Khyron's NPC folder

[khyron1144]

We are cmapaign builders and DMs.  We all have bloated NPC folders.  Here's a place to share and critique entries from our NPC folders.

To start off here's one for Mayfair's DC Heroes system:
[spoiler=Tatters]Character Name: Tatters         Alter Ego:  None
Occupation:  Hobo Vigilante    Wealth: 4
Motivation: Seeking Justice

DEX: 4     STR: 12      BODY: 14
INT: 5       WILLL: 5    MIND: 7
INFL: 8     AURA: 10   SPIRIT: 15
Initiative: 21      Hero Points: 406

Powers:
Claws: 22
Regeneration: 7
Dimension Travel: 6
Sorcery: 12


Skills:
Martial Artist: 18
Thief (Escape Artist, Stealth): 11
Occultist: 8


Advantages:
Area Knowledge (The Dreaming), Area Knowledge (Hell), Scholar (Immortality Magic), Connection: The Sandman (Low), Connection: Swamp Thing (Low), Connection: Mystical Coomunity (Low), Lightning Reflexes

Drawbacks: Strange Appearance

Equipment:  Armoring Ritual:
Effect: Skin Armor 10
Casting Time: 8 APs
Necessary Components: (turtle shell, snake scale, iron dust) Cost 6 APs
Hero Point Cost to learn: 25


Background:  Victor Frankenstein was real.  Copies of his journals and notes are circulated by an occultist/ scientist underground community that now spans the globe.  Once in a while someone decides to retry The Experiment.  Tatters is the result of a recent attempt.

His creator was definitely a little more on the occultist side of the line.  His orignial name is unknown; he operates under the shadow name of Victor Henry West in an attempt to draw on the psychic resonance of literary mad scientists.  Victor Henry West dug up, cut up, and stitched together corpses and then animated them in a bizarre ritual.

The thing that arose on the slab is Tatters.  Tatters doesn't know who his component parts come from, but the phenomenon of muscle memory leads him to bleieve that at least one donor was a superb martial artist or possibly a costumed vigilante.

One question that plagues Tatters is whether or not he has a soul.  The fact that he displays emotion and free will seems to say yes.  As does the fact that he is capable of using sorcery.  On the other hand, when he's had occasion to visit Hell, the demons taunt him with riddles and hints of his possible soullesness.

In his wanderings he has met Dream and aided him.  He's also worked alongside much of the Earth's Mystical community, including Swamp Thing, to avert a disaster.

He has recently arrived in the city of Hexen and is trying to keep as low a profile as he can.

Description: Tatters is close to seven feet tall, very heavily built and covered in scars.  There are odd bits of metal embedded in his flesh where the electrodes attached.  His fingertips end in metallic claws.  His complexion is quite unusually pale.

He doesn't talk much, but he has a very solid, looming presence.  His voice is quite deep and usually rarely raised much past a whisper.

He dresses almost exclusively in browns and blacks.  He doesn't sweat as the normally living do, so he changes clothes infrequently, often wearing one set of clothing util it is covered in grime and ragged around the edges.

Personality:  Looking at him, one would expect Tatters to regularly fly into rages and smash things.  One would be wrong.  Tatters is quite gentle until given reason to be otherwise.  Even when angered, his anger is a chilly thing, not fiery.

Tatters has a very keen sense of fairness.  This more than anything is what makes hime one of the good guys.  He does what he can to right wrongs and reward kindness.  He will hold a grudge.[/spoiler]

[khyron1144]

A fresh creation for White Wolf's Vampire: the Masquerade:

[spoiler=Malice]Name: Malice      
Player: The GM
Chronicle: Island City
Nature: Fanatic
Demeanor: Architect
Concept: Scary Wizard
Sire: Lord of the Mountains
Generation: 5th
Clan: Old Clan Tzimisce

Strength: 2
Dexterity: 3
Stamina: 3

Charisma: 3
Manipulation: 5
Appearance: 3

Perception: 4
Intelligence: 5
Wits: 4

Acting: 2
Alertness: 2
Dodge: 2
Intimidation: 4
Empathy: 1
Subterfuge: 2

Melee: 3
Etiquette: 2
Stealth: 2
Survival: 2

Occult: 5
Linguistics: 4
Koldunism: 5
Astrology: 3
Alechemy: 2
Paleography: 2
Bureaucracy: 1
Law: 1

