<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=114752.msg5090833#msg5090833">Quote from: Jin on 20-08-2011, 07:07:07</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Because I did not get a chance to reply before work and Krysia has now responded as well. I did speak to Krysia before hand. We collectively said that Jean would not have given the uniform.  Also I am the Asst ST. Why would I "Reconsider my position." If an ST says no it usually means no, in my experience.<br/><br/>That being said I will edit my post so that Mateus can get Ko's reactions. <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I'm aware your the assistant ST. That's why when you veto a very important thing to me I don't argue. I just ask if I can change your mind. Allow me to explain my position.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"> This one might of been a misunderstanding on my part. I thought you got it that they 'wouldn't' give you the uniform because they 'know' his gender. I said go to Jean cause she'd look at him funny and decline his request based on knowing he has dangly bits in his pants. He'd have to steal one of the girl's uniforms if he wanted his own they aren't just going to hand it to him. Which honestly wouldn't be that hard. </blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I'll address you both on this here.<br/><br/>This game sounded exciting from the moment I read about it because I've had a a specific character in my head for a very long time and this game in every way is perfect for him. The character is practically dual gendered, he has the mind of a 6000+ year old female vampire, the genitals of a man, and a body that's attractive but unidentifiable as being either sex at all. The rulebook even has a super power that makes it impossible for anyone to tell his gender while also making him exceptionally beautiful. Fucking perfect!<br/><br/>The costumes in the marvel world have tended to be for combat and custom tailored to each person wearing them. Krysia wants school uniforms though, this is very detrimental to my character who is heavily appearance based, but she is ST so while my character will hate it I can still make it work OOCly. Mateus has the mind of a woman and is used to wearing corsets and high heels. Oocly i'm an inter-sexed woman playing a seductive ambiguously gendered character. We are desperate for him to  be sanctioned the female uniforms.<br/><br/>I felt the easiest way to handle this was for the academy to issue him male uniforms but allow him to change them for the female ones without to much trouble. Considering the school is for super powered outcasts I figured the the staff wouldn't be too bothered by a gender identity issue. I thought they would consider him 'some type of transexual' and give him the female uniform.<br/><br/>Of course there are other ways for him to get the female uniforms as well.  If you Krysia feel stealing them is the best option I could do that but that brings up a lot of problems in my mind<br/><br/>1) It requires him to concoct a plan and execute it during the opening posts of the game. This in turn requires a lot of St narration and game mechanics as he does this. This slows the game down and focuses on me when we are just trying to start the game.<br/><br/>2) It's unofficial. The staff can at any time  tell Mateus "That isn't your uniform. Go change!" Also in a similar note he could be unsuccessful.<br/><br/>3) It makes it seem like the X-Men have never dealt with an ambiguously gendered student before, and haven't even considered the possibility of it. Their doctrine of acceptance suddenly rings very hollow when they are forcing a female minded individual to wear a male uniform.<br/><br/>If you have other ideas how to deal with this I'm certainly willing to listen and work with you. I really believe that part of our problem here is that I haven't highlighted the gender dynamic or it's importance. I can see how my concept description of "Male Black Queen" can evoke the idea that he is defined by having the<em>powers</em>of the Black Queen rather then the<em>mind</em>of the Black Queen. I await your ideas for resolution. If you wanted to simplify it even more we could say he already exchanged his uniforms days ago and exclude that  part entirely.<br/><br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">In the system when you're trying to do what you want it's a charisma roll. In fact in trying to get someone to feel intimidated by your looks would still be a charisma + intimidation roll. Appearance in the white wolf system is mainly used for seduction rolls which there is an entire rule set for this in the vampire book seeing as vampires 9 times out of 10 use seduction to feed. Yes you are prettier/handsome then most in the game but look at the teacher's stats. Some of them are higher then your own. :) They're not going to care if you try and use your looks for a social pecking order. As for the students, well it would still be a roll vs. theirs. Which I'm still coming up with.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I think the only reason this was even a problem is because I haven't accurately communicated what I'm trying to do or what Mateus is capable of. Of course intimidation is usually charisma. However I'm referring to a specif power Mateus has. Let me quote it... [ ¥ Terrible Beauty- the mutant's Appearance is so inspiring and imposing that she may substitute it for Charisma in any situation that involves human interaction.]<br/><br/>I was really just wanting a quick roll resolution so I could narrate how successful at making the random nameless students he passed lust after him and feel insecure about themselves. I could just assume an average spread of results: Most of the boys found him rather lust inspiring, while a few were practically drooling and a few unimpressed. - Most girls were made to feel self conscious with a few practically breaking into tears and a few others not phased and wondered why the goth chick seemed like such a bitch. ~If that's easier for you. Or we could roll against a baseline difficulty (6 or 7 maybe?). He isn't trying to hold a beauty contest against Gambit. He is trying to make an average assortment of high school kids feel bad about themselves.<br/><br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"> <br/>I had a full time job when I was in high school and had way more then resources 3 from it. :) </blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><br/>It's really impressive that you owned your own home and made around 40,000 dollars a year while in high school. I'm sure you'll agree though that that is well above the average for high schoolers. I'm as bit lost on the relevance though... I must have been a bit vague at this point in my post though so let me ask directly.<br/><br/>My post stated that Mateus is used to luxury but is now broke. He still has more money then most high schoolers do but aside from a few expensive outfits he has nearly nothing to his name. I thought this was in line with his resource score. Now that I have pointed out my reasoning, If you feel it flawed I  will gladly go back and free up some points on my character sheet to increase his resources so he can be more accurately affluent.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Actually there is a specialty for touching, it's called grapple. You might wanna put that as your specialty if you're always going to try and touch them. Grapple allows you rerolls on your touch/grapple attempts. As for the other specialties. I'd ask to keep the ones in the book for lack of a head ache. Just remember all they give is a reroll on a 10 in certain situations. Like Lightening Reflexes for Dex allows you a reroll in combat. I'd say Grapple would allow a combat reroll as well as long as you are going to grapple someone. The specialties are very specific when it comes to what they give rerolls on. The ST's tend to have final saying on if you get them or not. Just like anything else.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Ah I did not even think about how grapple would apply to touches. Thank you for pointing that out. I'm familiar with how specialties work. You did notice that by time I posted yesterday that (aside from touch and psychic blade) I already had changed all my specialties to the ones in a book, right? I'm pointing this out because I feel as if I'm being admonished for not complying when I did so immediately. I will now go and change these other two as well.