Re: [DL] Idea for a new Edge

["Daniel Gwyn" <dgwyn@colba.net>]

Hey,
    Getting a little bitter are we, Daphné?  Obviously you have got to start
sleeping more! ;-)  Seriously, I think the Grim Servant o' Death hindrance
covers much of what "Death's Bitch" does.  Death's Bitch could simply be
another name.  There is a precedent for giving edges and hindrances new
names in Deadlands, the Ghost Dancers renames Luck of the Irish, Favoured by
the Ancestors.  Still Death's Bitch is quite amusing!
          Daniel Gwyn
"You have a big heart...not as big as your mouth,  but
you have good feelings inside you"
    From the Frisco Kid


>Howdy all!
>
>I had an idea for a new edge (if you can call it that), or perhaps a
>mysterious past might be more appropriate (or for a VoWW) inspired by the
>fact that my character just got herself unharrowed yet again (*sigh* this
is
>getting tedious *g*), and this was the conclusion she came to:
>
>Death's Bitch (5 pts if used as an edge)
>
>You are officially Death's Bitch. The Grim Reaper has decided on a whim
that
>the Great Beyond is too good for you, at least for now, and he wants you as
>his whipping-boy.
>When you are fatally wounded (ie, Maimed somewhere important), you may make
>an Incredible (11) Vigor roll not to die, and all your Maimed wounds turn
to
>Serious: the bad news is that those two levels of wounds you just negated
>have the same effect as if you were a Grim Servant o' Death, and half is
>applied to an innocent bystander or a friend.
>If you fail your Vigor roll, you get to draw two extra cards to come back
>Harrowed, unless you were Maimed in the Noggin, obviously. Being Death's
>Bitch is no picnic, however. You automatically get the Harrowed Hindrance
>Mark o' the Devil at 5 (which does *not* count against your total Hindrance
>points), which means that spiritual people will see your evil carcass
coming
>ten miles away. You also gain the Aura o' Death Hindrance at 1.
>Supposing one of these spiritual people decides to  help you, they gain a
+2
>bonus on all their rolls to do so, but if you go subsequently and get
>yourself killed again (and what are the odds of *that* happening?), you
draw
>another extra card to come back Harrowed -again.
>
>Anyway, this is my first attempt at a new edge (or whatever), so criticism
>is welcome. I'm not sure if it isn't a wee bit too powerful, or might
>attract a little too much munchkinism. I'm going on the assumption that
>since *my* character was completely miserable while Harrowed, other people
>will be too ;-)
>
>Thanks,
>
>Daphné
>--
>"What's your plan?"
>"Plan?  I've got to have a plan?  I can't just be like, proactive
>with pep and stuff?"
>                                        -Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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