[New Book] Scoundrel!

[ThunderChilde]

Generally speaking? Does not play well with others. Tend to be antisocial and self centered. Enjoys chaos and the elaborate games of making it look like someone else was responsible. Callousness.

The kind of folks to come over to your house and kick your cat, spill wine on the carpet and laugh about how hard it's gonna be to get the stain out of you great grandmothers hand made doillies they used to smear it around, ahem "try to clean up".

Not uncommonly known to cause all kinds of trouble on social networking webs. Frequent scriptkiddy boards, trying to gain cred as a "Leet Haxor". Most likely to be the first put up against the wall by the rest of the crew. You get the drift.

 

[fiat_knox]

I think the functional description is "malignant narcissist." If the topic of conversation is not about praising them, or does not somehow involve them at the centre in some positive way, the malignant narcissist will strive continuously to interfere with the conversation, by shouting over people, butting in, interrupting a line of conversation with something irrelevant ("More tea, Vicar?") or, at the last resort, by causing a noisy ruckus somewhere else in the room.

Young and inexperienced malignant narcissists will screw around with online settings to, for example, flood the screen with a rain of frogs or worse objects. The older, but somehow no more mature, type will use subtler methods to steer the topic of conversation back to them.

If they are caught out, the malignant narcissist always executes a scorched earth policy: "If I can't be the centre of your world, I will just have to destroy your world!"

Think of how President Clark in B5 behaved at the end of his reign - he had lost the Earth, so he turned its own defences against the planet, because if he couldn't be God, he'd make sure there wasn't a kingdom for the next guy to rule.

You know, I believe I may really enjoy Scoundrel.

Can't say the same about my players, though ...

 

[Jame]

Umm, that is not what we are doing - Scoundrel does not cover sub-careers, but two full careers (Rogues and Drifters). Furthermore, it replaces nothing from the main rulebook, and characters created with a career book in hand will be no better than those created from rulebook alone.

I would hope that Barbarians are separated from Drifters in this career expansion. They aren't quite Drifters enough, in my opinion.

 

[fiat_knox]

They could, if they'd been outcast from their tribes and forced to wander the world alone, seeking whatever adventure they can find with their trusty steel blade by their side etc etc ...

 

[Original_Carl]

OK, MMO Griefer.
You were a professional jerk in an online role playing game.

Qualification Edu 4+, Survival Int 6+, Advancement End 5+

Personal Development and Service Skills as "Scoundrel".

Specialist: MMO Griefer
1 Deception
2 Computers
3 Streetwise
4 Comms
5 Persuade
6 Admin

Ranks and Benefits
0 PLZ REZ!!!11
1 ............................Computers 1
2 Punk
3 ............................Deception 1
4 Gold Farmer
5 ............................Persuade 1
6 Griefer

:smirk:

 

[ThunderChilde]

Rofl, Plz Rez Meh!!!!!! OMG I have heard that so many times. Let us not forget the griefers near realtive, Leerrrooooy Jeeenkiiins.o: Nearly everyone will fall under the possesion of Leroy Jenkins, even the calmest and most disciplined will occasionally fail in a moment of weakness. I admit that I my self have been a frequent host of Leroy over the years.:rofl:

 

[Stainless]

I'm still getting a "Mongoose Salami Slicing Minimal Publishable Quotient" feeling here. It's a common business model, but not necessarily a good one.

Umm, that is not what we are doing - Scoundrel does not cover sub-careers, but two full careers (Rogues and Drifters). Furthermore, it replaces nothing from the main rulebook, and characters created with a career book in hand will be no better than those created from rulebook alone.

Use what you want, discard the rest - the recipe of good roleplaying!

 

[Whipsnade]

I'm still getting a "Mongoose Salami Slicing Minimal Publishable Quotient" feeling here. It's a common business model, but not necessarily a good one.

Stainless,

Strephon knows I'm not a Mongoose cheerleader and I also believe they've had more misses than hits, but let's at least wait for the book or a sneak peak .pdf to come out before getting too gloomy.

That topic has been only squinted at by every other version of Our Olde Game, Mongoose has shown they have some fresh ideas, and we could all be very happy with the result.


Regards,
Bill

 

[Jame]

They could, if they'd been outcast from their tribes and forced to wander the world alone, seeking whatever adventure they can find with their trusty steel blade by their side etc etc ...

True, but IMO a barbarian who remains within the tribe is not a drifter.

Though, indeed, a barbarian may not even be tribal - he may be an Assyrian, or a Roman, or even an Anglo-Norman circa 1176!