| From: | Wratchet-RN@**.arizona.edu |
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| Subject: | MPS |
| Date: | Tue, 21 Nov 1995 14:52:34 -0700 |
>To bring this a bit back to the game (yep takes a lot of effort), but
>does anyone have experience with playing characters suffering from
>MPS ? (multiple personality syndrome; better introduce it here, saves
>you all a lot of typing :)
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Nurse Wratchet does have MPS. She started with a group when Oriental
Adventures came out for AD&D. Evolved through Forgoten Realms, a GURPS
translation of FR, my own game world in GURPS, then SR1, and SR2. By the
time SR came around only 3 of the original characters existed and were now
npc's in my power (hahaha-evil gm laugh). Nurse Wratchet was the
spokeswomen for the team (Medic 1) and a master at imitating members, and as
members died or in some other way left the group she took on a personality
that was theirs. Originally, this was just a ply to keep players interested
in what she had to say (speaking as different people), but by the time Medic
1 was fully integrated into my world of SR2 she not only used these other
voices, but also their skills.
She has around 20 different personalities now, but only six actually have
skills different then hers. I hate to suggest this, for fear of being
Thwapped royally, but the Dark Sun novels Outcast (and whatever else is in
that triology), are a great example of how I played Nurse Wratchet, and of
one option on how to run a character with signifigant MPS.
Basically, it is like running several different characters but with one
body. Some are aware of the others, some communicate with each other, some
have used Karma to develope their own skills. As far as a player doing
this, unless they have very high powered characters with lots of karma to
spend on extra skills, I wouldn't recommend the different skills approach.
(Nurse Wratchet, SilverStreak, and Too Many Degrees-the original 3 from
Oriental-have been around a long time, and are very pwerful npc's. Their
abilities would make munchkins drool:).
There are also some good nonfiction resources out there about MPS, and all
of its various mainifestations. Look in the psychology sections of
bookstores or brwose at your local library.
Hope this was some assistence.
Enjoy.
Brian
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