Homemade Negative Qualities, Yours, mine, ours? Options

[bibliophile20]

[bibliophile20]

Here, I thought of this when I was tweaking the Dependent Quality above:

Shallow End of the Gene Pool:
Bonus: 10-15-20-25-30-35 BP
You’re not stupid… just “challenged” as they like to say, but whatever it is, the light of intelligence does not even glimmer in your eyes, and the speed of your thoughts can sometimes be outdistanced by an ambitious snail. If you open a wikitionary for the definition of “dim-witted” you’d see a holo of yourself there.
Characters with this Quality suffer a permanent reduction of their Attributes; for each level, the character’s maximum Reaction, Logic or Intuition can be reduced by 1 to a maximum of 3 levels. Additionally, the character suffers a 50% Karma cost increase for skills linked with that attribute, i.e. a character with a decrease of 1 or 2 in Logic would suffer a 150% or 200% increase respectively in Karma costs for Academic Knowledge, Professional Knowledge or a Mechanic skill.

[ornot]

[Moon-Hawk]

[ShadowDragon8685]

Remember, the DM is allowed to give you a different 20-point flaw if you try those shennanigans.

So maybe as they're clearing out your desk, they find evidence of your criminal deeds, and you can replace a 20 point flaw (Day Job) with another 20 point (Criminal SIN) flaw. :)

Also, Hospitalization is 500 :nuyen: per day. That's 30,000 a year.

[lorechaser]

[Moon-Hawk]

Yes, all that stuff would definitely be a pain. But you get money for it.

[cetiah]

[BookWyrm]

Let me try something....

Comedic Relief/Non-Relief
This can go either way: as a Positive Quality, the character can make the right kind of joke at the right time, amusing to everyone. As a Negative Quality, the joke makes those hearing it groan in mock pain.

[Nasrudith]

[Grinder]

I don't think that a character can work 60 hours a week and work as a runner too.

[lorechaser]

[Kyoto Kid]

[BookWyrm]

[Kyoto Kid]

...by the same token, if you think of think of Hank McCoy (AKA the Beast from Marvel's X-Men) you have the positive version.

[lorechaser]

Ponderous (5/10 pt negative qual):

Whether it takes you a minute to get up to speed, or you just can't be bothered to hustle anywhere, you're more like the tortoise than the hare.

The 5 point version reduces your running rate to 2/3 normal for your metatype (16 for humans, 14 for dwarves, 23 for trolls). The 10 point version also reduces your walking rate (8/5/10).

Pack Rat's Pockets (5 point positive quality)

You are forever picking up and storing minor items in your pockets, bags and pretty much anywhere you can.

Any time you need a non-combat item that costs less than 20 nuyen, you can find it in one of your pockets. If the GM rules that the item is particularly uncommon, or you are unlikely to have it, you must roll at least one success on an Edge test.

If you spend a point of Edge, the limit is increased to 50 nuyen, as you just so happened to pick up a white noise generator that you saw in a trash can last week....

The GM is free to limit the use of this power, and the items should never be used to simply make a profit for the character, except in rare circumstances.

Luck (10-30 point positive quality)

You were born under a lucky star, got the right genes, or just happen to fall the right way.

You have a special attribute that others don't - Luck, which is ranked 1-3 (10 points per point of Luck). Once per game session, you or the GM may call for a Luck roll. If successful, something good happens, as appropriate to the situation. You may state, generally, what you'd like to occur, but the Finger of Fate is Fickle. You can't always get what you want, but sometimes, you get what you need.

This should never be a game altering event, but should be something that lets your character come out just a little bit ahead. Maybe he noticed that the data file you just stole was only half the file. Maybe he happened to stumble at just the right time, and the troll behind him was the one that took the first shot. Maybe he was the one that saw the solid gold lighter on the wageslave's desk.


Golden Boy (10-30 point positive quality).

The world is your mollusck of choice. When everyone else's gun is jamming, yours is firing flawlessly. When the other mages can't remember the words to a simple manabolt, you're phrasing yours in euclidian poetry. Whatever it is, you just don't mess up as often.

Pick a particular category of rolls (Combat, Social, Magic, Hacking, etc). Your need one more 1 to glitch per point of this quality (it is effectively Gremlins in reverse).


This last one is a big funky, but I like it. I'm not sure it's balanced or not, though.

Even-keeled (0 point quality).

Great things just don't seem to happen to you. Then again, tragedy seems to give you a miss as well. You're just, well, even.

Any critical glitch you roll is automatically converted to a normal glitch. However, any time you spend Edge before a roll, you don't reroll sixes. And if you spend Edge to reroll failures, you only succeed on a roll of 6, rather than 5 or 6.

