Boom! Studios
Dark Horse Comics
Ombura
GILES
Circa BtVS Season Five
Power Level 5 ( 75 PP )
Hush (S.4, E.10) wrote:Olivia: All the time you used to talk to me about witchcraft and darkness and the like— I just thought you were being pretentious.
Giles: Oh I was. I was also right.
Olivia: So everything you told me was true.
Giles: Well no, um, I wasn't actually one of the original members of Pink Floyd. But the monster stuff, yes.
ABILITIES
Strength 1
Stamina 2
Agility 2
Dexterity 2
Fighting 4
Intellect 4
Awareness 1
Presence 4
ADVANTAGES
Assessment, Benefit [Wealth (1)], Contacts, Defensive Attack, Eidetic Memory, Equipment (4), Improvised Weapon (1), Leadership, Ritualist, Well-Informed
SKILLS
Close Combat [Archaic Weapons] 2 (+6); Close Combat [Unarmed] 1 (+5); Deception 6 (+10); Expertise [Arcane Lore] 6 (+10); Expertise [Dead Languages*] 2 (+6); Expertise [Vampires & Demons] 4 (+8); Insight 4 (+5); Intimidation 1 (+5); Persuasion 4 (+8); Ranged Combat [Crossbows] 3 (+5); Treatment 1 (+5)
POWERS
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Ripper Enhanced Advantage 1 (Ultimate Intimidation) [ 1 PP ]
EQUIPMENT
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Wooden Stake Damage 1 (Strength-based;
E: Feature - Counts as Improvised Weapon) [ 2 EP ]
Cabinet Full of Weapons (Array; 10 EP)
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Arming Sword Damage 3 (Strength-based;
E: Improved Critical [1]) [ 4 EP ]
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AE: Battleaxe Damage 3 (Strength-based;
E: Penetrating [1]) [ 1 EP ]
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AE: Chainsaw Damage 6 (
F: Activation [Move, -1], Distracting) [ 1 EP ]
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AE: Crossbow Damage 3 (
E: Improved Critical [1], Ranged;
F: Distracting) [ 1 EP ]
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AE: Spear Damage 3 (Strength-based;
E: Reach [1]) [ 1 EP ]
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AE: Holy Water Vials Affliction 4 (
Resist: Dodge;
Recover: Will;
Conditions: Impaired, Disabled;
E: Cumulative, Ranged;
F: Limited to Two Degress, Limited to Vampires) [ 1 PP ]
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AE: Holy Cross Affliction 4 (
Resist/Recover: Will;
Conditions: Entranced, Compelled;
E: Ranged, Progressive;
F: Limited to Two Degress, Limited to Repulsion, Limited to Vampires) [ 1 PP ]
The Magic Box (3 EP)
Size: Tiny [ -1 EP ]
Toughness: 6 [ 0 EP ]
Features: Gym, Library, Secret (DC10), Security System [ 4 EP ]
Mid-Life Crisis Sportscar (5 EP)
Size: Large [ 1 EP ]
Strength: 4 [ 0 EP ]
Speed: 5 [ 5 EP ]
Defense: 8 [ 0 EP ]
Toughness: 6 [ -1 EP ]
DEFENSE
Dodge (4)
Base 2
Parry: (4)
Base 0
Fortitude: (4)
Base 2
Toughness: (2)
Base -
Will: (6)
Base 2
WORKSHEET
Attack 5 Effect 1 Total: 6 (Unarmed)
Attack 5 Effect 3 Total: 8 (Wooden Stake)
Attack 6 Effect 4 Total: 6 (Arming Sword)
Attack 6 Effect 4 Total: 6 (Battleaxe)
Attack 4 Effect 6 Total: 10 (Chainsaw)
Attack 5 Effect 3 Total: 8 (Crossbow)
Attack 6 Effect 4 Total: 6 (Spear)
Dodge 4 Tough. 2 Total: 6
Parry 4 Tough. 2 Total: 6
Fort. 4 Will 6 Total: 10
COMPLICATIONS
NEMESIS (Ethan Rayne): As her Watcher, the enemies of Buffy are the enemies of Giles, and she doesn't lack for those. However, Giles has a longstanding rivalry with Ethan Rayne that stretches back to the darker days of his misspent youth. Their hatred of each other is intimate and passionate... in a way that has fueled waaaaaay too much slashfic.
None of which was written by me and you can't prove otherwise.
RELATIONSHIPS (Team Dad): Giles' most intense relationship his his fatherly bond with Buffy, and his is also very fond of the other Summers women: Joyce and Dawn. Xander, Willow, and the rest of the extended Scooby Gang are also important to him.
