Tooth and Claw characters again

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In the end my adventuring group will consist of


Author / conspiracy theorist with a "yellow peril" style fear of Yarge (humans)

Disillusioned priest with a gambling problem

Army officer who has been discharged from the service due to a permanent disability but still considers himself a Dragon of Action. Think Bulldog Drummond with wings, but even thicker.

Bored spendthrift young aristocrat with a few useful skills. Think Peter Wimsey's nephew only not as bright.

Borderline alcoholic servant of the above (Role model Jeeves or the butler version of Blackadder, only creepier - basically a slave with a bad attitude)

Elderly widow who has an ...ahem... interesting past.


I'll post the stats after the weekend

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Bored spendthrift young aristocrat with a few useful skills. Think Peter Wimsey's nephew only not as bright.

Does he follow the Code of the Woosters?

In a campaign set in 1925, and deliberately emulating the genre of Planetary, I once brought analogs of Peter Wimsey and Bertie Wooster on stage together; they seemed a natural pair, as a reflection of Wimsey's cover identity as an upper class twit.

Of course, if you watch the Jeeves and Wooster television series, the scary thing is that you realize that Bertie is actually perceptibly smarter than any of his friends.

I reread Busman's Honeymoon lately, and realized that there was a short passage in it that clearly implied that Peter's nephew had gotten targeted for the badger game, though Sayers was a bit cryptic about how she described it.

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I suspect he will be played as a Wooster clone, but I'm deliberately not giving that example to the players, I want to see what they come up with.

There's some excelent Wimsey / Wooster fanfic, which explains Wooster's behaviour as being due to shell shock - he'd completely blotted WW1 out of his mind and can't even begin to think about it, or understand why people are so sombre in November.

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I've looked at a biography of Jeeves (I think it might have been by C. Northcote Parkinson), in which Jeeves gets some advice on choosing a suitable employer from his friend Bunter at the Junior Ganymede. . . .

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Think I read it many years ago, but can't remember much about it. His biography of Horatio Hornblower was Ok, but again not incredibly memorable.