Aug

31

Harry Van Rhee

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Here’s the player character for the solo game I ran for a friend. Cornelia was designed to be both a love interest and the contact he needed to get revenge on the people who have been murdering members of his extended family, and were responsible for the murder of his parents.

Name: Henry “Harry” Van Rhee Player: Dustin
Concept: Avenger Association Twilight Order +1 to all Necromancy Tasks. Limited Magic Art abilities.
Character type: Greater Gifted
Description
Gender: Male Age: 25 Hair: blonde
Race: Human Caucasian Height: 5’10″ Weight: 165lbs. Eyes: blue
Physical Attributes Mental Attributes Secondary Attributes
Strength: 3 Intelligence: 4 Life Points: 36 Endurance Points: 35
Dexterity: 3 Perception: 4 Speed: 10 Essence Pool: 47
Consitution: 2 Willpower: 5 Essence Channeling: 4
Qualities and Drawbacks
Quality or Drawback Level Cost XPs Notes
Gift 1 5
Attractiveness Quality 2 2 0
Charisma Quality 1 1 0
Essence Channeling 4 8 0
Hard to Kill 2 2 0
Increased Essence Pool 4 4 0
Old Soul 1 4 0 Each level represents 3-5 incarnations. You gain 6 essence per level, as well as +1 point for Mental Attributes per level.
Resources Quality 2 4 0
Adversary 5 -5 0
Bad Luck 1 -3 0
Delusions – Phobia (Spiders) 2 -2 0
Delusions – Weird 1 -1 0 Believes he is destined to save the Rothman family and the town of Griffendel.
Honorable 2 -2 0 Always treat others with dignity — even enemies.
Obligation 2 -2 0 Save the family from their ancestor’s foolish mistake.
Skills
Skill Level Cost XPs Notes
Acrobatics 2 4 0 Learned in martial arts class
Acting 2 2 0
Computers 3 3 0
Driving (Car) 1 1 0
Electronics 1 1 0
Engineer (Electrical) 1 1 0
First Aid 1 1 0
Humanities (History) 1 1 0 Many more types are possible.
Language (French) 1 1 0
Language (Spanish) 1 1 0
Lucid Dreaming 2 4 0
Martial Arts (Karate) 6 12 0 Multiple black belt achievements in karate and aikido.
Myth and Legend (New England Myths & Legends) 2 2 0
Notice 2 2 0
Occult Knowledge 1 2 0
Research/Investigation 1 1 0
Running (Marathon) 1 1 0
Sciences (Mathematics) 1 1 0
Smooth Talking 1 1 0
Trance 1 2 0
Combat Moves
Spin Kick 3
Jump Kick 3
Crescent Kick 3
Counterpunch 5
Back Kick 4
*Stabbing Hand 6
*Kick 6
*Punch 6
Visualizations
Dream Shift 2
Dream Attack 2
Conjuration 3
Awaken 1
Metaphysics
Meta Level Cost XPs Notes
Mindheal Strength 4 12 0
Mindheal Art 1 2 0
Mindfire Strength 4 12 0
Mindfire Art 2 4 0
Mindsight Strength 2 6 0
Mindsight Art 3 6 0
Mindtalk Strength 2 6 0
Mindtalk Art 1 2 0
Notes
The following are notes exported from Omni Outline to plain text:

- [ ] I Harry’s Family
– [ ] A Rachel – mother
– [ ] 1 She lives in New York City
– [ ] 2 She is a writer who specializes in fantasy and horror.
– [ ] B John – father. Died in a car accident four years ago.
– [ ] C Older brother by 8 years – Robert “Rob”. He’s married and has
one child whose less than a year old.
– [ ] D Younger sister by two years – Sarah. Sarah is still in school
working on a doctorate in genetics. She has a Spirit Patron
of some sort.
– [ ] E His family is all very familiar with the occult. They brought
their kids believing in the boogeyman.
– [ ] F They all know about his powers.
- [ ] II Harry
– [ ] A Job –
– [ ] 1 Works for the Third Eye Detective Agency. It was founded
by 3 partners.
– [ ] 2 There are three interns. Harry is the only Gifted one and
the only one working on advancing to gain his Detective’s
license
– [ ] 3 The TEDA specializes in supernatural cases.
– [ ] 4 It’s a branch of the Twilight Order.
- [ ] III Founding Families
– [ ] A Gryffen
– [ ] B Rothman (–> related. Changed name to Van Rhee)
– [ ] 1 Rachel Van Rhee (mom) said, “Your father’s ancestors made
a Pact with an evil being of some kind. In exchange for
power, success, wealth and other things, each family must
sacrifice someone of their bloodline. So, men of that
family run around the country, siring children to be used
to pay their price so their own families are left
unscathed. If they can’t get someone with the right
blood, seven other innocent people must die in their
stead.”
– [ ] C Coborne
– [ ] 1 Wayne Coborne — bad temper. Rumored to have murdered the
last of the Rothmans of Griffendel some fifteen years ago.
– [ ] D Abernathie
- [ ] IV Missing Van Rhees
– [ ] A Christopher and Siobhan Van Rhee.
– [ ] B Twin daughters (early twenties?)

