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Title: Need help writing aspects for pre-gen characters
Post by: exploding_brain on September 12, 2012, 09:21:26 PM
So I'm using Dresden Files RPG to run a Monster Hunters mashup game at a convention this Saturday. Basically, it's a League of Extraordinary Monster Hunters from the last 30 years or so. Current characters include:

Wheedonverse: Buffy, Angel, Spike
Doctor Who: The Doctor
Ghostbusters: Peter Venkman
Men In Black: J
Hellboy: Hellboy

I'd like to add a few more choices for my players, and I could really use some help generating aspects for additional characters.

I'm going with a High Concept, Trouble, and three more, leaving a couple of empty slots for players to fill in.

If anyone is inspired to write some aspects for the following, you'd have me deepest gratitude.

Wheedonverse: Willow
Doctor Who: Captain Jack Harkness (more Doctor Who than Torchwood), River Song
Ghostbusters: Ray, Egon and Winston
X-Files: Dr. Dana Scully

Or anyone else you can think of. Thanks. :)
Title: Re: Need help writing aspects for pre-gen characters
Post by: exploding_brain on September 12, 2012, 10:07:13 PM
If anyone's interested, the current cast's aspects can be found here.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tC5MQ6jR8oaXMgzVLw8L50Nrj51lCXp6lUx9HZGVWZs/edit
Title: Re: Need help writing aspects for pre-gen characters
Post by: admiralducksauce on September 13, 2012, 01:33:16 PM
Character ideas from additional properties:

Sam and Dean Winchester (Supernatural)
John Constantine (Hellblazer)
Elsa Bloodstone (Nextwave)
Blade (that should be funny next to Angel and Spike)
Title: Re: Need help writing aspects for pre-gen characters
Post by: Silverblaze on September 13, 2012, 03:22:13 PM
Constantine has a crew now.  Kinda...

Deadman
Zatanna
Madame Xanadu
Shade the Changing Man

Those four aren't really monster hunters though.



Other suggestions:
Dante (Devil May Cry)
The Legend himself: Ash   
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Title: Re: Need help writing aspects for pre-gen characters
Post by: exploding_brain on September 13, 2012, 10:11:07 PM
On a related note, anyone want to try writing up Willow (from Buffy) as a Submerged level character? I can stat up most of the other characters fairly quickly because they're not casters, but Willow is a full-fledged witch, with all the additional math that implies.

Thanks.
Title: Re: Need help writing aspects for pre-gen characters
Post by: Sanctaphrax on September 14, 2012, 02:00:58 AM
What can Willow do?

Does she throw fireballs? Fly? Cast lengthy rituals? Beat down vampires with her Kung Fu skills?
Title: Re: Need help writing aspects for pre-gen characters
Post by: tuttman1234 on September 14, 2012, 06:18:14 AM
Well, if you follow the story through the Season 8 books, then she does all of that except for the Kung Fu.
Title: Re: Need help writing aspects for pre-gen characters
Post by: ways and means on September 14, 2012, 12:37:16 PM
Quote from: tuttman1234 on September 14, 2012, 06:18:14 AM
Well, if you follow the story through the Season 8 books, then she does all of that except for the Kung Fu.

Don't forget she also uses reality bending magic, mass hypnosis a couple of times during the season. Though her greatest feats include  turning tens of thousands of women into superhuman's across the globe and then slaying hundreds of thousands of demons all by herself (during season eight).
Title: Re: Need help writing aspects for pre-gen characters
Post by: Taran on September 14, 2012, 02:15:57 PM
On the Willow line there's Ressurection.  Don't forget that.  But there were consequences for that one.
Title: Re: Need help writing aspects for pre-gen characters
Post by: Sanctaphrax on September 14, 2012, 08:26:30 PM
So Thaumaturgy, Wings, Evocation, and some Refinements.

Anything else?

Does she have a good singing voice? Is she smart? Does she do anything that might indicate Sponsored Magic?

Etc, etc.
Title: Re: Need help writing aspects for pre-gen characters
Post by: ways and means on September 14, 2012, 08:30:45 PM
Quote from: Sanctaphrax on September 14, 2012, 08:26:30 PM
So Thaumaturgy, Wings, Evocation, and some Refinements.

Anything else?

Does she have a good singing voice? Is she smart? Does she do anything that might indicate Sponsored Magic?

Etc, etc.

Well there was that one time she channeled the font of all magic, magic in Buffyverse is drawn from the environment rather than existing naturally in its users.
Title: Re: Need help writing aspects for pre-gen characters
Post by: Sanctaphrax on September 14, 2012, 08:32:25 PM
It's starting to sound like she operates entirely on plot.

Does she actually have defined abilities?
Title: Re: Need help writing aspects for pre-gen characters
Post by: Silverblaze on September 15, 2012, 11:35:46 PM
Quote from: Sanctaphrax on September 14, 2012, 08:32:25 PM
It's starting to sound like she operates entirely on plot.

Does she actually have defined abilities?

No.  She is another Whedon femme fatale.  She is as powerful as she needs to be at all times for story.  For better or worse.  Though I should note that any character from a game/movie/ other form of media operates 100% on plot until a player in a game takes the reigns.

I'd just make her a warlock with Evocation, Thaumaturgy, Evo-Thaum from.... something and call it a day. She doesn't use the sight or soulgaze.  Rituals from Thaum can replicate this anyhow.
Title: Re: Need help writing aspects for pre-gen characters
Post by: Sanctaphrax on September 16, 2012, 02:57:08 AM
Most stories at least have the decency to give their characters some definition. Sherlock Holmes is always a better detective than Watson, even if his success is mostly plot dependent.

But okay, I guess she'll just be a sorcerer.

From wikipedia, I'm guessing spellcasting skills and Scholarship for the top of the pyramid and social skills to fill out the bottom.

What types of spell does she favour?
Title: Re: Need help writing aspects for pre-gen characters
Post by: Taran on September 16, 2012, 12:54:29 PM
Quote from: Sanctaphrax on September 16, 2012, 02:57:08 AM
Most stories at least have the decency to give their characters some definition. Sherlock Holmes is always a better detective than Watson, even if his success is mostly plot dependent.

But okay, I guess she'll just be a sorcerer.

From wikipedia, I'm guessing spellcasting skills and Scholarship for the top of the pyramid and social skills to fill out the bottom.

What types of spell does she favour?

If you're doing aspects as well, her magic is styled as Wicca.  She dated a werewolf for a while, then started dating another witch.  She's kind of shy and awkward - although, by the end of the show much of the awkwardness goes away.  Most of her spells are thaumaturgy.  At least the big-bang ones.  I don't really remember her pulling off any super-powerful stuff on the fly.  I think she may have a Lawbreaker in there...I'm fairly sure she's done mind magic before - but I can't really remember.
Title: Re: Need help writing aspects for pre-gen characters
Post by: tuttman1234 on September 16, 2012, 05:25:41 PM
Yeah, she has. She's taken peoples memories away.
Title: Re: Need help writing aspects for pre-gen characters
Post by: Silverblaze on September 16, 2012, 05:44:10 PM
She ripped the skin off some guy who was tied up...much like a Flensing spell from D&D.

That might have been evo-thaum?


I haven't read the season 8 comics.  Is she heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, omnisexual, or asexual now?