Auspex 5
Koldunioc Sorcery: The Way of Earth 5
Thaumatugy: Path of the Focused Mind 4
Domination 3
Animalism 2

Generation 5
Age 5
Resources 5
Status 2
Allies 5

Conviction 5
Self-Control 5
Courage 5

Path of the Scorched Heart 5
Willpower 8

Knows at least the following Thaumaturgy rituals:
Level 1:  The Scribe
Level 2:  Steps of the Terrified
Level 3:  A touch of Nightshade
Level 4: Rend the Mind

At a minimum of 750 years active undead existence there's a lot of potential for him to have learnt a lot more rituals.

I'm still looking to see what Koldunic rituals I like for him.

Descriptive stuff:  Malice is obviously and adopted shadow name.  He does not talk his history too much other than ocasionally referring to himself as the childe of the Lord of the Mountains.  One thing that is obvious to those who have seen him in action and lived to speak of it is that Malice is powerful and thus ancient.

Currently his closest ally in Island City is Aurawn, a Sidhe who is known for his scary levels of mastery of fae magics.  What the two of them could plot together is a mystery.

Although his most obvious use is as an antagonist the potential for him to be an ally, mentor, or information resource is interesting too. [/spoiler]

[khyron1144]

One for Changeling: the Dreaming.  This one's a work in progress and a thought experiment.  I'm essentially trying to create a Cahngeling equivalent to a Vampire elder.

[spoiler=Aurawn]Name: Aurawn      
Player: The GM
Chronicle: Island City
Legacies: Fatalist/ Hermit
Concept: Old, Powerful Changeling Who Thinks He's A God
Romantic Legacies: Tormentor/ Jongleur
Political Impulse: Repudiator
Kith: Sidhe
Seeming: Grump
House: Daireann

Strength: 3
Dexterity: 5
Stamina: 5

Charisma: 4
Manipulation: 5
Appearance: 4

Perception: 5
Intelligence: 5
Wits: 5

Alertness: 3
Dodge: 2
Intimidation: 5
Kenning: 5
Empathy: 1
Persuasion: 2
Subterfuge: 5


Melee: 4
Etiquette: 2
Leadership: 2
Survival: 2
Temporal Sense: 3

Occult: 2
Enigmas: 3
Gremayre: 5
Linguistics: 2
Dreamlore: 3
Changeling Lore: 5

Arts:
Sovereign: 5
Chronos: 5
Primal: 5
Soothsay: 5
Pyretics: 5
Spirit Link: 5
Wayfare: 5
Naming: 5

Backgrounds:
Title: 3
Trod: 5
Holdings: 3
Remembrance: 5
Prestige: 3

Realms:
Actor: 5
Fae: 5
Nature: 5
Prop: 5
Scene: 5

Glamour: 10
Willpower: 10
Banality: 5



Descriptive stuff:  Aurawn claims to be the Celtic God of the Underworld.  Nobdy knows which possibility is scarier: that he's right, or that an entity of his level of power is stark raving mad.  The fact that his best buddy is an ancient vampire-sorcerer who goes by the name Malice is not exactly comforting either.

One thing that is known is that he's not a returned Sidhe, come back during the Resurgance.  He was always here on Earth in his small home freehold, waiting out the long years.  He finds it amusing to interact with other fae again.

He was on The Island before there was a city there.  He knew Cycorax during her reign of terror over The Island's natives and they were on good terms with each other.  Even Aerial, the spirit, backs up this story.  However, he harbors no real animosity towards Prospero or Aerial and does not seem overly fond of Caliban.

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[khyron1144]

[spoiler=Wiley]
Name: Wiley
Player: The Storyteller
Chronicle: Island City
Court: Seelie
Legacies: Sage/ Fatalist
House: N/A
Seeming: Wilder
Kith: Nocker
Motley:  Prometheus Tech

Strength:2
Dexterity: 4
Stamina: 2

Charisma: 2
Manipulation:2
Appearance: 2

Perception: 2
Intelligence: 5
Wits: 3
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