Pleonexiac - Wanting, Getting, Wanting
Feb 6, 2023 20:52:43 GMT -6
Post by Amanojyaku on Feb 6, 2023 20:52:43 GMT -6
Instinct is governed by want. Food, water, procreation, all the most basic desires of any life-form, all of them pursued with various levels of fervor no matter where on the Wheel you are. But what happens when you take away something more intrinsic? When an otherwise complete being is made less so?
Ancient Human philosophers called this condition pleonexia, a singular avidity that somehow makes a lesser being more. No longer satisfied with fulfilling basic needs, the nascent Pleonexiac conquers, taking anything and everything that it can in an attempt to fill the void. Gold, clothes, toys... they want it, they'll have it, but it won't ever be enough. And now they have the Wheel...
Tell: The Pleonexiac's tell is mostly auditory, the sound of jingling coins. It starts with a slight rattle, like that of a mostly full pocket, and gets louder as the Pleonexiac spends Medals... purses, sacks, an endless hail of coins.
Powers
Avarice: You may spend Medals to gain +1k0 on a Wealth test for each Medal spent. You may have more than five dots in Artifacts at character creation.
Embarrassment of Riches: Your power stat (Desire) is capped at your Wealth as well as your Level. If you lose dots in Wealth sufficient to bring the cap on your power stat down below the level you have actually purchased it at, you lose access to the powers granted by higher ranks in the power stat until you have increased your Wealth sufficiently. You can purchase dots of Wealth after character creation, as if Wealth was a characteristic in your class progression.
Midas' Lifeblood: If you would suffer Wealth Strain, you also roll on the Shock table using the same modifier. If you would suffer Blood Loss, you also suffer Wealth Strain. You suffer from Wealth Strain regardless of any feats or powers you may have that would prevent you from suffering Wealth Strain.
Obsession: Exalted greed is all-consuming. Begin play with the Chem Geld, Strong Minded, and Mental Fortress feats.
Power Stat: Desire: They say that desire is the reason life first crawled out of the sea, the reason that anything lives at all. To a Pleonexiac that's nothing; theirs an endless wanting, getting, wanting that never stops at one thing, always one thing. They're always wanting, wanting more. That desire is their power, a hunger that only grows deeper as they draw from it. Too much will never be enough.
Resource Stat: Medals: Medals are spiritual manifestations of a Pleonexiac's desire, coins spawned from the Warp in imitation of their profane cousins. A Pleonexiac can have a number of Medals equal to their Level + Desire + Wealth, and regain Medals equal to their Desire whenever they succeed on a test involving Wealth.
*Gylded Grasp: Forget the idea of subtlety; every item you wear, attach to your body, or hold in your hand has the appearance (unless it would be gaudier otherwise) and properties of gold in addition to any existing materials, for as long as it remains on your person.
**The Golden Rule: You can spend a Medal to use your Wealth in place of any Characteristic when making a social roll. This can cause Wealth Strain, treating any relevant TN or opposed test (if there are multiple options for this number, use the highest) as the acquisition TN.
***Want It Now: Once per session, you can make a Wealth test to conjure any non-artifact item in your hands until the end of the scene. The TN for this test is equal to the acquisition test to acquire it normally, but it appears instantly. This can cause Wealth Strain as normal.
****Golden Greedier: Gain Armor and Aura equal to your Wealth. You can buy up to 6 dots of Wealth.
*****Invisible Hand of God: You can make an acquisition test to acquire artifacts, with a TN equal to twice what a non-artifact version of the item would be, or (10 + (5*artifact rating))*2, whichever is higher.
Pleonexiac Greed Assets
Asshu
The power is yours, it is your right to claim all that lies within your sight. Your Embarrassment of Riches power allows you to buy ranks in Holdings, but you cannot use this background to acquire vehicles. Additionally, you can take the feat Courtier's Privilege at any time as if it appeared in your class progression.
Gamel
Everybody has their own Medals; theirs just aren't as valuable as yours. You gain a number of Mini Medals equal to three times your Desire. You can use these to modify any Wealth-based roll directly; spending one Mini Medal improves the final total of the roll by 1. You may spend any number of Mini Medals per round, using all of them in a single roll if you wish. Whenever you successfully Disarm or kill an enemy, or successfully steal an object with a Larceny test, you recover a Mini Medal. If you would have more than three times your Desire in Mini Medals, the extra ones are lost.
Giru
It's not that you don't want anything... no, you want nothing. There's a difference. Gain one rank of the Nihilikinesis magic school. You can purchase ranks in this school as if it appeared in your class progression. Your attacks deal +1k1 damage to allied targets and to targets that you have heard someone express a desire for during the scene.
Kazari
You might be a pretty little kitty now, but underneath all your bling is a drab old crab who can't quite snuff it without that sparkly self-worth. As long as your Wealth exceeds your Desire, you gain a static bonus equal to your Wealth to all opposed tests and social attack rolls, and your Gylded Grasp power affects vehicles while you are driving them. While your Desire exceeds your Wealth, you instead take a penalty on these tests equal to your Desire, and your Gylded Grasp power does not function.
Mezool
Nothing's felt the same since you exalted; it all feels muted somehow. You are unaffected by Fatigue until it exceeds your Desire, and gain a free raise to resist spells and effects that rely on emotion, pain, or overexposure to function (e.g. being dazzled by a flash of light or Desert Wind technique, being stunned by the Shocking special quality, etc.). You cannot take Frenzy (or any similar feats) and treat it as optional when it appears in your class progression, and cannot enter a Frenzy by any means.
Uva
What's theirs is yours, and what's yours is yours... and yours is yours, and yours... yours. Not theirs! Gain one rank of the Golden Riverside sword school. You can purchase ranks in this sword school as if it appeared in your class progression. You also gain +1k0 on Disarm attempts and on Larceny tests made to take things from other people.
