Statting Up Worm Characters

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Here's Taylor.

I felt like she deserved more skill points than I could offer...might have been a good idea to kick her up to Scuba Diving level. She could use the extra FP, too, with the stuff she pulls.

Her ability to make spidersilk armour is covered by her Incite Effect and her Craftsmanship skill. Some GMs might not allow that, so if you want to play her you might have to use her last spare Refresh on some kind of silk ability.

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Taylor Hebert (Snorkelling)

High Concept: Insect-Controlling Superhero
Trouble Aspect: Issues With Authority
Other Aspects: Former Leader Of The Undersiders, Extra-Strength Passenger, Former Social Pariah, Doing The Wrong Things For The Right Reasons, Unhealthy Determination
Skills:
Superb: Discipline, Endurance
Great: Alertness, Scholarship, Athletics
Good: Conviction, Craftsmanship, Intimidation
Fair: Lore, Investigation, Empathy
Average: Presence, Weapons, Rapport
Stunts:
Tough As Nails (Endurance): Opponents who tag physical consequences on attacks against Taylor only get +1 or reroll 3 dice.
Keep Calm And Strategize (Discipline): Use Discipline +1 for Assessments and Declarations related to making clever plans when a normal person would be freaking the hell out.
Into The Eyes And Down The Throat (Discipline): Incite Effect attacks inflict 2 additional stress to people without Toughness or face-protecting armour.
Powers:
Supernatural Senses [-3] (See, hear, taste, and feel everything within a few hundred metres)
Incite Potent Physical Persistent Selective Mass Effect At Range [-7] (Insect Control)
Limitation [+2] (Needs to have bugs to use Powers)
Total Refresh Cost:
-11
Refresh Total:
2

Should probably be something in there that covers her frankly ludicrous multitasking ability. Other than that, it's a stat-up; comprehensive yet compact.

[Sanctaphrax]

Wow, how did I forget that?

I considered giving her Extra Appendages, but her Refresh budget didn't have room. Maybe I should just kick her up to Scuba Diving after all...

Or maybe I could just reword Extra-Strength Passenger to Multi-Task Passenger.

For whatever it's worth, here's Scuba Diving Taylor:

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Taylor Hebert (Scuba Diving)

High Concept: Insect-Controlling Superhero
Trouble Aspect: Issues With Authority
Other Aspects: Former Leader Of The Undersiders, Extra-Strength Passenger, Former Social Pariah, Doing The Wrong Things For The Right Reasons, Unhealthy Determination
Skills:
Fantastic: Discipline
Superb: Alertness, Endurance
Great: Scholarship, Athletics
Good: Conviction, Craftsmanship, Intimidation
Fair: Lore, Investigation, Empathy
Average: Deceit, Weapons, Rapport, Fists, Presence, Stealth
Stunts:
Tough As Nails (Endurance): Opponents who tag physical consequences on attacks against Taylor only get +1 or reroll 3 dice.
Keep Calm And Strategize (Discipline): Use Discipline +1 for Assessments and Declarations related to making clever plans when a normal person would be freaking the hell out.
Into The Eyes And Down The Throat (Discipline): Incite Effect attacks inflict 2 additional stress to people without Toughness or face-protecting armour.
Powers:
Supernatural Senses [-3] (See, hear, taste, and feel everything within a few hundred metres)
Incite Potent Physical Persistent Selective Mass Effect At Range [-7] (Insect Control)
Extra Appendages (Flurry Of Blows, Excellent Coordination x2) [-5]
Limitation [+3] (Needs to have bugs to use Powers)
Total Refresh Cost:
-15
Refresh Total:
2

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Random thought: I kinda wonder what the worm characters would be like if you translated them over to the DF setting? What would they be? Rachel as some sort of focused practioner who can buff up anyone but chooses to only do so on dogs? Taylor as a neuromancer who's weak enough that she can only take control of simple minds like insects and crabs? Grue as a Hob changeling (though that doesn't really fit with his body and looks)? A DFRPG game set in a city where a group of "low powered" talents ( ) have taken over after the fall of the Red Court could be fun.

[Sanctaphrax]

I dunno.

Honestly, the question's not that interesting to me. I feel like you'd lose a lot of what makes the Worm-verse characters who they are if you moved them into the Dresden setting.

Gonna put these up on the wiki tonight.

[KnightOrbis]

After reading Worm I now can fully understand how awesome this thread is.

