Copyrgith (c) 1996 by John Wood <john@elvw.demon.co.uk>

Remember Thing from the Addams Family?  Another character from my
upcoming IOU game is Thing's niece, a computer wiz.  I've been using the
Race Creation Rules from FF2 (BTW, good work, Doctor), and this is what
I've got so far, based on the old series and the first movie:

Hands (85 pts):  ST 10, DX 10/13, IQ 10, HT 10/3, Speed 7

Advantages (+129):            Disadvantages (-75):
  Catfall               +10     Horizontal            -10
  Increased Speed +2    +50     Mute (Correctible)*   -15
  Injury Tolerance:             One Fine Manipulator  -15
    No Brain             +5     Reduced Hit Points-7  -35
    No Neck              +5
    No Vitals            +5   Skills (+6):
  Manual Dexterity +3    +9     Acrobatics@DX         +4
  Perfect Balance       +15     Climbing@DX           +2
  Sensitive Touch       +10     Gesture@IQ+3**        +1
  Super Jump 2 (*4)     +20     Jumping@DX+1          +2

Psionics (+25):
  Teleport Power 7      +21  (into hidden containers only, -40%)
  Autoteleport@IQ        +4

*  Invented - see below.
** Including Mute bonus.

Most of the acrobatic stuff is based on the film version; the teleport
is because of the way Thing always used to appear from cigar boxes, etc
in the old series.

Horizontal is to represent the way they can't move and manipulate (or
easily carry) objects at the same time; One Fine Manipulator and the
Injury Tolerances should be obvious 8-).  I didn't give them
Inconvenient Size because, like cats, Thing seemed very comfortable in
the human world.

Sensitive Touch, Manual DX and the skills were just appropriate and/or
to round up the point total to a nice number.

Now the tricky stuff.

I set average Hit Points at 3, partly because that's approximately the
amount of damage needed to cripple an average human's hand, partly
because that was the level given to Enhanced Cats - and I see the Hands
as quite like cats.  Does this seem reasonable?

I didn't alter ST/Fatigue - but I'm *very* unsure about this!  A Hand
can't do as much with its ST if it's not attached to a human - not
enough leverage, for one thing.  Any ideas as to what level I should set
it at?  I remember Thing in the film pulling a "hand-cart" with no
problems.

Alison (the player) suggested having a very small computer (with
speaker) slung across the Hand's back, which could be flipped off and
used for communication, a la Stephen Hawking.  This would reduce the
points break for Mute, but since it can't be done while moving I didn't
think it warranted as much of a reduction as Correctible Bad Sight, so I
set the cost of "Correctible Mute" at 15 pts.  does this seem about
right?

Also, does -40% seem about right for the Teleport limitation "only into
hidden containers"?  I was going to assume that not being able to see
into it was not a problem - no skill penalty, no castling, no exploding
as your atoms merge with the cigars in the box...