The format is changing slightly since I am writing these with benefit of some nifty chargen software I didn't have several years ago when I wrote most of the Buffy Archetypes.  The main thing is that Uniforge doesn't give me output that breaks down where all the stat and skill bonuses go, so you'll have to trust me.

These are, on the other hand, "made fresh" rather than recycling old material.

This one is one I'm playing in a PBP game right now.

 

The Reluctant Seer (Investigator)

Attributes:

Strength: 2 Dexterity: 2 Constitution: 2

Intelligence: 4 Perception: 3 Willpower: 4

Life Points: 26
Drama Points: 20

Qualities (10 + 10 from Drawbacks)

Contacts (Supernatural): 1 (1), Occult Investigator: 1 (4), Supernatural Senses - Basic: 1 (1), Supernatural Senses - The Sight: 1 (3), Occult Library: 1 (1), Supernatural Senses - Insight: 1 (5), Supernatural Senses - Fortune Telling: 1 (5)

Drawbacks (10)

Addiction (Smoking): 1 (-1), Adversary (TBA): 3 (-3), Emotional Problems - Fear of Commitment: 1 (-1), Honorable: 1 (-1), Impaired Senses (Vision, Corrected): 1 (-1), Mental Problems - Cruelty: 1 (-1), Resources Drawback: 1 (-2),

Skills (25)

Acrobatics: 0, Art: 0, Computers: 1, Crime: 2, Doctor: 1, Driving: 1, Getting Medieval: 2, Gun Fu: 1, Influence: 0, Knowledge: 5, Kung Fu: 1, Languages: 4, Mr. Fix-it: 0, Notice: 0, Occultism: 5, Science: 2, Sports: 0

Background on the Reluctant Seer

It all started with the Enigma of Astaroth.  Not Astaroth the demon of Sloth, just some 14th century sorcerer who liked his name.  Like there's fifty Balthazars, ya know.  But anyway, I'm a folklorist.  I studied various occult traditions and folkways for years without ever believing it.  Vampire attacks were just urban myths, like the Highway Hook Murderer (who is also real, by the way).  Wicked witches were just old religious propaganda.

That changed when the Enigma wound up on my desk, which was due to a screwup at the shipping company, but I didn't know that until later.  The Enigma was a book with a strange lock on it.  To open the lock, you had to work out the combination, which was a tricky math puzzle.  I love math puzzles.  So I worked it out.  After that, things got a little weird.  Then things got a lot weird.

I could see all kinds of stuff I didn't want to see, and I kept getting visions of the future.  So I did what anyone would do.  I tried to play the lotto a lot and ignore the rest of it.  An encounter with a fire spirit in the Dean's office put an end to that (and resulted in some not entirely voluntary time in a psychiatric hospital)

Now I'm trying to learn all I can about real magick.  A lot of what I know is true, but a lot isn't.  And let me tell you, nothing's quite as embarrassing as throwing a bunch of poppy seeds at a vampire and having him laugh at you.

Don't get me wrong.  I'm not some big bad hero here.  I'm just trying to survive.  That first fire spirit wasn't the only one.  It seems like every month or so, something new and interesting tries to kill me.

Fortunately, I've hooked up with some folks who are into this whole "fight the good fight" thing.  They're not the sharpest tools in the shed, but they have swords and guns and stuff that come in really handy when all the dead bodies in the cemetary arise and try to kill you.

Quote: "I predict that if you don't surrender now, there will be blood, pain, and ultimately death.  I just wish to hell I knew if it was going to happen to you or me."

Roleplaying the Reluctant Seer

You're a smart guy, but not at all a brave one.  And you're geeky enough to realize that it's a terrible cliché that you've taken up smoking, wearing a battered overcoat, and not shaving regularly.

You'd like nothing more than to somehow remove your powers and forget any of this ever happened.  Except...

Except, you like knowing what's going on.  Except, you know what it's like to be the normal person suddenly dumped into the deep end of the supernatural swimming pool, and you don't really want to see it happen to anyone else.  Except, you're pretty sure someone is trying to kill you, and he'll keep trying until you figure out who it is and make him stop.  Except, deep down, you really are a hero.  Maybe it's arrogance, but you know that you need to be doing what you're doing.

Sample Equipment

Laptop computer, The Enigma of Astaroth (a spellbook), Notepad.  No gun.  He doesn't really like guns.