Simon Dixon is a Tier 1 Shiny Diplomat who Leads in a Post Apocalyptic world played by Rush99999

► Attacks	Mod	Skill	Pool	Type	Dmg
Fast Punch	-1	P	S	L	2
Cost:Free Distance:Immediate A lightning left jab. Eased by one step from Light weapons.
Light Weapon	-1	P	S	L	2
Cost:Free Distance:Immediate A light weapon of your choice. Granted from Starting Equipment. Eased by one step from Light weapons.

Special Abilities
Good Advice
Anyone can help an ally, easing whatever task they're attempting. However, you have the benefit of clarity and wisdom. When you help another character, they gain an additional asset. Enabler.
page 145 of Cypher System Rulebook Granted from Leads
Natural Charisma
You are trained in all social interactions, whether they involve charm, learning a person's secrets, or intimidating others. Enabler.
page 165 of Cypher System Rulebook Granted from Leads
Encouragement
Costs 1 Intellect point
While you maintain this ability through ongoing inspiring oration, your allies within short range ease one of the following task types (your choice): defense tasks, attack tasks, or tasks related to any skill that you are trained or specialized in. Action.
page 134 of Cypher System Rulebook Granted from Speaker
Anecdote
Costs 2 Intellect points
You can lift the spirits of a group of creatures and help them bond together by entertaining them with an uplifting or pointed anecdote. For the next hour, those who pay attention to your story are trained in a task you choose that's related to the anecdote, as long as it's not an attack or defense task. Action to initiate, one minute to complete.
page 109 of Cypher System Rulebook Granted from Speaker
Retinue
Four level 2 followers join you (and your first follower, if you have one). One of their modifications must be for tasks related to serving as your personal assistants. In addition to other tasks they might individually take on your behalf, they can also work together to run interference if you're trying to avoid someone, help hide you from the attention of others, help you muscle through a crowd, and so on. If a situation becomes physically violent, they provide an asset to your Speed defense tasks and, if you command it, try to hold a foe's attention while you escape. Enabler.
page 177 of Cypher System Rulebook Granted from Speaker
Shiny Maneuver
You know how to push yourself harder, at the risk of a more dramatic failure. When you attempt a shiny maneuver, you ease a task, attack roll, or defense roll, but in doing so you increase the intrusion range by two for that roll, to a 1-3 on a d20. If you fail and decide to retry the task (requiring that you spend a level of Effort, as normal), it has the same increased intrusion range. Once you attempt a shiny maneuver, you can't attempt another until you make a recovery roll. Enabler.
page 118 of Rust and Redemption Granted from Shiny

Special Abilities

Good Advice

Anyone can help an ally, easing whatever task they're attempting. However, you have the benefit of clarity and wisdom. When you help another character, they gain an additional asset. Enabler.

Natural Charisma

You are trained in all social interactions, whether they involve charm, learning a person's secrets, or intimidating others. Enabler.

Encouragement

Costs 1 Intellect point

While you maintain this ability through ongoing inspiring oration, your allies within short range ease one of the following task types (your choice): defense tasks, attack tasks, or tasks related to any skill that you are trained or specialized in. Action.

Anecdote

Costs 2 Intellect points

You can lift the spirits of a group of creatures and help them bond together by entertaining them with an uplifting or pointed anecdote. For the next hour, those who pay attention to your story are trained in a task you choose that's related to the anecdote, as long as it's not an attack or defense task. Action to initiate, one minute to complete.

Retinue

Four level 2 followers join you (and your first follower, if you have one). One of their modifications must be for tasks related to serving as your personal assistants. In addition to other tasks they might individually take on your behalf, they can also work together to run interference if you're trying to avoid someone, help hide you from the attention of others, help you muscle through a crowd, and so on. If a situation becomes physically violent, they provide an asset to your Speed defense tasks and, if you command it, try to hold a foe's attention while you escape. Enabler.

Shiny Maneuver

You know how to push yourself harder, at the risk of a more dramatic failure. When you attempt a shiny maneuver, you ease a task, attack roll, or defense roll, but in doing so you increase the intrusion range by two for that roll, to a 1-3 on a d20. If you fail and decide to retry the task (requiring that you spend a level of Effort, as normal), it has the same increased intrusion range. Once you attempt a shiny maneuver, you can't attempt another until you make a recovery roll. Enabler.