REPSONSIBILITY (Buffy's Father Figure): Giles' sense of responsibility to Buffy has grown far beyond the typical Watcher/Slayer dynamic. He also carries a deep-seated need to use his knowledge to fight the forces of darkness and had been hunting demons for more than a decade before he came to Sunnydale.
SECRET (Ripper): Rupert does his best to come across as the champion of innocents and all things pure and good, the tweed-clad guardian of the Slayer and her kin. But this persona sometimes slips, revealing that his darker days of black magic and violence are still with him. He hates to let Buffy of any of her friends see this side of him.
ABILITIES [ 40 pp ] +
SKILLS [ 15 pp ] +
ADVANTAGES [ 13 pp ] +
POWERS [ 1 pp ] +
DEFENSES [ 6 pp ] =
75 PP TOTAL
BACKGROUND
Real Name: Rupert Giles
Occupation: Magic Shop Proprietor, Watcher, Retired Librarian
Base of Operations: The Magic Box, Main Street, Sunnydale CA
Date of Birth: Totally Old
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 168 lbs
Eyes: Green
Hair: Greying Brown
Notable Relatives: None
Identity: Secret
Status: Subject of the United Kingdom, Resident Alien in the United States
Rupert Giles had all intentions of becoming a fighter pilot for the Royal Air Force, growing up… that, or maybe a grocer. Either way, his dreams were shattered at the age of ten. His father came to him and explained that young Rupert was to one day be the Watcher of the Slayer, as the elder Giles was now, and his mother before him.
Rupert tried to accept his destiny, but it was too much for a young man to have a destiny. So, during his college years, he rebelled, finding himself involved in many dangerous things, including drugs and dark cults. After time, and a personal crisis, however, he went back to accepting his destiny as Watcher.
Eventually, Giles was assigned to Sunnydale, California. There he was to await the Slayer, whoever and whenever she may be. Knowing that she would, in all likelihood, be a young high school girl, Giles took a “cover” job as librarian at Sunnydale High School. There, he soon learned that the local students and faculty rarely, if ever, visited the library, so he moved much of his private occult collection to the shelves.
Giles met the new Slayer, Buffy Summers, the day she enrolled at Sunnydale High. He recognized her instantly and began to explain who he was. He then learned that she was not interested in her career as Slayer, after trouble she faced at her previous school for such adventuring. A crisis, however, brought the mismatched pair (and some additional friends) together. Then things got... complicated.
Earlier in his career, Giles comes off occasionally as “exceedingly British”—highly intelligent, a rare, but dry, biting sense of humor, a strong sense of responsibility, and a very proper sense of fashion (i.e., he considers it rather unimportant). He “consulted his books” often, and Buffy referred to him as a “textbook with arms.”
Even then, though, there were cracks to the “prim and proper” cover. He, of course, understood from the beginning that information- gathering could not always be completely legal. He, therefore, acknowledged that fact by vocally disclaiming any knowledge of the covert activity and leaving his charges to whatever work lay ahead of them.
Over time, though, it became obvious that this attitude was mostly overcompensation for his wilder youth, and Giles quickly came out of his shell. Today, he is much more a father figure than anything else, and will gladly help any of his friends on a moment’s notice, particularly Buffy, who he regards as a friend, ally, and surrogate daughter.
Expertise (Dead Languages) is a Skill that I have more-or-less invented, although since the standard rules for Expertise are pretty open-ended, this is exactly a House Rule. In the Buffyverse, just about every magical tome and an awful lot of history books detailing monsters, demons, and other assorted nasties are written in long-lost languages. Very rarely spoken, hardly ever used outside of research montages, and apparently easy enough to learn that even Cordelia and Xander manage to pick up enough Latin to join in on the Scooby Gang's nightly library parties.
You can also make Expertise [Dead Languages] checks to see if your character knows enough of the language to be able to derive something useful from the text. The DC is 10 for easy concepts, like you might see in a children's book or a warning label; 15 for basic information, like a newspaper account or a diary; and, 20 or higher for difficult concepts, like a specific ritual or technical manual. You can usually accomplish this sort of thing as a routine check, especially when doing so from the comfortable confines of your local high school library with a nice cuppa tea and a jelly doughnut. When under pressure, like having a vampire attempting to break down the door, you'll probably have to roll and the GM may make a check for you in secret, so you won’t know whether or not your character’s skill is entirely up to the task... And you won't know if you politely asked the mystical guardian to open the portal or just said something very rude about his mother.
at least five pounds of weight. I went through boot camp twenty-one years ago. For a different service. I'm retired now. A family friend retired from the USMC in the Seventies... She can still get me to jump out of my chair when she turns on her "Drill Instructor Voice."
