Re: Re: [DL] Split personalities (was Super Agent)

["James Camilleri" <j.camilleri@virgin.net>]

Bit of a side track I know, but I'm just creating a character with multiple
personalities.  The way I'm running it is not to ask for different bp's but
to roll up the character with various sets of skills at a lower level than a
specialist - sort of a jack of all trades, master of none. The split
personality will come out through rollplaying. With certain personas he
does't realise he knows certain skills, because they don't fit in with that
persona. Ask the inventor to shoot someone and he'll run and hide, ask the
shootist to fix something and he'll stare at you blankly. But he still knows
it all and *may* even get sudden 'leaps of intuition' if it's critical but
not life threatning. But if there is real trouble the best personality for
the job will fight for dominance.

Don't know if it's good as a general rule for split personalities, but it
works well for the concept I've got in mind.

Cheers,
James.

----- Original Message -----
From: <jartdl@netscape.net>
To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 9:24 PM
Subject: RE: Re: [DL] Super Agent


> Wraith530@comcast.net wrote:
>
> >here's a question i just thought up..would a character with multiple
> >personalities be able to have a different AB for each personality?
>
> It depends on how you view the idea of multiple personalities.
Personally, I think of them as different aspects of the same core persona -
one mind that has fractured into multiple images.  So I would say no.  I
would only allow a small difference between the two personalities.
>
> If you think that a multiple personality is two different souls sharing
the same body, then having different AB's would be fine.  I'd handle it like
dominion, so if the poor MPD guy got Harrowed - ooh, what fun!
>
>
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