How would you do Regent, Incite Effect for simple twitches and involuntary reactions and domination for the full body takeover or would it warrant spellcasting?

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I dunno.

Honestly, the question's not that interesting to me. I feel like you'd lose a lot of what makes the Worm-verse characters who they are if you moved them into the Dresden setting.

Gonna put these up on the wiki tonight.

Do you think so because magical stuff is kept hidden in the DF while the superhero situation is very public in the Wormverse? That's pretty much the only thing I can think of that would have a major impact on the characters (what with Tattletale for example, probably not being blamed for her brothers death. Well, unless they found out about her powers...).

Requests: Night,Fog, Crawler, Mannequin, Hatchet Face, Cherish,and the Siberian. Oh yeah, and Jack. I'm rather curious as to how you'll stat him.   

[Sanctaphrax]

Do you think so because magical stuff is kept hidden in the DF while the superhero situation is very public in the Wormverse?

That's part of it. The Red Court would be totally out of place in Worm, and the PRT would be totally out of place in the Dresden Files.

The psychological importance of trigger events and passengers is another part. Every natural cape has been traumatized, and many of them have weird mental rewiring thanks to their powers.

The atmosphere of the worlds is different too. The Dresdenverse is more mysterious, the Wormverse is more scary. Urban fantasy/noir mystery is different from superhero/horror-thriller.

And the powers manifest differently. The Wormverse is basically materialistic. Your brain is a physical object, your powers are physical effects. The Dresdenverse is more spiritual. You work magic with your will, and you've actually got a soul. DF heavyweights have all kinds of metaphysical weight, while Wormverse heavyweights basically just punch really really hard.

Requests: Night,Fog, Crawler, Mannequin, Hatchet Face, Cherish,and the Siberian. Oh yeah, and Jack. I'm rather curious as to how you'll stat him.

I did Cherish already.

Jack, Night, and Crawler should all be pretty easy.

Mannequin and Fog will probably be a bit trickier, but nothing I can't handle.

Hatchet Face and the Siberian are too hard, though. No can do.

After reading Worm I now can fully understand how awesome this thread is.

Did you start reading because of this thread?

How would you do Regent, Incite Effect for simple twitches and involuntary reactions and domination for the full body takeover or would it warrant spellcasting?

No need for spellcasting. His body-stealing is a little tricky to model because it's halfway between Domination and Possession, though. He sees through his victims' eyes and controls their every movement, but he keeps control of his own body and he can target multiple people. On the other hand, he loses control if his concentration breaks.

I'd probably do it like this...

Incite Spasms At Range [-2]
Limitation [+3] (Must concentrate to keep thralls under control, which sometimes involves taking a penalty. If concentration breaks thralls go free until he concentrates again.)
   Superior Enthrallment [-3] (Grants the Pack Instincts Power with all upgrades.)
   Pack Instincts [-4] (All upgrades, pack consists of enthralled characters.)

Using the homebrew version of Pack Instincts, of course.

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That's part of it. The Red Court would be totally out of place in Worm, and the PRT would be totally out of place in the Dresden Files.

The psychological importance of trigger events and passengers is another part. Every natural cape has been traumatized, and many of them have weird mental rewiring thanks to their powers.

The atmosphere of the worlds is different too. The Dresdenverse is more mysterious, the Wormverse is more scary. Urban fantasy/noir mystery is different from superhero/horror-thriller.

And the powers manifest differently. The Wormverse is basically materialistic. Your brain is a physical object, your powers are physical effects. The Dresdenverse is more spiritual. You work magic with your will, and you've actually got a soul. DF heavyweights have all kinds of metaphysical weight, while Wormverse heavyweights basically just punch really really hard.

Huh...interesting stuff to ponder. Though I never really thought of Worm as a horror story. I mean its got horrifying things in it yeah but those seem like more of a strong side dish. It's kind of like if someone wrote a story set in some third world, war torn country. Horrible and scary things are done in those countries every day but I don't think you'd classify a book that had those things as a "horror" story. The Dresdenverse could easily have that kind of horror, we just don't see it because Jim doesn't want to write that stuff (by WoJ).   

I did Cherish already.

Jack, Night, and Crawler should all be pretty easy.

Mannequin and Fog will probably be a bit trickier, but nothing I can't handle.

Hatchet Face and the Siberian are too hard, though. No can do.
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Whoops, forgot about that  .

Thanks again  .

[Sanctaphrax]

First three done.

The full extent of Crawler and Night's healing is beyond the scope of the system, sad to say.

