Dilettante Careers - Specifically, The Serial Seducer

[alex_greene]

I don't have my copy of Dilettante with me right now, but I don't recall a specific career - namely "serial seducer."

It seems that, of all the Noble and dilettante careers, the Don Giovanni / Casanova, raffish charmer, serial heartbreaker type is probably one of the commonest tropes.

I don't recommend it for PCs in this cold, sterile, PG-certificate SFRPG, but as an NPC it's perfect as a Patron, Rival or even an enemy.

I'm just working on an NPC with just such a reputation for the ladies. The characters have to grant him passage off-world; in exchange, he can get them contacts they haven't got a hope of meeting otherwise.

Problem is how he gets stranded on the backwoods planet he ended up on. There's a reason why they just found him there in the desert, sitting on a rock ...

Of course, high levels of Carouse, Deception, Diplomat and Persuade are pretty much guaranteed in this man's makeup, along with a couple of weapons skills - though this man will never need to say "I'm a lover, not a fighter" because he'll scream it in his very bearing and manner.

Inspirations: Robert Greene's "The Art of Seduction," the memoirs of Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt.

 

[Mongoose Pete]

I don't have my copy of Dilettante with me right now, but I don't recall a specific career - namely "serial seducer."

I think I included a career called Paramour to cover this concept. It pretty much covers the skills you suggested. One of the illustrative characters in the book is Rudolph Fitzwilliam, a playboy based on this trope. :wink:

 

[alex_greene]

I don't have my copy of Dilettante with me right now, but I don't recall a specific career - namely "serial seducer."

I think I included a career called Paramour to cover this concept. It pretty much covers the skills you suggested. One of the illustrative characters in the book is Rudolph Fitzwilliam, a playboy based on this trope. :wink:

Genius. Sorted, then. Soon as I can access my copy of Dilettante, I can get right on it.

 

[AndrewW]

Problem is how he gets stranded on the backwoods planet he ended up on. There's a reason why they just found him there in the desert, sitting on a rock ...

You left out naked. It was a scheme of his gone wrong. But the companion saved the day and his ship (errr, the characters ship) picked him up.

The lady he was with decided she had had enough of him and dumped him there.

The ship he was on had to land in the desert due to some engine trouble, they got it fixed but forgot he wasn't on board and left without him. (Or perhaps the forgetting was only a way to get rid of a passenger they didn't care for).

They where hunting some desert animal, the animal attacked and paralyzed him, the others thought he was dead and left him.

 

[alex_greene]

Problem is how he gets stranded on the backwoods planet he ended up on. There's a reason why they just found him there in the desert, sitting on a rock ...

You left out naked. It was a scheme of his gone wrong. But the companion saved the day and his ship (errr, the characters ship) picked him up.

The lady he was with decided she had had enough of him and dumped him there.

The ship he was on had to land in the desert due to some engine trouble, they got it fixed but forgot he wasn't on board and left without him. (Or perhaps the forgetting was only a way to get rid of a passenger they didn't care for).

They where hunting some desert animal, the animal attacked and paralyzed him, the others thought he was dead and left him.

He fell foul of Rule Number One: It doesn't matter how pretty she is, Don't Try To Seduce The Captain!

 

[BP]

The husband found out...

 

[rust]

I am more for simple, "pedestrian" explanations ... 8)

I think he woke up in the middle of the night because he had to go to the
toilet, unaware that the ship meanwhile had landed on the desert world
for minor engine repairs. Still very sleepy, he missed the toilet door and
finally stepped through the airlock, which had been left open to refresh
the ship's atmosphere. Looking for a nice hidden place for his business on
a featureless desert world, he had to walk some distance until he came
to a nice big rock that hid him from sight - and the ship from his sight.

Well, and when he had finished his business and returned the repairs had
been done, and the ship had left, the crew unaware that their passenger
had left the ship.

 

[BP]

Nah - he just went out for a smoke... :lol:

 

[rinku]

Algy and Rupert thought that it would be a jolly wheeze while he was out cold after a hard night on the burgundy...

 

[alex_greene]

Algy and Rupert thought that it would be a jolly wheeze while he was out cold after a hard night on the burgundy...

Now there's a case of giving the Referee ideas ...