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Wow.
I’M EVIL!!!
A D&D Ad I Can Get Behind
You scored as Odin.
Which Pagan God or Goddess are you most like? |
In LA Tomorrow
Advantages and Drawbacks
Your initiate has special abilities making him different
from everyone else. Little secrets from his past (and present) that few know
about. Some of these may be mundane, but others can be magical. In fact, some
could have led your initiate toward the Order. In the game, we call these
little quirks Advantages.
While Advantages—by their very definition—are helpful to
your character, Drawbacks are not. A Drawback is something bad for your
initiate. Something the GM can use to cause you trouble.
You must take at least one Advantage and one Drawback.
Each additional Drawback you take allows you to take another Advantage. You may
have a total of five Advantages and five Drawbacks.
If you take more Drawbacks than Advantages, you get a
number of bonus experience points at the end of each game session equal to the
difference. For example, if you have only one Advantage and three
Disadvantages, you gain two bonus experience points at the end of each game
session. For more about experience points and how to use them, see Experience (pg. XX).
Savings & Wealth
All my game design buddies tell me what they think.
Savings
The Savings Background gives you additional funds on top
of any Career income you might have. Each point of Wealth equals $10,000
available to you at the start of the game.
Wealth
Wealth is a special Background; it requires a character
already have five points of Savings.
Wealth represents moneys beyond just a savings account.
Initiates with Wealth have a vast store of cash available to them at a moment’s
notice… and even more if they’re given enough time.
Each point of Wealth provides your initiate with $50,000
of cash per game session. At the end of the game session, that sum resets. In
other words, if you spend $40,000 in one game session, you don’t get $60,000 at
the beginning of the next one. If you do spend any of the $50,000, however, your Wealth Background reduces by one
rank.
An initiate may choose to invest his $50k instead of
spending it. If he does not spend even a single nickel of his $50k, he gains
one experience point (see Experience,
pg. XX) he can put toward increasing his Wealth Background. When he has enough experience,
he may increase his Wealth Background. If he increases his Wealth Background in
this way, he receives a cash bonus of $10,000. This he may spend as he sees
fit.
My Favorite Onion Headline of All Time…
Christ Kills Two, Injures Seven In Abortion-Clinic Attack
(an oldie, but goodie)
My chat with God
Katrina as “God’s Wrath”
I’ve heard this. If you know someone who believes, please educate them with the following facts:
1) God Missed
In the wake of the hurricane, the streets of New Orleans were loaded with snipers, thieves, and rapists. If Katrina was the Hand of God wiping away the Sinful City, why did he miss these mutherfuckers?
2) Murdered Faithful
Something the media is not picking up on are the number of churches destroyed by the hurricane. Not only those “godless vodoun,” but Christians were murdered by God’s wrath. Some while in Church, praying for salvation. Obviously, they were sinners and deserved the fate they got.
3) The Walking Wounded
God saved some. And the media enjoys showing all the “survivors” who have turned to God.
How about the guy who lost both his arms? How about the blind woman? How about the woman who lost her infant son?
Punished. I don’t see anybody on TV saying, “Yeah, God did this to me, now I’m gonna kill the mutherfucker.”
I hear a lot of Christian Republicans saying “George Bush had nothing to do with the hurricane.”
Well, here’s news for them. Neither did God.