Reaper: The Harvest

By Shawn Arbuckle (sa3x@mailcity.com)

Description

It is said that if enough people believe in a God, then God will exist. Perhaps this is how the Reapers came into existence. The Reapers look like the Grim Reaper: they were black robes, carry scythes and when they are viewed in their natural forms they appear too be skeletons. Reapers are normally found in the land of the dead. When they are encountered in the land of the living, you can only assume they are here for their own reasons.

Character Creation

Reapers start the game with one automatic dot in each Physical, Mental, and Social attribute. A Reaper can spend dots as follows: 7/5/3 for Attributes and 13/9/5 for Abilities, 7 pts to buy Backgrounds, and 10 pts for powers. Each Reaper starts the game with 3 dots in Lost Souls and 5 dots in Claimed souls. The player has 15 freebie points to spend as he chooses. Every Reaper has a Scythe that he may use as a weapon. The Reaper's Scythe does Str +8 damage. Reapers who can be found in the land of the land of the living for any extended period of time are known to carry other weapons as well as the Scythe.

A Reaper may choose the following abilities from the Mage, Vampire and Werewolf guides.

Mage Talents: Alertness, Athletics, Awareness, Dodge, Instruction and Intimidation.

Mage Skills: Firearms, Meditation, Melee and Stealth.

Mage Knowledges: Occult, Lore, Linguistics and Culture.

Vampire Talents: Alertness, Athletics, Dodge, Empathy, and Intimidation.

Vampire Skills: Animal Ken, Firearms, Melee, Music, and Stealth.

Vampire Knowledges: Linguistics, Occult, Medicine and Culture.

Werewolf Talents: Alertness, Athletics, Dodge, Empathy, Expression, and Mimicry.

Werewolf Skills: Animal Ken, Firearms, Melee, Performance, Stealth, Archery, Disguise, Escape Artistry, Hypnotism, and Meditation.

Werewolf Knowledges: Linguistics, Medicine, Occult, Poisons, and Cosmology.

New Skills: Soul Capture

Powers

To use powers a player rolls a number of dice equal to his number of dots in lost souls.

With this power the Reaper may hide his true form. The effect lasts for three scenes plus the Reaper's rank in Masking. Upon reaching rank five, the Reaper can maintain the mask indefinitely.

With this power, a Reaper can summon undead to aid him, they can corporal or un-corporal undead.

*	At this level the Reaper can raise the corpses of small mammals. This includes all types of rodents.
**	At this level the Reaper can raise the corpses of large mammals. This includes humans and other large creatures.
***	At this level the Reaper can summon a spirit. This spirit may decide not to help the Reaper though.
****	At this level the Reaper can summon and command a spirit, either to attack his enemies or to inhabit his enemies' bodies for a time.
*****	At this level the Reaper can call a spirit back to reinhabit a fresh body, one that was recently slain.

The Reaper can raise a number of corpses or summon a number of souls equal to his successes.

*	At this level the Reaper may only knock his victim unconscious.
**	At this level this Reaper may cause two health levels of aggravated unsoakable damage.
***	At this level the Reaper may cause three health levels of aggravated unsoakable damage.
****	At this level the Reaper may cause four health levels of aggravated unsoakable damage.
*****	At this level the Reaper may cause five health levels of aggravated unsoakable damage.

With this power a Reaper can drain a victim's health levels to heal himself. The Reaper rolls his rank in Life Drain and may drain a health level for each success.

With this power the Reap is able to travel though shadows.


*	The Reaper may step into a shadow to hide himself but he is still unable to travel through shadows.
**	The Reaper may step into a large shadow and step out of a shadow of equal size.
***	The Reaper may step into a large shadow and step out of a shadow of equal size, at this rank the Reaper may also take one companion.
****	The Reaper may step into a small Shadow and step out of a shadow of equal or greater size.
*****	The Reaper may step into any shadow, and exit a shadow of any size and he may take three companions.

With this power the Reaper can change his form.

*	The Reaper can change into a spider with a poisonous bite.
**	The Reaper can change into a large rat (Str +2 damage)
***	The Reaper can change into a Crow (Str +3 damage).
****	The Reaper can change into a Vulture (Str +4 damage.
*****	The Reaper can change into a black Panther (claws: Str +5).

Lost Souls and Claimed Souls

The reaper requires lost souls to use his powers. The Claimed souls can be used to lower a difficulty rating by one. To gather lost souls the Reaper can either find a graveyard or a fresh kill. Roll Soul Capture + Manipulation. For each success the Reaper gains one claimed soul.

Freebies and Experience Points

Reaper players have 15 freebie points to spend as they choose.

Traits	Points per dot
Attribute	5
Abilities	2
Backgrounds	1
Powers	4
Lost Souls	7
Claimed Souls	1