[BookWyrm]

oops, sorry. This was a mispost.

[BookWyrm]

[Kyoto Kid]

[Kyoto Kid]

...another one for thought

Infirm (the old way) Physical -5 ,-10, -15, -20, -25

For each level of this quality the character's unaugmented racial max for physical attributes is lowered by 1. Augmented caps are adjusted accordingly. This quality is not compatable with Exceptional Attribute.

[Demon_Bob]

[Demon_Bob]

Was wondering what you all thought of these?


Positive

10ea - Ace - +1 die to all piloting skill tests per level.

5 - College Education – Removes Default penalty for Academic Knowledge Skills

5 ea– Daredevil - Gives +1 dice for use in edge related tests that can only be used in a Heroically risky action

10ea – Dragon Blood - Negates total spell sustaining penalties by 1 per 10 points. So at 20 points sustaining 1 spell has a -0 die penalty to all actions; Sustaining 2 spells has a- 2 die penalty. As a person’s blood & body has one or more exotic compounds that make them inherently more magical, Talismongers may want some of their body parts for use in creating Foci.

5 - Linguist – ½ costs to buy or improve language skills

5 ea - Good Reputation - +1 die per level on all social Tests. Character must have lived in the area for a number of months equal to the level of her reputation to receive the full benefit from it.

10- Pirate Family – You have an extended group of friends throughout many cities, that you can try to look up for aid. These friends, however, may also
appear and ask for help at otherwise inopportune times. Player needs to
describe nature of family and how he acquired them. (ex. They were once members of my squad back when I was in the military. All the drek we went experienced together created a lasting bond.)

5- School of Hard Knocks – Removes street penalty for Street Knowledge skills.

5- Sense of Direction – Character always knows which way is north. Adds +1 die for Navigation tests.

10- ea Spike Resistance - +1 die per level to resist Black IC, Dump Shock, ect.

5- Trade School Education – Removes default penalty for either Mechanical or Electrical skill group.

Negative

10 + Amnesia – Doesn’t mean that you can’t write a background just that you can’t Remember it. However, if you want to take this and let “Evil GM” write your background go ahead.

5= Color Blind - -2 die whenever a test is used where coloration is important. Can not differentiate between the different types of camouflage clothing.

5+ Combat Monster - Composure Test (3) to withdraw from battle.

??+ Deaf – I have no idea how much this should cost, or what it should all entail. At the least some negative modifiers to perception, social skills, and spoken language tests.

10+ Distinctive Features - Character stands out from the crowd and receives a - 2 die modifier to disguise and shadowing tests, as well as a +2 die modifier to be followed and remembered.

20+ Flashbacks – Composure Test (3) whenever exposed to flashback trigger. Triggering condition must be frequent enough to appear at least once per game session. During Flashbacks character is incapacitated for (2*net failures) in combat turns.

5+ Night Blind – Increases Partial light penalties by 2.

5+ One Eye – Lack of depth perception imposes a -2 die modifier on all ranged tests.

??+ Phobias – Buy like Allergies.
Mild imposes a -2 die penalty to all tests while exposed to fear.
Moderate requires a Composure Test (2) to remain in vicinity of object causing fear, and -4 die to all tests except Athletics group while phobic condition exists.
Severe requires a Composure Test (3) to not run away screaming, and -6 die to all tests except for those skills in the Athletics Group.

?? +- Unknown – Would defiantly make your Character’s Life more interesting.

[Luddite]

How about Unknown Enemy, which I am stealing from GURPS. In return for an extra 5BP added to the total of your Hunted flaw the character has no idea who it is that wants to kill him, in fact he has no IC knowledge of it at all.

[DTFarstar]

I'm about to play a character who is blind in a homebrew Shadowrun game. I was just wondering what you guys thought about that as a negative quality and how much points and such. A very quick synopsis is he is a mage who, with some colleagues attempted to force their way through the outside of the ozone layer and into space. Most of the rest died, but he just went blind and a little crazy. When he went out a little he ripped out his own eyes and as a result well... he's blind. He's obesessed with regaining his former power and as such refuses to replace his eyes with tech. So, he works in the astral or not at all. Since there is a semi-solution to his blindness it should be worse less, but constantly having to be astrally active is a pretty bad thing as well.

I'm thinking about combining this with Distinctive Style and having his orbital sockets fill with some color emanation, maybe a manifestation of his astral eyes or something, as his distinction, along with the not having eyes of course. It could be covered up, but only really by turning off astral sight, which as mentioned is bad for him.

Anyway, just wanted some feedback on this. I would appreciate it.


Chris

[Demon_Bob]