Guys, we're going to pick up the pace a little, because I know everyone's eager to get started. From now on we'll do one step a day. If you fall behind, you can just answer whatever questions that you haven't yet answered. If we get an answer from everyone before the day is up, I'll go ahead and post the next one.
Step 3: Nature
Nature takes the form of a series of questions. Your answers to these questions will either increase your Nature or give you an option for a Trait. Nature grants three descriptors. For Marines, these are Carousing, Escaping and Griping. The higher your Nature, the more Marine-like you get: you become the model Marine. Nature is useful because you can use it in place of a skill you don't have.
Normally, when you need to make a test for a skill you don't have, you use Beginner's Luck. You use the associated attribute (Health or Will), plus Help and other benefits, and roll half of those dice. With Nature, you roll all of them. If you test Nature and the test falls within your Nature descriptors (the test involves Carousing, Escaping or Griping), you roll all of your Nature dice. If it doesn't fall within those descriptors, you still roll the full Nature. However, if you fail your Nature is temporarily reduced by the amount you failed by (we call that Tax).
This means a high Nature is great: it provides the ability to be great at Carousing, Escaping and Griping, and a useful escape hatch even outside of that. However, a high Nature also inhibits learning new skills, so there's a downside as well.
Nature Questions:
Please answer each of the following questions:
- When you are off-duty, do you party and live it up because life is short or do you train and prepare for your next mission?
- When your mission gets into some real pretty s***, do you complete the mission no matter the cost or do you bug the f*** out of there?
- Do you let everyone around you know what you think of this chickens*** outfit or do you button up and take it all as it comes?
(You'll notice that I masked the obscenities that show up in the PDF. Cursing is part of a Marine's lifestyle, but board rules do prohibit cursing. I suggest we either use euphemisms (you've all been called 'maggot' more than once) or otherwise mask profanity.)
Characters:
- Marullus: Train and prepare, complete the mission, button up
- MonkeyWrench: Party it up, complete the mission, let them know
- Rusty: Party, bug out, button up
- AntMan9: Party, complete the mission, button up
- StephenTarheel:
- Stirling: