Val CHA Cost Roll Notes 18 STR 8 13- Lift 303.1 kg; 3 1/2d6 HTH Damage [4] 8 DEX -6 11- OCV: 3/DCV: 3 15 CON 10 12- 13 BODY 6 12- 20 INT 10 13- PER Roll 13- 15 EGO 10 12- ECV: 5 15 PRE 5 12- PRE Attack: 3d6 8 COM -1 11- 8/12 PD 4 Total: 8/12 PD (0/4 rPD) 6/10 ED 3 Total: 6/10 ED (0/4 rED) 2 SPD 2 Phases: 6, 12 7 REC 0 30 END 0 30 STUN 0 Total Characteristic Cost: 51 Movement: Running: 6"/12" Leaping: 3"/6" Swimming: 2"/4"" Cost Powers & Skills 12 Thick Skin: Armor (4 PD/4 ED) 2 Heavy: Knockback Resistance -1" 2 Immune To The Cold: LS (Safe in Intense Cold) Perks 15 Money: Filthy Rich Skills 3 CK: Jokertown 13- 5 Computer Programming 14- 4 KS: Bad Jokes (especially joker jokes) 14- 5 Persuasion 13- 2 PS: Newspaper Vendor 11- 3 Streetwise 12- 3 Trading 12- 1 WF: Laser Pistols 3 Linguist 4 1) Language: English (idiomatic; literate) 3 2) Language: French (completely fluent; literate) 0 3) Language: Glabberan (idiomatic; literate) 3 4) Language: Mandarin (completely fluent; literate) 3 5) Language: Network Trade Talk (idiomatic) 3 6) Language: Rhindarian (idiomatic) 4 7) Language: Spanish (idiomatic; literate) 4 8) Language: Yiddish (idiomatic; literate) 3 Scientist 3 1) SS: Anthropology 14- 3 2) SS: Computer Operations 14- 3 3) SS: Linguistics 14- 3 4) SS: Xenology 14- Total Powers & Skill Cost: 99 Total Cost: 150 50+ Disadvantages 10 Distinctive Features: Smells Like Buttered Popcorn (Concealable; Noticed and Recognizable; Detectable By Commonly-Used Senses) 5 Physical Limitation: Heavy (5', 300 lbs) (Infrequently, Slightly Impairing) 10 Physical Limitation: Alien Metabolish, Requires Specialized Medial Attention (Infrequently, Greatly Impairing) 10 Psychological Limitation: Likes It Cold, Dresses In Loud Hawaiian Shirts Even In The Coldest Weather (Common, Moderate) 10 Psychological Limitation: Likes People (i.e. Humans) (Common, Moderate) 15 Social Limitation: Secret ID (He's a Glabberan [An Alien]) (Frequently, Major) 15 Social Limitation: "Joker" (Very Frequently, Minor) 25 Hidden Alien Bonus 150 Total Disadvantage Points
Description: Jube is 5' tall and weighs 300 lbs. He has blue-black skin, tufts of bristly red hair, and two small tusks. He seems immune to cold, is always dressed in loud Hawaiian shirts (even in snowstorms) and smells like buttered popcorn. He's been in Jokertown as long as anyone can remember (well, since 1952 anyway). In reality, Jube is an alien, a xenologist come to Earth from the plant Glabber to study the effects of the wild card virus on humanity. Other than that, he a nice enough guy, who sells his newspapers from his stand and is more than willing to trade information with anyone. He is also the source of some of the worst jokes anyone has ever heard, and he seems to have an infinite number of them.
Jube has access to both a large amount of wealth and some interesting pieces of high technology, including an FTL "radio" and a laser pistol.
Campaign Use and Designer’s Notes: Aside from making him a really weird mutant, I’d say the best use for Jube is to make him a Star Hero alien species. Since he’s probably an average physical specimen, you can build a Glabberan package fairly easily and drop him into most any setting (specifically space operatic settings such as Terran Empire).
Jube the Walrus's Hero Designer File
(Jube the Walrus created by George R R Martin, character sheet created by Michael Surbrook)
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