Crawler's evolution is just buying Powers. You can do that whenever you have a good excuse, in this game.

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Jack Slash (In A Submarine)

High Concept: Leader Of The Nine
Trouble Aspect: Super-Strong Passenger
Other Aspects: Player Of Games, Manipulative Bastard, Pure Evil, Knife Lover, An Artist Of Sorts
Skills:
Superb: Weapons, Empathy
Great: Athletics, Rapport, Presence, Intimidation
Good: Endurance, Conviction, Discipline, Alertness
Fair: Stealth, Deceit, Investigation, Fists
Average: Burglary, Lore, Might, Survival
Stunts:
Knife Nut (Weapons): +2 stress with knives.
Precise Cuts (Weapons): +1 to hit with knives.
A Thousand Lucky Escapes (Athletics): Spend a Fate Point for +4 to dodge.
Bad Influence (Empathy): Use Empathy for social attacks designed to turn people into scary-but-obedient monsters.
Good At Wrangling Evil (Empathy): +2 stress when using Empathy to attack someone who's at least a bit evil-crazy.
Find The Breakpoints (Empathy): +2 to read people.
Powers:
Marked By Power [-1]
Spiritual Co-Pilot [-1]
Restricted Extended Long Reach [-1] (Slashing attacks have a range of three zones)
Inhuman Toughness [-2]
Total Refresh Cost:
-11
Refresh Total:
10

Night (Chest Deep)

High Concept: Neo-Nazi Supervillain
Trouble Aspect: Brainwashed By The Gesselschaft
Other Aspects: Married To Fog, Blandly Sociopathic
Skills:
Great: Discipline
Good: Stealth, Deceit, Alertness
Fair: Scholarship, Intimidation, Athletics, Contacts, Resources
Average: Conviction, Endurance, Fists, Presence, Rapport, Investigation, Lore
Skills (Beast Form):
Superb: Fists, Athletics
Great: Stealth, Alertness
Good: Endurance, Discipline
Fair: Investigation, Might
Average: Conviction, Intimidation
Stunts:
Quick Shift (Endurance): No penalty for Beast Change supplemental actions. No penalty for removing a mild consequence either, as long as you do it while using Beast Change.
Powers:
Beast Change [-1]
Inhuman Strength [-2]
Potent Natural Weaponry [-2]
Supernatural Speed [-4]
Inhuman Toughness [-2]
Mythic Recovery [-6]
Limitation [+8] (Only has Powers when nobody's looking)
Total Refresh Cost:
-9
Refresh Total:
-1

Crawler (Snorkelling)

High Concept: Member Of The Nine
Trouble Aspect: Self-Improvement Through Self-Destruction
Other Aspects: Inhuman Body, Masochistic, The Strong Silent Type
Skills:
Superb: Fists, Endurance
Great: Athletics, Alertness, Might
Good: Conviction, Discipline, Intimidation
Fair: Investigation, Survival, Empathy
Average: Presence, Scholarship, Lore
Stunts:
Adaptive Defences (Athletics): +2 to dodge any attack that's been used against him previously in the same scene.
Powers:
Hulking Size [-2]
Supernatural Strength [-4]
Inhuman Speed [-2]
Supernatural Toughness [-4]
Mythic Recovery [-6]
Undying [-0]
Potent Ranged Natural Weaponry [-3]
Feel No Pain [-3]
Total Refresh Cost:
-25
Refresh Total:
-12

[KnightOrbis]

Did you start reading because of this thread?

Yeah I felt I was missing some context and spent the next week reading, I'm currently almost halfway through Arc 23 about where Behemoth first shows up. Which makes me feel like Endbringers with the possible exception of Leviathan are pretty much plot device territory.

[Sanctaphrax]

They are pretty massively overpowered. But keep reading! Surprises are in store!

Depending on how you look at it, the second half of Crushed either proves the Behemoth is beyond stats or proves the opposite.

That aside, it's kind of nice to know that this thread has given Worm at least one new reader. Not sure why fan-evangelism (fangelism?) is satisfying, but it is.

[Hick Jr]

I am also a fresh made Worm reader. Currently on about 6.9

[KnightOrbis]

And for Fog I was thinking a upgrade of Gaseous Form that the maneuvers inflict something like the POISONED aspect, and or BLINDED for a simple solution.

[Taran]

I just started it and am now hooked.

[Hick Jr]

Given that Leviathan's afterimage is constantly creating water for him to play with, is a Myrk-esque power appropriate?