Rob

Great ideas, guys, thans. I'll give an example. My game will have vampires, but their bite does not turn people (they breed rather than turn). Instead, their bite, if a save is failed, would cause the victim to slowly rot from the inside out, like a nastier version of leprosy. What would you say its POT should be? Low? Mid level?

Apologies if someone already posted this, but tell her not to be intimidated by more experienced gamers. I made that mistake and ended up being a quiet support player for most of my time in my previous group. My partner is going to play for the first time soon and I've told her not to be afraid to just do something as bad choices can lead to the best memories in gaming. In my last group, I heard stories of accidentally throwing acid in another character's face, accidentally killing everyone with a fireball, accidentally shooting someone in the arse with a crossbow, using a dwarf as a missile weapon and accidentally killing a party member, the list goes on and on and all of them are funny. In-character banter is fun too

Hey, I'm Rob and am new to this forum. I have a BRP book and have learned a fair bit from it, but I was looking over the examples of poisons, each having a description of symptoms and a potency number. The thing is, it doesn't tell you how to apply this to any poisons or venoms not in the book, so my question is; how do you figure out what value a certain poison may have? How would you know what to compare it to? I ask because I'm writing up my own game and some classic creatures have been altered to take on my own twists, some including venom/poison. The problem is, while I have the symptoms written up, I have no idea what would be a fair potency to apply to each. Are there any guidelines I can use? Do any of you have tips or something I can work with? I'd really appreciate if you can help me out here, since randomly allocating a value would end up either becoming stupidly powerful or not powerful enough.