31 Buffy The Vampire Slayer characters
29: The Fortune Teller
A player character who can see the future can be difficult to GM. So, naturally, here we go.
Best to discuss uses and limits with the player, and look at examples where foresight doesn’t solve mysteries immediately.
The Buffyverse has a lot of breakable and otherwise unreliable prophecies, slayers sometimes have prophetic dreams, Doyle and Cordelia in Angel get not-entirely-helpful visions to introduce weekly plots, and Buffy season seven introduced someone who could reliably see a little bit of the future, including when she was going to die, and a little bit past that.
A more controllable version gives advantages in fights, lets the Director hand the PCs ominous warnings of future events. Perhaps it could be bigged up to the point of borrowing another game’s flashback mechanics to rewind a disastrous series of events as a vision of a future that must be prevented. That would be a good use of a couple Drama Points for a Plot Twist.
And how else would it affect you as a person, sometimes knowing what’s going to happen? Would it make you bold or cautious, as you see one path and know you can change it but the results then become unpredictable?
Andrea Dell’Amico
Type: White Hat
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| Zoey Luna |
Description: unsurprised
Example quote: “Saw that one comin’.”
Andi has been able to see the future since she turned thirteen. Sometimes in sudden flashes, sometimes on purpose. And when she saw the world possibly ending and a bunch of kids she kind of knew from school charging in to stop it, she figured she should tell them.
Strength 2
Dexterity 2
Constitution 2
Intelligence 4
Perception 4
Willpower 3
Skills (15 + 1 from Artist + 2 from Drawbacks)
Acrobatics 1
Art 1
Computers 1
Crime 0
Doctor 1
Driving 1
Getting Medieval 1
Gun Fu 0
Influence 2
Knowledge 3
Kung Fu 1
Languages 0
Mr. Fix-It 1
Notice 3
Occultism 2
Science 0
Sports 0
Wild Card 0
Qualities (10 + 4 from Drawbacks)
Artist (2)
Attractiveness 2 (2)
Fast Reaction Time (2)
Fortune Telling (from Angel) (5)
Psychic Visions (1)
Situational Awareness (2)
Drawbacks (6)
Adversary (things that want to steal my eyes to see the future) (2)
Emotional Problems (Fear of Commitment) (1)
Secret (no, I can’t get the lotto numbers) (3)
Life Points 26
Drama Points 20
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