Val CHA Cost Roll Notes 10 STR 0 11- Lift 100 kg; 2d6 HTH Damage [2] 13 DEX 9 12- OCV: 4/DCV: 4 10 CON 0 11- 10 BODY 0 11- 18 INT 8 13- PER Roll 13- 18 EGO 16 13- ECV: 6 20 PRE 10 13- PRE Attack: 4d6 16 COM 3 12- 3 PD 1 Total: 3 PD (0 rPD) 3 ED 1 Total: 3 ED (0 rED) 3 SPD 7 Phases: 4, 8, 12 4 REC 0 20 END 0 20 STUN 0 Total Characteristic Cost: 55 Movement: Running: 6"/12" Leaping: 2"/4" Swimming: 2"/4" Cost Powers & Skills 10 "None The Worse For Wear": Luck 2d6 Perks 1 "Took A Law Degree": Fringe Benefit: License to practice law 1 "I Stole Her Passport": Fringe Benefit: Passport 10 "Attached Their Wages And Took A Whopping Cut": Money: Wealthy Skills 3 Acting 13- 3 "Tuck The Bills Inside My Cummerbund": Concealment 13- 3 Conversation 13- 3 "I Stole Her Passport And Her Wig": Disguise 13- 2 "To Play Chemin De Fer": Gambling (Card Games) 13- 1 "I Started As an Altar Boy": KS: Catholic Doctrine 8- 3 "I Went To Law School": KS: Criminal Law 13- 0 Language: English (idiomatic; literate) 3 "Counseled All My Clients To Plead Insanity": Persuasion 13- 3 "I Attached Their Wages And Took A Whopping Cut": SS: Accounting 13- 3 "Housewives By The Score": Seduction 13- 3 "Put My Last Few Francs Down On A Prostitute": Streetwise 13- 2 TF: Common Motorized Ground Vehicles 3 "And Auctioned Off Every Last Naugahyde Divan": Trading 13- 3 Jack of All Trades 1 1) "Opened Up An Agency Somewhere Down The Line": PS: Business Management 11- 1 2) "Laying Tackless Stripping": PS: Carpet Layer 11- 1 3) "Worked In Hair Replacement": PS: Hair Replacement 11- 2 4) "I Went To Law School": PS: Lawyer 13- 3 Traveler 1 1) "I Was Down In Adelaide": AK: Australia 11- 1 2) "On To Monte Carlo": AK: Monte Carlo 11- 1 3) "Landed In Sri Lanka": AK: Sri Lanka 11- 1 4) "I Was Down In Adelaide": CK: Adelaide, Australia 11- 1 5) "Took It To Spokane": CK: Spokane, Washington 11- 73 Total Powers & Skills Cost 128 Total Character Cost 75+ Disadvantages 20 Psychological Limitation: "I'm Very Well Aquainted With The Seven Deadly Sins" (Very Common, Strong) 5 Psychological Limitation: "I Like To Have A Good Time, And I Don't Care Who Gets Hurt" (Common, Total) 28 Experience 128 Total Disadvantage Points
Description: He's proud to be a glutton, doesn't have time for sloth, is greedy, angry, and totally amoral. He's Mr. Bad Example, the one of the most devious, low-down, self-centered grifters the world has ever seen. He's stolen from the rich and poor alike and ruined lives the world over. Much to his victim's anger and chagrin, he's never really paid for his crimes and usually lands on his feet—even if a deal goes bad. He's totally unrepentant, fully expects to live to be 100 years-old, and will almost certainly be remembered in infamy.
Found in the song Mr. Bad Example, by Warren Zevon and Jorge Calderon, Mr. Bad Example is never physically described (unlike the "heroes" of some other songs), but we can get an idea of what he's like based on his list of crimes. I used the Grifter package from Dark Champions to build him and then layered in multiple Skills and Perks based on things mentioned in the lyrics. He's perfect for Dark Champions games (he does live in the modern era after all), although you could adapt him for Pulp Hero settings with little effort. Naturally, this character sheet can be further developed by a GM. You might want to add Languages, some Skill Levels (with Interaction Skills), Contacts, and so on.
Mr. Bad Example's Hero Designer File
(Mr. Bad Example created by Warren Zevon & Jorge Calderon, character sheet created by Michael Surbrook)
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