T3

Attributes / Strength / Bruiser

You are big and well-muscled, looking almost artifical in your physical perfection. Very few people outside of anatomy books have your well-defined body, and your lean muscle mass weights more than usual, making you even heavier than you look. This makes you stand out in a crowd and marks you as exceptional. It can also scare ordinary people.

A variant of this is the gigant, who lacks well-defined muscles, instead just being exceptionally large, seemingly out of scale with the surroundings.

Option: Because size plays such a big role in Strength, and male characters tend to be larger than females, the "normal" maxima for males is one higher and that of females one lower than normal for the race. If this option is used, the corresponding option under Pockmarked should also be used.

For a character to have an exceptional attribute, outside the "normal" range you must first purchase a specific Pulp Schtick for each sub-attribute. This not only adds a small extra cost, it also gives more or less defined special traits and extraordinary characteristics tied to such high ability scores. Unlike ordinary Pulp schticks, these offer no or very little benefit and some hindrance; they are more flaws than schticks but you still pay for them. If you want to be able to get exceptional attributes but do not want the effects of the schtick, you can pay double price to ignore the effect.

These schticks are considered genre schticks and are not used in all campaigns. See Schticks and Exceptional.