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This is a 4e conversion of Allan Pinkerton[1]
Allan Pinkerton[]

Allan Pinkerton
Cost: 232 ([150]+[0]+[31]+[-31]+[82]+[0]) points
Basic Details[]
Born 1819; died 1884.
Description: Age 43; 5’8”; 150 lbs. A thick-set, bearded man, with cool, penetrating blue-gray eyes and a thick Glaswegian accent dressed in a suit and flat bowler hat.
Attributes and Secondary Characteristics[]
Section total: [150]
Attributes | Secondary Characteristics |
Speed | Move | SM | 0 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ST | 12 | [20] | HP | 12 | [0] | Basic | 5.75 | 5 | DR | 0 |
DX | 10 | [0] | Will | 16 | [10] | Modifier | 0 | 0 | Dodge | 8 |
IQ | 14 | [80] | Per | 16 | [10] | Final | 5.75 | 5 | Parry | N/A |
HT | 13 | [30] | FP | 13 | [0] | Cost | [0] | [0] | Block | N/A |
Total | [150] | Total | [0] |
Air Move | Basic Speed x 2 (dropping all fractions) | NA |
---|---|---|
Water Move | Basic Move/5, rounded down | NA |
Striking ST Bonus |
0 | Lifting ST Bonus |
Lifting ST |
Basic Lift |
Cost | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Striking ST | 12 | 0 | 12 | 28.8 | [0] | |
Thrust Damage |
1d-1 | Up to | Encumbrance Level |
Move | Dodge | |
Swing Damage |
1d+2 | 28.8 lbs | None | 5 | 8 | |
Cost | [0] | 57.6 lbs | Light | 4 | 7 | |
86.4 lbs | Medium | 3 | 6 | |||
172.8 lbs | Heavy | 2 | 5 | |||
288 lbs | Extra-Heavy | 1 | 4 |
Social Background[]
Total: [0]
- TL 5 [0]
- Cultural Familiarity: Western [0]
- Language(s) [0]: English (Native)
Advantages and Perks[]
Total: [31]
- Ally Group (Personal staff of operatives, x0.25; 6-20, x8; 15) [6]
- Reputation +2 (Tough, relentless and reliable, among police and some others) [5]
- Status 1 (from Wealth) [0]
- Wealth (Wealthy) [20]
Disadvantage and Quirks[]
Total: [-31]
- Odious Personal Habit (Blunt, socially awkward) [-5]
- Proud [-1]
- Reputation -2 (Relentless enemy, among many criminals and Confederate officers and spies) [-5]
- Sense of Duty (to operatives) [-5]
- Stubbornness [-5]
- Workaholic [-5]
- Believes in sexual and racial equality [-1]
- Control freak [-1]
- Does not smoke or drink [-1]
- No great sympathy for labor unions [-1]
- Voracious reader [-1]
Skills[]
Total: [82]
- Acting (A) (IQ+1) — 15 [4]
- Administration (A) (IQ+2) — 16 [8]
- Artist (specialization in pen portraits) (H) (IQ+3) — 17 [16]
- Brawling (E) (DX+2) — 12 [4]
- Criminology/TL 5 (A) (IQ+4) — 18 [16]
- Cryptography/TL 5 (H) (IQ±0) — 14 [4]
- Guns/TL 5 (Pistol) (E) (DX+2) — 12 [4]
- Intelligence Analysis/TL 5 (H) (IQ±0) — 14 [4]
- Interrogation (A) (IQ±0) — 14 [2]
- Law (H) (IQ-2) — 12 [1]
- Leadership (A) (IQ+1) — 15 [4]
- Professional Skill (Cooper) (A) (IQ+1) — 14 [4]
- Riding (Horse) (A) (DX+2) — 12 [8]
- Shadowing (A) (IQ+1) — 15 [4]
- Stealth (A) (DX+2) — 12 [8]
- Streetwise (A) (IQ+1) — 14 [4]
- Writing (A) (IQ-1) — 12 [1]
Additional Information[]
- Allan Pinkerton: The Knights of Capitalism
References[]
- ↑ Classic: Who's Who 2 pg 84-85