Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

[zeth]

I notice there are a lot of Charisma penalty and few bonuses. Also many people stock up on charisma hindrances unless being a social character. This gave me an idea!

Orion Force had personality as your Charisma stat and each + gave you a free contact or each - gave you a free negative contact. The reason for this is your character presumable made friends or pissed people off in life before his adventure. Using this concept I now add the house rules Contacts.

For each + you have in charisma you get a bonus contact and for each - you get a temporary foe. So charismatic characters get a little help and uncharismatic characters fight a little harder. Unlike the hinderance enemy these guys 'go away' after you resolve your encounter with them and you don't gain a new one. They are plot hooks already paid for by the charisma hindrance you took. Likewise the ally is used once and is paid for by the charisma bonus. You''l need to help them or make persuasion rolls for future favors thus MORE plot hooks.

The contacts vary by setting but assign 20 different jobs on a d20 and roll once for each +1 or minus 1on charisma and note it. Then fit the extra in when needed. For exaqmple the GM decides the cop your dealing with just happens to be the same cop your character rolled for having +2 charisma and cuts you a one time brake. Here is a generic list.

1.Bounty Hunter
2. Beat cop/Guard
3. Detective
4.Mechanic/craftsman
5.Spy
6. Lesser Politician/Noble
7. Blue collar worker
8.Performer/Bard
9.Scholar
10. Genie
11. Mercenary
12.Sailor
13.Business Person/Shop keeper
14. Thief
15. Greater Noble(King,Queen,etc.)/President
16.Snitch
17.Courier
18.Ship Captain
19.Military Officer
20. Wild Card Character

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[zeth]

So in short my idea sucks? o.o

[Wiggy]

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[Bill]

I like the idea of each negative point of charisma being an enemy (non-regenerating and not neccessarily life threatening - the person just doesn't like you so they interfer with you or goes out of their way to make fun of your looks) especially if the player refuses to have his character interact with any NPCs. It seems to me a fair way of showing the hindrance side of the penalty and giving the character more depth.

The bonus for Charisma is actually pretty helpful in moving NPCs toward helpful/friendly status and comes up pretty frequently so I would not give any kind of bonus contacts for these, they will develop naturally.
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