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Character Build Ideas for You

By Maxine

Six ideas for how to arrange your attributes and skill points, covering all the broad archetypes in the game.
The guide I wish I had when I first started playing.
(WIP, I want to add to the descriptions)

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Category: Characters, Classes, Gameplay Basics

Languages: English

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Guide Index

Overview

Introduction and Image Version

Richard Mullen, Ace Detective

Raphael Ambrosius Cousteau, Disco Superstar

Honorable Lieutenant Firewalker

Tequila Sunset, Poetic Policeman

The Harbinger of the Apocalypse

Bloated Corpse of a Drunk

Comments

Introduction and Image Version

This is a series of six character build ideas. This is basically the guide I wish I had when I first started playing and was presented with attribute points to allocate. These builds are intentionally not optimal, they are supposed to be fun and interesting characters who get lots of interesting dialogue choices.
You shouldn't feel obligated to stick to any of these religiously as you progress through the game. Distribute your skill points however feels interesting to you personally!

Richard Mullen, Ace Detective

Intellect + Motorics

Visual calculus -- Assess crime scenes, calculate bullet trajectories, identify footprints.
Logic -- Legendary skills of deduction.
Encyclopedia -- Remembers facts essential to the investigation.
Hand-Eye Coordination -- Skilled with a gun. Hard-boiled.
Interfacing -- Skilled in general. Experienced with tools.
Perception -- Never misses a detail.

You wake up with amnesia and are asked to solve a murder? Easy, just fake it 'til you make it!
Pretend you're a hard-boiled detective who's always one day from retirement.
Has many of the skills most helpful to solving the murder, but...
You're living in a fantasy world. You're an out of shape amnesiac acting like a grizzled, unfriendly fictional detective. Very likely to die of physical or morale damage.

Raphael Ambrosius Cousteau, Disco Superstar

Psyche + Motorics

Inland Empire -- Always trust your necktie.
Suggestion -- Sleazy and charming.
Esprit de Corps -- Yeah, that one sounds fancy.
Savoir Faire -- Show off your disco moves.
Reaction Speed -- Always on your toes.
Composure -- You're the Fashion Police.

Honorable Lieutenant Firewalker

Intellect + Psyche

Rhetoric -- Always right, never wrong.
Logic -- Know what does and doesn't make sense.
Encyclopedia -- Search your inner databases.
Espirit de Corp -- Honor among cops.
Authority -- Make them listen to you. You are the law.
Volition -- Stay sane. You can do this.

Tequila Sunset, Poetic Policeman

Intellect + Physique

Conceptualization -- Understand the world as art, irony, and metafiction.
Drama -- When in doubt, make up a convincing lie.
Rhetoric -- Know-it-all who loves to debate politics.
Shivers -- Notices the eerie, ghostly beauty of the city.
Electrochemistry -- The drugs help you to be a better artist.
Endurance -- Art can be suffering. Suffering can be art.

The Harbinger of the Apocalypse

Physique + Motorics

Shivers - Visions of ruin and despair.
Half-Light - Violent and afraid.
Physical Instrument - Might makes right. Build your strength.
Hand-eye Coordination - Metal and flesh will fly. Find a gun, pronto.
Reaction Speed - Twitchy. Anxious.
Perception - Not some blind sheep. Sees the omens everywhere.

Bloated Corpse of a Drunk

Psyche + Physique

Empathy
Inland Empire
Volition
Pain Threshold
Electrochemistry
Half-Light

7 Comments

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Fem_Bane 14 May @ 10:58am

We runnin beefcake himbo superstar B)

crttr 14 Apr @ 7:28pm

These are great, I think also some of these have some strong thematic political pairing as well that could help, especially since it isn't an either/or decision.

- Ace Detective: Apolitical - politics doesn't help solve a murder

- Disco Superstar: Liberal - Money, partying, superstar detectives need to stay on their game

- Honorable: Centrist, moralintern - protecting principles, the 'status quo'

- Tequilla Sunset: Commie - (pseudo)-intellectual, high-concept, progressive

- Apocalypse Cop: Fascist plays well with Half-Light. Fascism also goes hand-in-hand with conspiracy, paranormal belief and fear-driven motive.

- Bloated Corpse of a Drunk: Unsure politically, but I think this is absolutely the "Sorry Cop" archetype. Probably Apolitical, doesn't even have the self-worth to have an opinion

Marquis de Suave 25 Mar @ 9:13am

Thanks mate,

New to the game, although it's been on my harddrive for 3 years. Have a lot of time to finally play and this will come in helpful.

Aspa 8 Mar @ 10:17pm

Rip not passing. Thanks for the Ideas tho! Fun new way to look at the game!

Maxine [author] 6 Mar @ 11:26am

I'm so sorry for not updating this yet, right after I posted this I started a creative writing class at college which has drained my soul and my sanity and all of my will to write anything.
Good news, that class ends tomorrow. (Bad news, I did NOT pass.)

insanitysmidget 4 Mar @ 5:33pm

You should finish fleshing out the whole concept if you get some time. The only other thing that would be really cool to see is some recommended "Thought Cabinets". Great ideas, love the reference names.

Rastead 8 Feb @ 11:13am

Nice ideas to start new journey. Thanks!

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