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The Night Companion!
Today's character comes to you all via the Night Companion rules and a challenge from my friend Greg to rebuild his Ghosts of Albion playtest character using the NIGHT SHIFT rules.
The Game: NIGHT SHIFT, Night Companion Rules
The Night Companion has a number of alternate rules for character creations including a point-buy system and new character types. I figure I will show off the Immortal rules here and how they work with NIGHT SHIFT RAW. I am also using the point-buy rules to "check my math."
The Character: Valerie Beaumont, the Immortal
Lady Valerie Beaumont has "haunted" my games for years. She was a playtest character created for Ghosts of Albion by my friend Greg Littlejohn. We have run games for each other off and on over the last 20+ years. He is a great person to give a test game to and tell him "to break it." There was an alternate combat system that almost went into to Ghosts but did not thanks to him!
Valerie was also later used when we were playtesting the first round of Doctor Who Adventures in Time and Space. Little known fact. A lot of the Ghosts of Albion playtesters were also playtesters for Doctor Who.
Valerie, being immortal also was part of my Spirit of '76 campaign and will be part of Black Star where she will be Captain of the USS Mystic.
76 is the past and the Mystic is the future, but here is Val now, living in 2021 in one of the Night Worlds of NIGHT SHIFT.
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| Valerie Beaumont in 1976 |
Valerie Beaumont
5th Level Survivor/10th Level Sage (Immortal)
Base Abilities
Strength: 12 (0)
Dexterity: 16 (+2)
Constitution: 14 (+1)
Intelligence: 21 (+4) P *
Wisdom: 16 (+2) s
Charisma: 16 (+2) s
HP: 5d4+5 / 10d6+10
AC: 9
Fate Points: 1d10
Check Bonus (P/S/T): +8/+5/+3
Melee bonus: +6 Ranged bonus: +8
Saves: +3 Death Saves and area effects. +5 to saves vs. spells and magical effects. She gains an additional +5 to all saving throws against magic, poison, disease, and death-based attacks due to her immortality.
Immortal Powers
Unique Kill: Virginia Dare (See Below)
Immortals regenerate 1d8 hit points every minute.
+3 to Intelligence
Survivor Skills
Open Locks: 115%
Bypass Traps: 110%
Sleight of Hand: 120%
Move Silently: 120%
Hide in Shadows: 110%
Hair: Red
Eyes: light-green
Height: 5'7"
Spells
1st level: Magic Missle, Glamour, Sleep
2nd level: ESP, Produce Flame, Suggestion
3rd level: Clairvoyance, Haste, Water Breathing
4th level: Arcane Eye, Phantasmal Killer
Immortal Arcana
Innate Magic: Suggestion (x3 per day)
Enhanced Senses
Valerie was born in 1569 and is immortal. She was a young English girl that made her way to the new world in the year 1585. She came to the new world and settled in the Roanoke Colony where she lived for a couple of years. Then something happened. She was caring for the young Virginia Dare and then woke up several days later and several miles from home. When she had managed to return to the colony, everyone was gone. She also discovered that she was immortal and was certain that the two were somehow linked.
Valerie spent the next few years roaming the new world. She learned magic from some of the few true witches in Salem and more from the indigenous Native Americans.
She has a ring on her right little finger that manages a glamour that "ages" her. A gift from a former lover. Currently, she appears to be in her mid-40s. Without the glamour, she appears as she did when she discovered her immortality, a young woman of 18. Her mind though is as someone just over 450.
Shadow Steel Sword
She also carries a long thin blade made of "shadow steel" a rare form of steel that the Fae can use. It can attack any supernatural creature, even ones that are incorporeal or shifted out of phase.
Virginia Dare
When Valerie was brought to the American colonies her primary employment was with the Dare family to act as a caretaker to the newborn Virginia Dare. When Valerie was separated from the colony all the other people living in the Roanoke Colony were gone, including Virginia Dare. For years and even centuries, people claimed to have seen Dare, now grown into young adulthood and called
the White Doe. Many believed the sitings of Dare were nothing more than a myth.
That is, everyone except for Valerie.
At some point around 1622 Valerie encountered Virginia living with the Powhatan in the forests of Virginia. At first, Valerie was elated to find Virginia, but this soon turned when Virginia blamed Valerie for the disappearance of the colony. The two fought and discovered quickly that they could harm, even likely kill, each other. Likely they would have if they had not been interrupted by British forces. Over the next few centuries they would encounter each other and it would lead to fighting.
Both Valerie and Virginia are immortals. The only thing that can kill them is each other.
Looking forward to doing some more with these two.
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I have her start as a Survivor. She was displaced from her colony and spent many years wandering the unknown wilds of the North American continent. Eventually, she picked up knowledge here and there about various occult matters in including some magic.
I like this since it really shows off how flexible the multi-classing system for NIGHT SHIFT can be.
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