You can definitely pick a couple of these now if you want, but the rules explicitly recommend leaving most of your slots open and then picking when it's relevant in the game ("we need to follow up on this clue in an isolated village in Papua New Guinea?  Well of course I speak Sisibna!")

Okay!
Thanks.

BTW: I speak Sisibna IRL!
(joking: I believe never even heard of that language...)

Working Antoine's crunch up.

I do know that he's a Mule and Wheel Artist at least. :)

Former member of la Surete, and the DGSE (French CIA)...

One thing of note, I planned on one of his covers having been involved in the art world.

Thoughts?

Vive Antoine Lecœur !

Very nice.

Here is what those templates look like (and keep in mind that these are just suggestions for how to spend your points):

Mule
Investigative abilities - Bureaucracy 1, Forgery 1, Negotiation 2, Outdoor Survival
or Urban Survival 1, Streetwise 1
Alternates: Archaeology, Art History
General abilities - Conceal 8, Driving 4, Piloting 2, Surveillance 4
Alternates: Cover

Wheel Artist
Investigative abilities - Cop Talk 2, Streetwise 2, Urban Survival 2
Alternates: Electronic Surveillance
General abilities - Driving 10, Mechanics 4, Piloting 4
Alternates: Sense Trouble, Surveillance

As for covers, it looks like you might have already glanced a the rules for how they work, but I'll put a quick summary in the Rules thread shortly.

Here's a table showing what each character has (so far). Note that these can still be changed. I don't know what templates would fill in the 'blanks', though. Looks like we need a Con Artist and an Outdoorsy type.

Hi all, last minute addition here!

My initial thought had been to go down the medical doctor route but it looks like that niche might already have been filled. From descriptions seems like the team might be lacking some muscle so might have a think about what I can do around that. Ex-military background might also tick some of the outdoorsy skills too.

Or how about a conspiracy survivalist! You just KNOW the Zombie Apocalypse is coming!

Ooh I like that idea!

But how is a conspiracy survivalist involved with the intelligence community?

Btw, Tyr, thanks for that table!

You're welcome.


If he believes in zombies, he probably believes in vampires, too! He's our vampire expert! He's got the wooden stakes, silver bullets, garlic, crosses, holy water, etc.

Wonderful...

Fair point. Maybe conspiracy survival prepping is a side issue for him. He's a former black ops type who saw too much (maybe something he killed just didn't stay dead) which drove him into conspiracy theories and the like. He works with the group because you've got to fund your  supply of holy water somehow!

Sure, I'm sold.

How is everybody doing on char gen by the way?  Think we might be ready to start the action this weekend?  It's okay if you're not 100% done by then, as long as you've got things mostly figured out.

Okay, I will finish the character today then.
I just thought that we were supposed to organize covering all the different abilities so was waiting for that (but since I am not even on the table I will just move on).

Rob, you can talk about which abilities you want and copy the table to add your ideas into it (or exact numbers if you have them figured out).  As long as you take at least a few of the ones that are currently blank we should be fine.  If, at the end of this, there are any Investigative abilities that all four of you have skipped, then we can talk about either someone rearranging some points to cover the gap, or all of you as a group choosing to neglect that one and then hoping you won't need it any time soon (someone can always buy it with xp later in the game).

And if you feel like you're really not going to be ready in the next couple days then that's okay.  I'm excited about the game but I can wait if you guys need more time.

I already listed all that.

Sorry - it looks like Rob and Antoine got switched in the original table, so looking at it with insufficient memory and caffeine I got confused about whose stats were up and who is still working on theirs.  I think this version is more accurate for what we've discussed so far?

Oops! How the hell did that happen? ;-)

We got infilitrated.
There is a mole.

Thanks!

(I forgot to add in the 1 Streetwise and 1 Tradecraft).
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General Abilities

4 - Athletics
0 - Conceal
7 - Cover
4 - Digital Intrusion
0 - Disguise
0 - Driving
0 - Explosive Devices
4 - Filch
0 - Gambling
1 - Hand-to-Hand
0 - Infiltration
4 - Mechanics
8 - Medic (MOS)
8 - Network
0 - Piloting
4 - Preparedness
8 - Sense Trouble
8 - Shooting
4 - Shrink
4 - Surveillance
1 - Weapons
8 - Health
8 - Stability

You can also put these points into raising Health and Stability if you'd like (and you probably should).
So that is +8 Health & +8 Stability

There is no limit to how many points you can spend in any one ability, except that it cannot be more than twice as high as your second-highest.
That works for Cover and Network too? (so, in my case, I can only have 8 max' in one of the two?).

