Or Hit With Mallet would link to Bod. To determine Knacks you roll another d6. Then you divide that between as many Knacks as you want, to a maximum of 3 points. So for Prince Neko I roll another 6. I'll give him the Knacks of Sad Eyes of Doom+2 to RWP, Super-Adorable Innocence+1 to Looks, Kitty Kat Kung-Fu+1 to Bod and Go Too Damn Fast+2 to Driving...
Now we have alien powers. For this I roll 1d6 again on three of the alien powers tables. A roll of 4 gets Super Speed, 1 gets Nothing and 4 gets Temporal Funk. So he moves faster than a Cheetah AND can freeze time for up to a minute...
In the home stretch are Traits, Allowance and Wheels, Goodies & Gadgets. Traits are three habits, ways of looking at things or tendancies that further define the character. For my Cat Boi Prince I go with Easily distracted by shiny objects, Sleepy (he'll always be napping) and Goes both ways. Of course in TFO the characters are ALWAYS interupted before going All The Way. Because its funnier. For allowance Prince Neko only gets $25 a week. Stupid stingy royal family. And he's got $150 saved up. You start with a free vehicle, so Prince Neko will have a space-going flying motorcycle. Because it matches his leather jacket and mirror shades...
I'll be making a Near Human alien, Prince Neko deGato VonKatze. 187th in line for the throne of of the world of H'lokiteah. Near Humans just have a few alien traits. In this case fuzzy cat ears and a tail. Next TFO characters have eight statistics; Smarts, Bod, Relationship With Parents, Luck, Driving, Looks, Cool and Bonk. That last one is essentially how much damage you can take before passing out. For each you roll 1d6, and then you can swap points around, provided nothing goes above six or below one...
Smarts: 6, Bod: 3, R.W.P: 5, Luck: 3, Driving: 6, Looks: 6, Cool: 3, Bonk: 5. I'll move a couple points from Smarts to Cool and one from Driving to Luck. Of course in TFO the gamemaster is encouraged to screw with characters with high stats...
Next up are Knacks. Essentially bonuses to add to a stat for certain situations. Each Knack is connected to a specific Statistic. Like Hot-Rodding might go to Driving or Cool. Or Hit With Mallet would link to Bod. To determine Knacks you roll another d6. Then you divide that between as many Knacks as you want, to a maximum of 3 points. So for Prince Neko I roll another 6. I'll give him the Knacks of Sad Eyes of Doom+2 to RWP, Super-Adorable Innocence+1 to Looks, Kitty Kat Kung-Fu+1 to Bod and Go Too Damn Fast+2 to Driving...
Now we have alien powers. For this I roll 1d6 again on three of the alien powers tables. A roll of 4 gets Super Speed, 1 gets Nothing and 4 gets Temporal Funk. So he moves faster than a Cheetah AND can freeze time for up to a minute...
In the home stretch are Traits, Allowance and Wheels, Goodies & Gadgets. Traits are three habits, ways of looking at things or tendancies that further define the character. For my Cat Boi Prince I go with Easily distracted by shiny objects, Sleepy (he'll always be napping) and Goes both ways. Of course in TFO the characters are ALWAYS interupted before going All The Way. Because its funnier. For allowance Prince Neko only gets $25 a week. Stupid stingy royal family. And he's got $150 saved up. You start with a free vehicle, so Prince Neko will have a space-going flying motorcycle. Because it matches his leather jacket and mirror shades...