Val CHA Cost Roll Notes 13 STR 3 12- Lift 151.6 kg; 2 1/2d6 HTH Damage [3] 18 DEX 24 13- OCV: 6/DCV: 6 13 CON 6 12- 10 BODY 0 11- 10 INT 0 11- PER Roll 11- 10 EGO 0 11- ECV: 3 15 PRE 5 12- PRE Attack: 3d6 16 COM 3 12- 4 PD 1 Total: 4 PD (0 rPD) 4 ED 1 Total: 4 ED (0 rED) 3 SPD 2 Phases: 4, 8, 12 6 REC 0 26 END 0 24 STUN 0 Total Characteristic Cost: 45 Movement: Running: 6"/12" Leaping: 2"/4" Swimming: 2"/4" Cost Powers & Skills Perks 4 "Best Driver In The Land": Reputation: Best Driver In The Land (Stock Car Circuit) 14-, +2/+2d6 0 '57 Chevrolet: Vehicle Skills 2 "Runnin' Shine Outta Alabam'": AK 11- 2 "Runnin' From The Man In Oklahoma City": CK: Oklahoma City 11- 5 "Dirt Track Demon": Combat Driving 14- 3 Concealment 11- 2 KS: Stock Car Circuit 11- 0 Language: English (idiomatic; literate) 7 Mechanics 13- 2 PS: Stock Car Racer 11- 3 "He's Got Honeys All Along The Way": Seduction 12- 2 TF: Common Motorized Ground Vehicles 32 Total Powers & Skills Cost 77 Total Character Cost 50+ Disadvantages 5 Distinctive Features: Tattoos ("Baby," "Hey") (Easily Concealed; Noticed and Recognizable; Detectable By Commonly-Used Senses) 10 DNPC: Dixie Dawn 8- (Normal) 20 Psychological Limitation: "Don't Know What Fear's About" (Common, Total) 85 Total Disadvantage Points
Description: Rapid Roy is a racer on the stock car circuit, running the dirt track on Sunday afternoons in his souped-up '57 Chevy. He's also driven the figure eight tracks and the demolition derby, and if rumors are to be believed, run moonshine out of Alabama and through Oklahoma City. He's quick with a smile, especially if a camera is near, and usually has a toothpick in his teeth, and extra pack of cigarettes rolled up in his sleeve, and a tattoo on one arm that says "Baby" and another that says "Hey."
Found in Jim Croce's song Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy), Rapid Roy is far more Pulp Hero than Dark Champions, even if he drives a '57 Chevy and is probably active in the early 1960s. Runnin' 'shine is a perfect 1930's plot hook for involvement in all sorts of adventures, and Roy's girlfriend Dixie Dawn is just asking to be kidnapped in order to force Roy to drive an important cargo somewhere. Game Masters may want to improve Roy's driving skills by upping his Combat Driving, giving him the Pulp Hero Superskill Working The Pedals, and adding a few more skills (like WF: Handguns or some racing Contacts).
Rapid Roy's Hero Designer File
(Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy) created by Jim Croce, character sheet created by Michael Surbrook)
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