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Joe the Shadow Thief
Setting: Modern

ST: 10 [0]; DX: 10 [0]; IQ: 12 [20]; HT: 10 [0]

Advantages: Alertness +1 [5]; Charisma +1 [5]; Image (Limitations: 3x per day, Takes extra time x4, Costs 2 Fatigue) [10]; Shadow Form (Always on; Heavy Encumbrance) [0]

Disadvantages: Callous [-6]; Jealousy [-10];  Greed [-15]; Loner [-5]

Skills: Acting-12 [2]; Area Knowledge (Miami)-14 [4];  Fast-Talk-13 [4]; Savoir-Faire-12 [1]; Singing-11 [2]; Stealth-11 [4]; Streetwise-13 [4]

Gear: None

Notes: This NPC is a small-time thief who was afflicted by some cosmic event (GM's choice). While he can now get into just about any place and take about anything he wants, he has no real way to enjoy his spoils.



Joe the Executioner
Setting: Fantasy

ST: 13 [30]; DX: 11 [10]; IQ: 9 [-10]; HT: 10 [0]

Advantages: Social Status +1 [5]

Disadvantages: Fat [-20]; Odious Personal Habit (Gallows humor with puns) [-10];

Skills: Brawling-12 [2]; Carousing-10 [2]; Professional Skill: Executioner-12 [8]; Two-Handed Axe/Mace-12 [4]; Two-Handed Sword-12 [4]

Gear: Great axe (2d+2 cut), blunt two-handed sword (2d+2 cut/1d+2 cr), hood, black pants, boots

Notes: Note that, while his weapon skills are not very high, he normally gets the +4 bonus for attacking an inanimate object, so he'll only fail on a critical failure.



Joe the Shakespearean Actor
Setting: Modern

ST: 10 [0]; DX: 11 [10]; IQ: 11 [10]; HT: 10 [0]

Advantages: None

Disadvantages: Odious Personal Habit (Habitually quotes Shakespeare) [-5]; Wealth (Struggling) [-10]

Skills: Bicycle-12 [2]; Literature (Shakespeare)-15/9 [2]; Make-Up-12 [1]; Performance-13 [6]; Professional Skill: Waiter-12 [4]; Scene Design-11 [1]; Stage Combat-12 [4]

Gear: As per role

Notes: This NPC is a modestly capable actor (in his night job). Uses include a hostage and a potential zombie victim.



Jane the Professor of Magic Theory
Setting: Fantasy

ST: 9 [-10]; DX: 8 [-15]; IQ: 15 [60]; HT: 9 [-10]

Advantages: Magic Resistance +5 [10]; Tenure [5]

Disadvantages: Cowardice [-10]; Curious [-5]; Dwarfism [-15]; Sense of Duty (Students) [-5]; Skinny [-5]

Skills: Alchemy-12 [1]; Astrology-14 [2]; Bard-14 [1]; Botany-13 [1]; First Aid-15 [1]; Heraldry-14 [1]; History (Magic)-20/14 [4]; Teaching-15 [2]; Thaumatology-15 [8]; Weird Magic-13 [2]; Writing-14 [1]; Zoology-13 [1]

Gear: Robe, hat, boots, books and scrolls

Notes: This whizzened old NPC is a professor teaching the theory and history of magic -- without being able to use magic herself.