Big Daddy Template

NWoD Character creation follows a simple series of steps, the sixth one being putting a template on the character. What actually happens depends on the cTemplate. A Vampire Template adds Blood Potency and all the advantages of vampirism. So a Big Daddy Template lists the main changes to the character in becoming a Big Daddy.

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Template:

Big Daddy Class: Big Daddies are given a specific layout upon creation, along with a specific type of plasmid mix that transforms them into that type of big daddy. Classes of Big Daddy are available later in the book and define your weaponry, bonus specialty, and method of gaining Salvage points.

• Rosie

• Bouncer

• Rumbler

Salvage Points: Wandering through the halls, Daddies will collect material they find may aide in repairing or upgrading their weaponry. When coming across metal items like Guns or scrap left from destroyed bots a Big Daddy may collect it and immediately turn it into usable Salvage Points that can be spent at a U-Invent machine and fashioned into whatever they need that is metal such as new weaponry or bullets. Big Daddies can have up to ten Salvage Points at one time.

Honor: Being so far changed from a normal human, Big Daddies simply do not think of actions as right or wrong, just like Splicers. Big Daddies instead has Honor, which replaces the concept of Humanity or Morality.

Honor system

10 Abandoning a Little Sister

9 Attacking First

8 Killing Non Splicers

7 Attacking a Big Daddy unprovoked

6 Killing a Big Daddy

5 Stealing a Little Sister from another Big Daddy

4 Letting a Little Sister get stolen from

3 Letting a Little Sister get hurt

2 Hurting a Little Sister

1 Letting a Little Sister Die

Pheromones: Mr. Bubbles possesses special chemical pheromones that attract Little Sisters to him. On sight a Little Sister will join the Big Daddy and follow him. Little Sisters currently being escorted by another Big Daddy will ignore the other Big Daddy until a fight breaks out between them and one Big Daddy stands victor or forces the other Big Daddy to break contact with the Little Sister.

Diving Suit: The bulky suit of the Big Daddy is a double edged sword. Dexterity Checks are -1 along with any roll requiring you to run or jump. Your size is increased to 7. Speed is -4. Damage taken from Firearms, Explosives, Blunt, and Piercing attacks is considered Bashing. The suit has a Armor rating of 3. Since they are literally fused into their suit, they can never get out of it.

Voice Box: The inner workings of the body that control speech have been permanently tampered with and changed. It is impossible for Big Daddies to make sounds similar to Speech, restricted to long, drawn out and pained sounding low pitch groans and grumbles.

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This is a rough draft first. Essentially the changes is the character has a Class (one of the Big Daddy types), the Inability to speak, a Diving Suit bestowed upon creation, The use of Salvage Points, and a Honor system that overwrites Morality. As you can see, the Template is pretty bare bones and simple, its just a set of basic rules that are important to lay out in character creation that have to do with the sheet. I will add and take away from this as the project moves on.

Personally I think its unimportant to mention the Voice Box and Pheromones in Char creation since it does not have much to do with the character sheet at all. The key thing is the Class, Salvage, Diving Suit, and Honor. These are things that directly affect the sheet.

There are a few rules I have been kicking around that apply directly to Rapture

• No Covenants or Equivalent for Non Human Splicers. They lack the population and sanity to have a true population going.
  
• Resources are handled differently since nobody in rapture actually makes money anymore. When slaying splicers you will need to actively be looting their pockets and grabbing Resources dots in order to use the Merchant machines around Rapture.
  

We are trying to capture as much of the setting as possible, and give the GM all the tools possible to run it like WoD, yet also run it like Bioshock. Anne is currently cooking me up some ideas for splicers. In a day or two I should be motivated enough to write up a Big Daddy class for you guys to play with