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Posted by: Savar Jul 30 2017, 07:44 PM

Me not know mom. Me found on bridge in Zen garden. Munk raise me. Me sleep under bridge was found on.

Me watch people running, jumping, climbing, fighting. Me get older me copy moves. Me do what gardener tells me to do me get food.

All time under bridge at night me starts to change. Me becoming a small dragon like thing. Me looks wrong me has wings.

Me needs to see streets gardener said. Gardener said me still sleep under bridge. Gardener tell me gangs. Me look to find words to talk like gardener.

Name Bridge
GM looking
Method point buy

Troll 90
Adept 20
Drake 75
Drake mastery 50
Flight 14
Transcendent form 25
=Total 274

Bod 7 65
Agi 5 70
Rea 3(6) 25
Str 7 65
Wil 5 70
Log 2 10
Int 4 45
Cha 2 10
=Total 360

Edg 3 25
Ess 6
Mag 4 45
=Total 70
Powers
Improved reflexes 3
Combat Sense 1

Initiative Rea+Int 10+4D6

Mental [(LogX2)+Int+Wil]/3(rnd up): 5
Physical [(StrX2)+Bod+Rea]/3(rnd up): 9
Social [(ChaX2)+Wil+Ess]/3(rnd up): 5

Free knowledge/language 2×(Log+Int) 12
English N
Japanese 2
Chinese 2
Interest meditation techniques 4
Interest Zen gardens 4
Seattle Street gangs 2 3
Unarmed Combat 6 42
Athletics 5 75
=Total 120

Free contracts (Cha×3) 6
Temple gardener 2/4

Qualities total +25
Computer Illiterate +7
Uneducated +8
Hobo with a shotgun +10

Buy Cash 2000¥ 1
=Total 1
Squatter 2000¥ (2) Months

Cash 2D6×40¥

Posted by: KCKitsune Jul 31 2017, 04:06 AM

I understand you're trying to go for the "Uneducated Troll", but with an Log of 2, he's just dim, not mentally handicapped.

Posted by: Savar Jul 31 2017, 01:17 PM

I wasn't trying to make him truly dumb. He is not used to taking that much. The lack of technology exposure hurts allot. The lack of education in all areas is supposed to make him look dumb, but he is just slow.

If he was ever played I would play him trying to learn stuff (buy off the uneducated and computer illiterate qualitys). One other thing would be to buy sensei quality, maybe do that 1st, then his sensei could tell him he needs to learn computers and such.

Posted by: Savar Dec 18 2017, 03:44 AM

Just reread the drake creation rules, bridge is illegal, can't buy additional drake powers at char creation.

One question I have is how big are Drakes?

Posted by: SpellBinder Dec 18 2017, 05:25 AM

From the section on "The Practicalities Of Being A Drake" in Howling Shadows, probably not that much larger than whatever their metahuman body is (not counting tail, and maybe wings). Certainly nothing like how dragonborn drakes were portrayed in previous editions. Likely something like Bruce Banner/Incredible Hulk, but on a lesser scale.

Posted by: Bodak Dec 18 2017, 06:00 AM

Although the whole "Me tarzan me not know the difference between nominative and accusative" is a typical way of demonstrating someone is functionally illiterate, it also is an error made by many popular music artists who haven't bothered to get their lyrics proof-read by native speakers:
Certainly to some of us this suggests the lyricist is mentally handicapped, although in this specific case the wrong word is likely chosen in order to force a rhyme.

Very likely by the 2070s nominative and accusative will be unified and everybody will only be using either "I" or "me" ubiquitously and indistinguishably. Another couple of hundred years later, the missing word will make a come-back by popular demand. Just recall how "thee" is informal singular and "you" is formal plural; "thee" was abandoned; now "yous" has been coined to be the plural of "you"! It's as bad as https://web.archive.org/web/20090131101116/http://winterson.com:80/2009/01/episode-iii-backstroke-of-west-redux.html.

Posted by: Lionesque Dec 19 2017, 01:46 PM

@ Bodak: Yeah, it hurts

when people don't write good, even though they pressident has the best words