Shireroth

Posted: **Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:18 pm**

Blessings and Banes are attributes your character takes upon character creation that further define your character beyond the stats. Things like "Blind" or "Deaf" are Banes, while stuff like "Direction Sense" or "Jack-of-all-Trades" are Blessings.

More on this after I brainstorm.

Posted: **Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:09 pm**

This is what I've got so far:

Gift of Gab
Jack of all Trades
Eagle's Eyes
Colorblind
Blind
Deaf
Mute
Handy
Imposing
Spirit Tongue
Technological Adept
Scientific Adept
Magical Adept
Willful
Paranoia
Athlete
Addict
Cursed Item
Inheritance
Berserker
Fugue
Night Vision
Direction Sense
Blessed
Cursed
Time Sense
Eidetic Memory
Forgetful
Born to Nobility
Long-Lived
Short-Lived
Idiot-Savant
Pack Rat
Young
Old
Short
Tall
Totem
Onespell Mage
Ever-Changing Spell
Ambidextrous
Artistically Inclined
Green Thumb
Poor
Independently Wealthy
Landowner
Well-Endowed
Plagued
Haunted
Foreigner
Tough
Magic-Resistant

Posted: **Fri Jan 27, 2006 5:13 pm**

So, basicly it's like this?

Gman Russell:

Blessings:

Born to nobility
Totem
Magic Resistant
Artistically Inclined

Curses:

Paranoia
Cursed
Haunted
Artistically Inclined

Posted: **Fri Jan 27, 2006 5:46 pm**

Yeah.

And you've got to take a certain number (probably three) blessings and banes when you create your character.

Posted: **Fri Jan 27, 2006 6:13 pm**

Three would make sense. How does one get more? and do you HAVE to have a balance after that?

Posted: **Fri Jan 27, 2006 6:32 pm**

The one running the game could theoretically grant you new blessings or banes dependent on what happens during the game.

Another possibility is assigning a point-value to each blessing and bane, and requiring that the numbers equate (or be tilted towards banes). That would be more modular, and would allow us to make 0-point blessings/banes (just little things that one could take to personalize a character).

Posted: **Fri Jan 27, 2006 7:11 pm**

Maybe. I'm not so sure about that.