Sunday, 17 January 2021

Character Creation Challenge 17: TOON

31 Day Character Creation Challenge

17: TOON

I restarted running a game tonight, so something very light.

TOON is the third RPG I ever ran after Fighting Fantasy and a disastrous attempt at MERP, and that pretty much set my rules-lightness preferences going forward. Greg Costikyan went on to design d6 Star Wars, so this has an important heritage too, a major step in genre emulation.

Cap’n Quack
Starting randomly, I roll on the basic species table and get Duck, and on the Occupation table get Pirate.

I’ll go with point-based Attributes rather than the 1D6 roll.

Attributes
Muscle 3
Zip 4
Smarts 2
Churzpah 5

Hit Points 9

Description
A cartoon duck in a cartoon pirate outfit. He wears an eyepatch but isn’t consistent about which eye he covers it with.

Natural Enemies
The Navy, led by his arch-rival Francis The Drake

Beliefs & Goals
I’m the best pirate you’ve ever heard of. What do you mean, you’ve never heard of me?
Collect shiny things!

Skills
(30 extra points on Skills - also pay for Shticks)

Muscle 3
Break Down Door
Climb 4
Fight 7
Pick Up Heavy Thing
Throw 4

Zip 4
Dodge 7
Drive
Fire Gun 7
Jump 6
Ride
Run 5
Swim 8

Smarts 2
Hide / Spot Hidden 4
Identify Dangerous Thing 4
Read
Resist Fast-Talk
See / Hear / Smell 3
Set / Disarm Trap 4
Track / Cover Tracks

Chutzpah 5
Fast-Talk 6
Pass / Detect Shoddy Goods
Sleight Of Hand
Sneak 6

Shticks
Detect Gold (2)

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