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Originally Posted by wothbora
I just bought Innocents : World of Darkness. It is designed for Adults to play Children in a Horror Setting sort of like "Little Fears" (which I've never seen). Imagine playing a 7 - 12 year old in a horror setting (not something you'd do with your kid, but with adults it looked intriguing enough to purchase). Anyway, the source book is excellent for setting the stage; however, I find the Storytelling RPG System absolutely horrific.
Dice Pools, pages and pages of rule sets and combinations of statistics + skills + props + equipment, and just a general distaste of trying to run a game with their rules. Nice setting, but the ruleset just doesn't seem to flow like BRP.
My Question is this:
Has anyone come up with what the standard Stats would be for children? Things like Strength, Size, Intelligence and skill bases for things like Brawling, Education, etc? I'd really like to run this setting, but would like to use BRP/Call of Cthulhu as my RPG Engine of Choice.
Any pointers would be helpful and very much appreciated.
Thanks!
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Hmmmm ... I had toyed at one time with a fantasy campaign with the characters as children. I referred to it as "The Children's Crusade."
As I thought about it, the main thing that would change would be SIZ (obviously). Possibly CON, but not necessarily (kids can be quite hardy and the much lower SIZ would impact hit points, etc anyway). INT and POW would be normal as would DEX. STR would be roughly the same as SIZ. If you figure (as I do - and I'm not looking at any SIZ table which I never believed in anyway) that 11-12 is a normal-SIZ adult, then a kid is going to be around SIZ/STR 6-8. That's a guess. CHA (I don't believe in APP) could be normal or even a little bit higher).
Knowledge skills would be lower barring some special education or training or experience. In my copy of the COC rules (which are old - I don't believe in constantly buying the latest edition) a year of education = a point of EDU, so a pre-high school kid's EDU would be in the 1-8 range. Skills depending on DEX could be pretty much as for an adult character, and certain communication skills could be pretty high - or you could add new ones - instead of Fast Talk and Orate you could have Whine and Cajole, or something. Seriously!
Just off the top of my head.