Cyphers
Catholicon	Level 4
Cures any disease of the cypher level or lower. Manifest
page 385 of Cypher System Rulebook
Intellect booster	Level 4
Adds 1 to the user's Intellect Edge for one hour (or 2 if the cypher is level 5 or higher). Subtle
page 391 of Cypher System Rulebook
Limit of 2

Cyphers

Catholicon

Level 4

Cures any disease of the cypher level or lower. Manifest

Intellect booster

Level 4

Adds 1 to the user's Intellect Edge for one hour (or 2 if the cypher is level 5 or higher). Subtle

Limit of 2

Armor Type	Untrained	Practiced	Experienced
Light Armor	+2	+1	0
Medium Armor	+3	+2	+1
Heavy Armor	+4	+3	+2

Armor Type

Untrained

Practiced

Experienced

Mastery

Light Armor

Medium Armor

Heavy Armor

▽ Background

A Diplomat is also known as a Speaker

Diplomat
You're good with words and good with people. You talk your way past challenges and out of jams, and you get people to do what you want. Speakers are smart and charismatic. They like people and, more important, they understand them. This helps speakers get others to do what needs to be done.

Shiny
You're brash and bright, and you exult in situations, people, and objects that seem to you as if they have a similar sheen. Literally shiny objects qualify, as well as objects that are not rusted or degraded by time's passage or the effects of the apocalypse. You also tend to fall into the orbit of people who are strong, unbeaten, and possessed of an inner brightness. You believe that they, like you, reflect the light of some greater spiritual purpose in the world. When you believe you are acting in that glow, you are emboldened and may take risks others fear. You don't seek death, but you're confident that death in the pursuit of something shiny is the definition of a life well-lived.

Leads
Your natural leadership capability allows you to command others, including a loyal band of followers.

Choose how you became involved in the adventure:

It seemed like there were equal odds that the other PCs wouldn't succeed, which sounded good to you.
The first word that popped into your head upon seeing the PCs was “shiny.”
You think the tasks ahead will present you with unique and fulfilling challenges.
Someone you trust and respect above all others suggested you join the PCs to help them complete their task.

▽ Connections

You have traveled extensively, and during that time you accumulated quite a collection of strange souvenirs.

Pick one other PC. That character has an extra item of regular equipment you gave them, either something you made or an item you just wanted to give them. (They choose the item.)

▽ Notes

Possible player intrusions based on your character type:
Friendly NPC
An NPC you don't know, someone you don't know that well, or someone you know but who hasn't been particularly friendly in the past chooses to help you, though doesn't necessarily explain why. Maybe they'll ask you for a favor in return afterward, depending on how much trouble they go to.

Perfect Suggestion
A follower or other already-friendly NPC suggests a course of action with regard to an urgent question, problem, or obstacle you're facing.

Unexpected Gift
An NPC hands you a physical gift you were not expecting, one that helps put the situation at ease if things seem strained, or provides you with a new insight for understanding the context of the situation if there's something you're failing to understand or grasp.

Lithe
+2 to your Speed Pool.
Granted from Shiny

Possible GM intrusion from your focus:
Followers fail, betray, lie, become corrupted, get kidnapped, or die.

► Creation Log

Source Books

Cypher System Rulebook
Rust and Redemption

Version 3.04.20

New Language Support - Developer Notes

We're experimenting with non-English language support to see if there is enough demand for it. You can let us know which language you would support by changing it under your Account Details. This will have three effects. 1) Some of the web ui had been translated, but it's not complete. 2) Creating new characters will have some strings translated to the selected Language, but the web site will continue to mostly display English for the character abilities. 3) Except, downloading the character sheets in either PDF or text format will translate them almost completely. This last part was the main focus of this effort, could we get the character sheets to mostly be translated.

Laundry Day

available from Cozy Magic Flavor

(Meta)

You select two batches of laundry within immediate range, each large enough for a typical washing machine or dryer. The laundry agitates and spins in midair for a minute, becoming clean and dry as it does so, after which it sorts and stacks itself into neat piles or, if you know where it belongs and that's within short range, putting itself away. Particularly dirty clothes automatically take a few extra minutes to finish cleaning and drying. The spell doesn't harm delicate items or clothing that needs special care (such as dry cleaning or low temperature). In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can use Effort to affect more batches of laundry; each level of Effort affects two additional batches. Action to initiate; one minute to complete. page 72 of It's Only Magic

► Skills	I	P	T
Quadbiking			T
page 118 of Rust and Redemption Granted from Shiny
Speed Defense Tasks			T
You know how to get out of the way. You are trained in Speed defense tasks. page 118 of Rust and Redemption Granted from Shiny
Light Weapons		P
Light Weapons Granted from Diplomat
Deception And Disguise Tasks	I
You are irrepressible, but that makes it hard to dissemble. Deception and disguise tasks are hindered. page 118 of Rust and Redemption Granted from Shiny
Heavy Weapons	I
Heavy Weapons Granted from Diplomat
Medium Weapons	I
Medium Weapons Granted from Diplomat
Sneaking And Staying Quiet	I
You may be lithe and shiny, but you're not sneaky. Tasks related to sneaking and staying quiet are hindered. page 118 of Rust and Redemption Granted from Shiny