Then I assign points to various Covers and Networks, correct?
Like:
Cover @4 = John Bubba, traveling medical salesman who yadda, yadda...
Network @1 = a friend who is reporter for the BBC...

Sources of stability:
• Mia Zwartnacht ; the daughter of my GF, that Rob adopted (works for a car rental service-- abroad?)
• Bart Zwarnacht ; younger brother (a plumber/electrician)
• Jenny Sorman ; used to be my secretary at AIVD, for the last 12 years

Symbol - a small gold caduceus on a neck chain (given to Rob by his mom when he graduated and became an MD)

Solace - Mona Mooi ; my girlfriend (runs a food delivery service)

Safety - family beach cabin (the place Rob went to w. his parents & his brother as a kid. He co-owns it w. his brother Bart) a small cabin in the dunes

Drive - I had discovering the Mystery before (he traveled a lot, studied history, languages, and maybe guesses there are Vampires, or something Occult?)

Gear - a pencil stuck over his ear, a handgun in his jacket pocket, and his medical bag in hand...

Tell me if anything is stupid, or if I am missing a key thing to survive...
This message was last edited by the player at 18:05, Fri 21 Aug 2020.

This is what I've got thus far:

Name: Galen Ives
Background: Wet Work
Drive: Slayer (what killed his old team is unnatural and must be destroyed!)
Sources of stability
-Symbol: A crumpled photo of his old black-ops team; he is the only survivor.
-Solace: Joanna Ives, his niece who lives in Birmingham, UK.
-Safety: Cottage in the countryside outside Paris. Where he keeps his eclectic supply of guns and survivalist paraphernalia.

MoS - Shooting

Health: 10/10         Stability: 8/8

Investigative Abilities:
Accounting __/__           Bullshit Detector __/__     Astronomy __/__
Archaeology  __/__         Bureaucracy __/__           Chemistry _1_/_1_
Architecture _1_/_1_       Cop Talk __/__              Cryptography __/__
Art History __/__          Flattery __/__              Data Recovery __/__
Criminology __/__          Flirting __/__              Electronic Surveillance __/__
Diagnosis __/__            High Society __/__          Forensic Pathology __/__
History __/__              Interrogation _1_/_1_       Forgery __/__
Human Terrain _2_/_2_      Intimidation _2_/_2_        Notice _2_/_2_
Languages _1_/_1_          Negotiation __/__           Outdoor Survival _2_/_2_
Law __/__                  Reassurance __/__           Pharmacy __/__
Military Science _2_/_2_   Streetwise _2_/_2_          Photography __/__
Occult Studies _1_/_1_     Tradecraft _3_/_3_          Traffic Analysis _1_/_1_
Research _1_/_1_                                       Urban Survival _1_/_1_
Vampirology _1_/_1_

General Abilities:
Athletics 10/10            Filch __/__                 Piloting __/__
Conceal 2/2                Gambling __/__              Preparedness 5/5
Cover 15/15                Hand-to-Hand 8/8            Sense Trouble __/__
Digital Intrusion __/__    Infiltration 5/5            Shooting 10/10
Disguise 3/3               Mechanics 2/2               Shrink __/__
Driving 3/3                Medic __/__                 Surveillance 5/5
Explosive Devices 5/5      Networking 15/15            Weapons __/__

I should have my stats up tomorrow. I think Antoine will have Cleaner, Mule and Wheelman as his background... (although still a toss-up between Cleaner and Wet Work... (if can’t tell, am basing Antoine on the Jason Statham’s Transporter :) )

Here's Tyr's Abilities. I adjusted his Investigative Abilities a bit. I was thinking of making his MOS Preparedness.

I see I did not read well enough: it is 15 in each of Cover/Networking (so have to have 8 min' in the other for the max' level being double to the 2nd highest?).