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Disadvantages

These are compensations that give you more points to spend on other areas of your Role-Player! character. They drag the character down further into this murky genre, making him into a more stereo-typical and, ultimately, unacceptable Role-Player! Naturally, this list is a lengthy one.

Overweight -5 pts

Skeletally thin -5 pts

Impaired vision -5 pts

Dysfunctional back -10 pts

Long hair with incipient bald patch (male only) -5 pts

One arm slightly over-developed None

Genuine resemblance to genre character -25 pts

Real ale fetish -5 pts

Unique personal smell -10 pts

Deviant/fetishist lifestyle -75 pts

Uses role-playing to indulge deviant fantasies -30 pts

Major delusional psychosis (believes self to be a Vampire/Dragon/Immortal/re-incarnated spirit) -50 pts

Python quotation compulsion -10 pts

Believe that Star Trek is perfect beyond questioning -15 pts

Stalker-like fixation on Buffy/Seven of Nine/Kate Bush -5 pts

Collects knives/swords in a freakishly obsessive manner -10 pts

'Eccentric' dress sense (as Dr. Who etc.) -5 pts

Writes in Martian or other unique, illegible dialect -5 pts

Always plays the same character -10 pts

Only plays multi-class/crossbreed/dual background characters -5 pts

Considers elves as the only option and not, in fact, over-powered foolery -10 pts

Is a 'biter' (female only) -10 pts

Cannot distinguish between real made up religion and their own made up religion -20 pts

Wears rubbish costume in freeforms -40 pts

Costume fascist - 'those boots are incorrectly woven!' -10 pts

Consults a Ref at every opportunity, including going to the loo -10 pts

Has a variety of 'character accents' (all of them Welsh/Pakistani) -5 pts

Has a variety of 'character accents' (some of them not Welsh/Pakistani) -10 pts

Strange Phobia (nuns, moths, pigeons, etc.) -10 pts

Plays Vampire -5 pts

Plays Live-action Vampire -15 pts

Is a Vampire -50 pts

Spends weekends on Lundy buying mead -20 pts

Tedious and poncy claim to be martial artist (including Tai Chi and other wank) -15 pts

Substance Abuser -5 pts

Rules lawyer -10 pts

Constantly complains about 'losing his nightvision' -10 pts

Unnecessarily twirls latex weapons around when 'trying them out' then hands them back saying 'Mmm, nice balance' -5 pts

Subscribes to dice theory, the erroneous belief that certain pieces of plastic are luckier than others -5 pts

Knows and applies the concept of 'oneing it up' -10 pts

Gushingly praises the role-playing/plot/fighting of others in a desperate and transparent attempt to gain reciprocal adoration and assurance -10 pts

Considers addition of purple clothing to black as 'boldly garish' -5 pts

Laughs too loudly at inappropriate moments -5 pts

Believes that the Necronomicon is real -10 pts

Is obsessed with feet and paraplegic characters -10 pts

Will get naked at the drop of a hat -10 pts