Aug

30

Cornelia Abernathie (Eventide Game)

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A while ago, I started to run a game called “Eventide”. When that started to die, I started a solo campaign for a friend. Eventually, that died too (for a various reasons). This character, Cornelia Abernathie, the daughter of one of the bad guy families.

The game was run using WitchCraft. Here are her stats. When I find my notes with her background, I’ll add them to the post.

Name: Cornelia Abernathie Player: Eventide NPC
Concept: Weird One Association Solitaires +1 to all Tasks involving one Art.
Character type: Greater Gifted
Description
Gender: Female Age: 29 Hair: Mahagony (dirty brown because of the color wash)
Race: Human (Fey Touched) Height: 5′ 7″ Weight: 130 Eyes: Blue Gray (dull blue because of colored contacts)
Physical Attributes Mental Attributes Secondary Attributes
Strength: 2 Intelligence: 5 Life Points: 29 Endurance Points: 32
Dexterity: 2 Perception: 4 Speed: 8 Essence Pool: 82
Consitution: 2 Willpower: 5 Essence Channeling: 6
Qualities and Drawbacks
Quality or Drawback Level Cost XPs Notes
Gift 1 5
Artistic Talent (Music) 1 3 0 Types include Painting/Drawing, Sculpture, Singing, etc.
Attractiveness Quality 3 2 0 Attractive 1 from Fey-Touched
Hard to Kill 1 0 0 From Fey-Touched
Resources Quality 3 6 0
Status Quality 1 1 0
Influence 1 3 0 Prerequisites: 2 or more levels of Wealth and Status in any combination.
Increased Essence Pool 10 7 0 3 Levels from Fey-Touched
Essence Channeling 6 15 0
Fey-Touched 3 3 0 Someone who is Fey-Touched either has very weak Fey Blood in them, or had an encounter with one of the Fey that has left a mark upon their soul. Someone who is Fey-Touched gets Hard To Kill 1, Attractive 1, Increased Essence Pool 3, and Secret 2.
Secret 2 0 0 From Fey-Touched
Adversary 4 -4 0
Honorable 1 -1 0
Recurring Nightmares 1 -1 0
Adversary 3 -3 0
Skills
Skill Level Cost XPs Notes
Acting 2 2 0
Beautician 5 5 0
Disguise 5 5 0
Driving (Car) 1 1 0
First Aid 1 1 0
Magic Theory 3 3 0
Myth and Legend (Gryffendell) 4 4 0
Notice 1 1 0
Occult Knowledge 4 8 0
Play Instrument (Cello) 5 5 0 Chose any single instrument.
Questioning 1 1 0
Research/Investigation 2 2 0
Seduction 4 4 0
Sleight of Hand 1 1 0
Smooth Talking 2 2 0
Trance 4 8 0
Writing (Creative) 4 4 0
Metaphysics
Meta Level Cost XPs Notes
Divination Specialization (Tarot) 1 2 0 Specialty must be one of Astrology, Cartomancy, Crystal-Gazing, Haruspication, I Ching, Oneiromancy, Rune-Casting, Tables of Ifa, or similar art.
Divination 6 15 0 The GM may require you to purchase the specific Divination Specialization for this Invocation. Glimpse the Past, Glimpse the Future.
Shielding 4 8 0
Cleansing 2 4 0 Remove Emotional Debris, Remove Curse
Consecration 3 6 0 Create Vessel, Restricted Vessel
Gateway 4 8 0 Activate Existing Gateway, Travel, Close Gateway, Create Gateway
Locate 3 6 0 Search
Soulfire 4 8 0 Soulfire Blast
Warding 5 10 0 Create Ward

Aug

29

The World of Lisacraft

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I’ve decided to add yet something else to my plate of things I’m doing. I’m jumping into the deep end and starting my own podcast called “The World of Lisacraft”. The plan is to make it an approximated 20 minute long podcast about world creation for fiction and role playing games.

Why did I choose this topic? Because it’s something I think I’m good at, and while there’s several podcasts about writing, I haven’t found one yet that deals with this topic. I’ve got a lot of ideas for things to talk about, and I hope they’ll actually be helpful to people.

The website for the World of Lisacraft podcast is http://wol.lisahartjes.com. If you’re interested, head on over and check it out!

Aug

24

The Heroine of the Story

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One of the podcasts I listen to is The Kissy Bits, a great podcast about writing romance (both the genre, and including romance in other genres). Kiki Opdenberg does a very good job of exploring the ins and outs of writing romantic fiction. She’s done 16 episodes as I write this, and I recommend you listen to all of them. It’s not so many that you can’t catch up.

The most recent episode she did, she talks about the heroine of a story, and she provides a link to Tami Cowden’s website, specifically the page about Heroine Archetypes. The page is short, but well done.

Aug

21

Indiana Jones IV to be released 2008

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Check out the story at SciFi Wire. All I can say is cool!

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