Madness Dossier: Characters

Roger Burton West

Traits

Characters start with 375 points; use one of the playtest templates, but these can be generously modified. Many traits are inappropriate.

Strongly recommended

• Cultural Familiarity (Muslim)
• Language: Arabic

Prohibited (where not in template)

• Addiction
• Alcoholism
• Allies
• Amnesia
• Bad Back
• Bad Grip
• Berserk
• Blindness
• Cannot Learn
• Cannot Speak or Mute
• Chronic Depression
• Chronic Pain
• Claim to Hospitality
• Clerical Investment
• Colorblindness
• Confused
• Contacts or Contact Group
• Cowardice
• Deafness
• Debt
• Dependents
• Distinctive Features or Unnatural Features
• Duty
• Dwarfism or Gigantism
• Dyslexia
• Enemies
• Epilepsy
• Fanaticism
• Favor
• Flashbacks
• Greed
• Hemophilia
• Hunchback
• Indecisive
• Independent Income
• Innumerate
• Kleptomania
• Lame
• Legal Enforcement Powers
• Legal Immunity
• Lunacy
• Maintenance
• Manic-Depressive
• Megalomania
• Missing Digit
• Mistaken Identity
• Mundane Background
• Neurological Disorder
• Night Blindness
• No Depth Perception
• Non-Iconographic
• Numb
• One Arm
• One Eye
• One Hand
• Pacifism (Total)
• Paranoia
• Patrons
• Phantom Voices
• Quadriplegic
• Rank
• Reputation
• Restricted Diet
• Restricted Vision
• Sadism
• Secret or Secret Identity
• Security Clearance
• Sense of Duty
• Short Attention Span
• Slave Mentality
• Social Disease
• Social Regard
• Social Stigma (Criminal Record)
• Space Sickness
• Split Personality
• Status
• Susceptible
• Tenure
• Terminally Ill
• Timesickness
• Very Fat
• Very Unfit
• Wealth (high or low)
• Wounded

Compulsive Behavior, Delusions, Obsession, and Phobias are tolerated if no worse than -5 points.

Bad Sight and Hard of Hearing are tolerated, as long as they're correctable.

Any Cinematic, Exotic or Supernatural traits are forbidden unless provided by templates.

Equipment

Anything from HIGH-TECH is fair game.

Background

British characters have cover identities in something approximating civilian life. Sometimes it's a pretty obscure corner of civilian life. Think of something where your Project skills are potentially useful...