The playbooks are archetypes and they evoke a particular kind of character. Brainers are clinical psychics, Hocus are holymen, and Skinners (in my experience, 4/5) are wandering musicians. The game is all about intepretation of vague but solidifying tags, but I don't always get to see much variation. Savvyheads are machinists who build robots and waterpurifiers whose advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, what if it was played as just magic? An alchemist who creates humonculi by reaching through realities fraying edge and their controlled growing environment.

I've toyed with the idea of a Brainer artist whose brain relay are murals based on the area/close tag and  enjoys taking receptivity drugs with guests in their studio abode. Take artful and gracious later on and we have a budding celebrity who has some captivating and cerebral work. But it does completely ignore the high tech tag on the brain relay. For the MC's in the house, is that taking too many liberties with character creation?

Would anyone on here like to share their more unconventional characters or idea they've kept on the back burner?

I ran a Skinner in a spaghetti western apocalypse. His artful and gracious was tied to ornate, quality firearms. The MC allowed my starting barter to be a suitcase full of gun-smithing tools that acted as a limited work space as he traveled from town to town.

The Skinner couldn't do a lot beyond firearm maintenance until he got a better set up, so he charmed the local blacksmith. He didn't have much money for materials so he instigated a party and ended up cleaning house by selling his starting gun to drunk NPC's. Afterward he had some fun guns for him and the Faceless to play with but it took some finagling. 

I'm always a fan of bio-punk settings ever since I read The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi and playing  Bioshock.

So here's the premise. People have perfected cloning first with animals and much later with humans. Genetic modifications is common place. At first it's practical: disease resistances for AIDS ridden populations in Africa, Japan's population problem is fixable through cloning. People start modifying animals and creating pets cheshire cats, chimeras, and miniature extinct species like dodos and wooly mammoths . Eventually specially designed "Kaiju" are made to fight in a modern day coliseum. Perhaps this leads to military made monsters who knows but Jurassic Park's cautionary tale wasn't heeded and now the end of the world is populated with dragons, and other fantastic fauna/flora.

Borrowed Imagery

• http://www.deviantart.com/art/PokeMonster-Hunter-184751431
• http://www.deviantart.com/art/Kaiju-408029867
• http://www.deviantart.com/art/Cho-gath-vs-Ryze-202427998
• http://exquisitebeast.tumblr.com/

Tying in with what derendal said with the high weird being a set back, you could make it harm move of sorts. The higher you roll the worse off you are- you tripped to hard and dreamed to far. That might give low weird characters an incentive to expand their mind with Focus, its effects are something they can't get anywhere else.

I talked to the MC about Maestro D' but the entire town got razed, gun fights ensued, we even turned the gun store into a giant shrapnel bomb/trap to take out a large mob of the possessed. A Hardholder 's nothing with an empty hold.

Grinn wants to take care of survivors because he feels responsible enough and it killed him to slaughter the insane townsfolk who he drank and broke bread with earlier. He couldn't help everyone so he's narrowing the spectrum of who he's willing to care and look after. The playboy has been hardened by this upset.

The Chopper makes an interesting but fitting twist- they have nothing but each other now and they'll take up arms to protect that. The town is finished and they'll cut their losses and move forward to an uncertain future.

I do like the travelling gun slinging bordello a la Maestro D'. Though I think that might be Grinn's successor when I retire him to safety (or NPC status), after he gets the ladies and the former sheriff on their feet after these traumatic events. The campaign seems like it could easily last that long.

I really appreciate the feedback. I'd never played a skinner myself until I read this post and wanted to contribute. It's been a gratifying storytelling experience so far.

I must've aced the roll with double sixes, that link was lovely.

My regular MC and I have been playing for a few years together, and all of our campaigns have been set in the same mythos. He has been talking about co-MCing a new universe with me. I've really playing through fictional history and enjoyed designing threats  for different parts of the new world but I was wondering about the logistics of this. I see three options.

1) We MC simultaneously and tag in/out between scenes.
2) We take turns MCing every other session.
3) We MC one full campaign and then switch.

I'm wondering if 1) going to be too confusing and awkward. 2) and 3) seem more accessible and also allow for us create/play as our own PC's.

Thoughts?