Advice on Advantages

Some advice on good advantages to take.

Advantages Everyone Should Consider

The following is a list of advantages that will be... well, advantageous to any character in any gameworld. You should really consider taking some of these when you make your character.

• Toughness - Always nice to have a DR even when you're not wearing any armor.
• Luck (any kind) - Being able to reroll one in a while is sure a nice thing.
• Resistance/Immunity to Disease/Poisons - You may not need to use this one very often, but when some nasty infection or poison arrow hits you, you'll be thankful that you got this one.
• Fit / Very Fit - It's nice to be able to recover fatigue faster or lose it slower. It's especially nice to have plusses to your HT rolls (you always want to make your HT rolls.) Also, consider this in combination with the "Extra Effort" active defense rules.
• Combat Reflexes - Massive bonuses for a mere 15 points.
• Animal Empathy - +4 to all skills that have anything to do with an animal (probably more useful at lower tech levels).

Getting a Little Extra Help

Here is a list of advantages (and some disadvantages) that a player could take to get some additional help from the GM. Also, if there is a player in the group who is perhaps a bit younger, or less experienced, or lacks initiative, or has difficulty figuring things out, the GM could suggest that the player take one of these.

• Common Sense - The book even recommends that this one be taken by impulsive players who want to try to play a more thoughtful character.
• Danger Sense / ESP - Like 'Common Sense', this can allow players to get some forewarning from the GM before somehting bad happens.
• Eidedic Memory - This is handy if the GM dropped you a clue earlier (especially something easy to forget like a name or a sequence of numbers). With this, the GM could say: "You recall with your eidedic memory that the guard said the password would rhyme with 'dove'". Alternatively, a more cogniscent player could (politely) ask the GM: "What was that thing that the guard said?"
• Intuition - If the players are facing a life-or-death decision, this can be a real godsend to them. If the GM remembers this (or the players can tactfully remind him), and he gives the players a big clue to help them at that most critical moment, he will reassure the players that, while he might be hard on them at times, he's really on their side.
• Patron/Ally - If the PC is in trouble, a benevolent NPC can swoop in to give him a hand.