Re: HQ Beginner - Character Generation questions

From: Bryan <bethexton_at_...>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:55:48 -0000

wrote: >
>
> Okay, let's get to my specific questions (I'll include my own thoughts
> in [])
> 1. I've often read something along the lines of "Additional abilities
> start at 17 if part of a keyword". Does it make sense to list or
> narrate this ability during chargen? It seems like a waste of words to
> mention something you'll get from your keyword anyway.

The issue is that

1) you get the abilities listed in the key word
2) anything you want to raise must be listed explicitly 
3) some things that would fit into the keyword are not part of it

standard, but you might want to raise them.

To use a simple example, an entertainer gets one form of entertainment. But what if you want an entertainer to be good (i.e. you want to assign points to raise) both story telling and puppetry? You get puppetry maybe as your default, but you add story telling in your narrative, but take it as part of the key word. Even if you don't add some of your initial twenty points to it, you can then use it with modifier--a pupeteer telling a story without props would get a penalty--and it is ready to be raised without having to be cemented in play.

regards;

Bryan