Thanks everyone who chimed in with advice for people playing Skinners. I’d like to hear about what you would suggest for folks that want to play BATTLEBABE. What are some good goals for a Battlebabe? What should a Battlebabe try to do in game?
The little bit of research and personal playing I got to do as a BB led me to understand that they are great for causing and getting out of trouble. BB’s can take a drastic stand on something and their +3 cool will get their butts out of any trouble that comes their way. When I played a BB I was in charge of security and when a riot started I walked into the middle of it, said “This stops now or you have to go through me” and using my cool to Go Aggro, I put the whole gang on their heels.
I also ran a game where the BB was in control of the only water supply in the area. She had the only green lawn in the desert and the Hardholder needed her to let the holding have the water. The Hardholder was a bastard and the BB was not going to back down from him. The HH threw just about everything he had at the BB and by the end, most of the holding was destroyed and the BB was still there.
BB’s are great “heroes of the apocalypse”. You can take on just about any threat, as long as you are clever. You may not beat it, but you can survive it. Be willing to take an extreme stand on something. Good or bad. That’s where I believe you’ll find the most fun.
The Battlebabe thinks they are, or they really are, the protagonist of a cheap TV show that lasts about 20 episodes and doesn’t get to finish. You know, that one with the no-name actor that turns out to be amazing in a few years? Yeah, that.
No matter what everyone is planning, you do your own thing, and your own thing is the de-facto right thing. Because whatever you are, you’re not a monster, or a schemer, you’re just free-wheeling with whatever idea feels right at the time. Because you’re a badass skull-train driven by a lioness through a neon glow vagina-pink desert of explosions and sex. You’re chaos, you’re destruction, you’re the atomic bomb going off and changing everything. Bang bang.
You turn up, you transform the world, you go. Or you stay, and like the sun the world starts to turn around you.
Raylan Givens (from Justified) is the archetypical Battlebabe in my mind!