Yourself As A nWoD Character

[Cobalt]

@surreality said:

@Sundown said:

Most of us, if we apped in as ourselves, would be weird and outlandish concepts.

Agreed. The number of crafts specs alone I would need would break the sheet. Meanwhile, I'd be hard-pressed to find four whole skill dots to assign in physicals.

(Placed in mildly constructive because lets not start calling each other names.)

So what kind of stats would you have as a nWoD character? (I'm not looking for a full sheet, just like a base of skills / specialties, for funniness.)

Me? Lets see....

Crafts.I Found The Recipe On The Internet
Crafts.I Can Try To Sew That
Crafts.Random Face Sketch
Academics.I LIKE MATH
Expression.Angsty Poetry
Expression.Essays
Science.COMPUTERS!
Athletics."Champion" Walker
Athletics.Carrying Way Too Many Bolts Of Fabric

[ThatOneDude]

-> DEAD <-

[2mspris]

Socialize: Angsting Library Patrons
Socialize: Police Officers
Socialize: Family Drama Situations
Socialize: Elementary School Functions
Socialize: Small Town Gossips
Academics: Social Work
Academics: Library Science
Academics: Gaming
Academics: Child Development
Expression: Pure Romance Consultant
Athletics: Keeping up with children
Athletics: I refuse to make more than one trip from the car to the house and I can carry this all at once.
Crafts: Pinewood Derby Cars
Crafts: Cross Stitch
Computer: Google-Foo

I think I'll stop there, cause I could go on for a while with this.

[Deleted]

If I made myself as an nWoD character I'd probably give myself super high social and intelligence stats that I don't really qualify for and if you tried to tell me otherwise I'd just ragequit.

But I think most of us think of ourselves as Intelligence 5, Wits 5, Resolve 5, Manipulation 5, etcetera.

[Olsson]

Academics: <Insert A Few Spesific Eras/Location> History
Crafts: Sewing
Crafts: Metalwork
Occult: Pop Occult Facts
Intimidation: Resting Bitch Face
Weaponry: Swords
Survival: Orientation
Survival: Campsites

I don't know, is what I could think of.

[lordbelh]

@Admiral I don't. I know I' m not a genius, that I don't have endless resolve, that I'm pretty horrible at manipulation and lying (which is why I try to avoid it). I'm fairy sure I don't have a single 5 anywhere on my imaginary nWod sheet. Shit. I would be lying if I said I had any 4s. A few 3s with lots of 2s and 1s. Though I would probably have more skill points in total than a starting nwod character. But that's OK, I've got life experience to justify it with.

[2mspris]

I'm sort of with @lordbelh there. I'm pretty sure that my attributes if statted would all fall in the "2" range, maybe I could pull off a 3 or 4 in Wits because I'm a smart ass with more than my fair share of common sense. But I've had a very broad range of experiences/skills that would likely make creating stats by a Character Gen system pretty hard to pull off with accuracy.

[Cobalt]

@Olsson said:

Intimidation: Resting Bitch Face

You are my favorite.

@Admiral said:

But I think most of us think of ourselves as Intelligence 5, Wits 5, Resolve 5, Manipulation 5, etcetera.

Nah. I wouldn't think that. I'm not sure what I'd put my attributes at but not that high. Definitely not in the physicals.

[surreality]

Definitely on the spec list:

Academics.Art History (no school ever took transfer credits in this... )
Academics.Costume History
Computer.Mac
Computer.Photoshop
Crafts.Embroidery
Crafts.Sewing
Crafts.Patternmaking
Crafts.Corsetmaking
Crafts.Costuming
Crafts.Fashion Design
Crafts.Knitting
Crafts.Dye
Crafts.Illustration
Crafts.Watercolor
Crafts.Pen&Ink
Crafts.Drawing
Crafts.Beadwork
Crafts.Weaving
Crafts.Spinning
Crafts.Italian Granny Cooking
Crafts.Home Repair
Occult.Mythology
Occult.New Age Bullshit
Occult.I Have Apparently Seen Every Paranormal Show Ever Why Does This Take Up Space in My Head?
Drive.Nuns to Swear
Drive.Road Trip
Survival.Internet
Animal Ken.Cat Herding
Empathy.I Call Bullshit
Empathy.Patterns of Behavior
Expression.Writing
Expression.Voice Acting
Expression.Acting
Expression.Improv
Intimidation.Bitchslap of Reality

...that'd be about right.

[Olsson]

Just to go on a sidetrack, I always have difficulty seperating the Occult and Academics skill in World of Darkness, beyond 'real' supernatural information.

Especially with stuff like religion and mythology, like is knowing about Lilith Occult or Academics? Or knowing Medusa was a serpen associated female creature that turned people into stone by looking at them.

[Sundown]

@Olsson Yeah, it is confusing. Personally I'd say high Occult RL people would be: a priest who has done exorcisms, a practitioner of reiki or some other sort of healing, a practitioner of satanism who does the actual rituals, a yogi who lives as a tantrika and eats meat from the burial pires, a practitioner of astral projection or even lucid dreaming, a wiccan who does rituals. So everyone who has hands-on experience, whether you buy into that stuff or not. If you've tried doing it and worked on it for years, then you get occult points in them. Not just for knowing a lot about it, even though that factors in, too. In WoD it seems that knowledge is more of a factor for the stat, or perhaps exposure to the supernatural.

I also agree that my attributes wouldn't be that high. My life experiences and skills would be all over the place though, and they'd be very eyeroll-worthy in a MU character.

Edit: Uhh, I slightly misaddressed the point here. I think I'd put it like this: if you've seen the Medusa, then it's Occult knowledge. If you've read about it from reputable sources, it's Academics?

[silentsophia]

@ThatOneDude Yeah, I'd have so many flaws I'd end up with eye lasers out the gate.

[Luna]

Mine isn't that great, mostly because the flaws cancel some most of my stuff out.

Flaw.Forgetful
Flaw.Squirrel!!
Flaw.So clumsy I fall UP stairs
Flaw.You totally fucked me over three times already but sure, I'll give you a second chance
Flaw.Addiction (Sephora)
Flaw.Addiction (Michael Kors)
Flaw.White. No, really really white. Totes that white girl. So painfully white. White girl wave at people in the ghetto while listening to loud hip hop and say HIIIIII! level of white. I'm so sorry.
Flaw.Allergies (To all the things I love )
Flaw.Sarcastic
Flaw.Actually enjoy Whole Foods
Flaw.I can't even

Science.Biology
Science.Esthetician
Academics.Accounting (Management)
Firearms.Yes I'm a girl and I can shoot this .50 pistol so fuck off
Athletics.Horseback riding
Athletics.Stronger than I look
Expression.Belly dance (Completely negated by Flaw.Never in front of anyone)
Socialize.High end sales people
Socialize.Not totally a basic bitch