Re: [BNW] Regs as Characters

[Theo McGuckin <tsm@jlab.org>]

> When I have reg heroes, I just make them up like any other character, they 
> just don't have a power package.  I do give them Delta Points because they 
> are so important in the play of the game I can't imagine a PC without them.  
> I usually don't give them any additional Trait or Skill points or anything, 
> but that's my bias.  The way I figure it, in not having powers you won't have 
> delta prime on your tail, so that's pretty valuable so you don't need the 
> extra Trait or Skill points to be "comparable" with the delta PCs.  You will 
> have some "guilt by association" I suppose from hanging around with deltas, 
> but you still are not a delta and the consequences for breaking the law (if 
> that happens) or hanging around with deltas (being with known felons) would 
> be handled in a "mundane" court, and I would much rather take my chances 
> there than to take my chances with the "law" as a renegade delta.  So, I 
> don't give my reg heroes anything extra and they obviously don't get a power 
> package.

I'm running a BNW campaign and I've created a reg hero hero NPC, but I
did it like she was a PC. I basically did the same thing, made her up like
a delta, just no PP and different tricks. I took a cliche, her father is a
gadgeteer, but old, so he built her a power-suit that she uses to go out
and fight crime with. She occupies a weird place in the city, basically
she's taken it upon herself to protect innocents from DP/Defiant battles.
Whenever a battles going on she's usually there, and spends her time
flying people away from the fight and deflecting falling debris and such.
In some ways she's actually more powerful then a delta. If she was a delta
she'd be a gadgeteer (to get the power suit) and would have to spend
points on smarts over speed and strength and tricks on the gadgeteer
tricks. As it is, her father has the brains and G-tricks and she has the
speed (she's not a moron or anything) and general combat tricks. Only
problem is she can never do any repairs in the field if something breaks.

Incidently I gave her a high "Friends in High Places", whatever it's
called (her father) and Belongings (the suit).

 Theo McGuckin -
	"Powerful like a gorilla, yet soft and yielding like a nerf ball"