Val CHA Cost Roll Notes 15 STR 5 12- Lift 200 kg; 3d6 HTH Damage [3] 15 DEX 15 12- OCV: 5/DCV: 5 13 CON 6 12- 10 BODY 0 11- 13 INT 3 12- PER Roll 12- 11 EGO 2 11- ECV: 4 13 PRE 3 12- PRE Attack: 2 1/2d6 12 COM 1 11- 4 PD 1 Total: 4 PD (0 rPD) 4 ED 1 Total: 4 ED (0 rED) 3 SPD 5 Phases: 4, 8, 12 6 REC 0 26 END 0 25 STUN 0 Total Characteristics Cost: 42 Movement: Running: 10"/20" Leaping: 3"/6" Swimming: 5"/10" Cost Powers & Skills 8 "Swiftest Fellow On His Feet I Ever Saw": Running +4" (10" total), END 1 3 "Swam Through In About Thirty Strokes": Swimming +3" (5" total), END 1 Skills 12 "At One Blow Cut Off His Head": +2 with HTH and Ranged Combat 3 Climbing 12- 2 KS: Christian Theology 11- 2 Language: English (fluent conversation) 5 Language: (native tongue) (idiomatic; literate) 1 Navigation (Marine) 8- 2 PS: Farmer 11- 1 PS: Sailing 8- 2 PS: Servant 11- 1 PS: Shipwright 8- 2 Survival (Tropical) 12- 2 TF: Small Rowed Boats, Small Wind-Powered Boats 4 WF: Early Firearms, Axes, Blades, Clubs Total Powers & Skill Cost: 50 Total Cost: 92 50+ Disadvantages 0 Normal Characteristic Maxima 20 Psychological Limitation: Oath Of Loyalty To Robinson Crusoe (Common, Total) 10 Social Limitation: Minority/Social Inferior In 17th Century Society (Frequently, Minor) 12 Experience Points Total Disadvantage Points: 92
Description: Robinson Crusoe encounters Friday after spending 25 years and 6 months alone on his island. A party of cannibals come to this island for one of their periodic feasts, and while butchering one man are distracted enough for Friday to run off. Robinson sees him and helps by shooting one pursuer and clubbing another (whom Friday then kills with Robinson’s sword). Now indebted to Robinson for saving his life, Friday swears himself to service for life.
The two spend another three years on the island, building another canoe, fighting off another party of cannibals, and eventually leaving the island together. Along the way, Robinson teaches Friday English, makes him into a “good Christian,” and trains him to be an “expert sailor.” As for Friday himself, he’s the faster runner Robinson has ever seen, a power swimmer, and skilled with the sword, bow, and (eventually) musket.
Robinson Crusoe describes Friday as follows:
Man Friday's Hero Designer File
(Man Friday created by Daniel Defoe, character sheet created by Michael Surbrook)
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