Nothing

A nothing persona has one main ability, and it allows her to get her way whether she deserves it or not. A nothing can apply social pressure on another nothing to get her way. Pulling privilege involves using connections, wealth or career power to get their way. The nothing persona with the higher social standing wins. The mechanics of this can vary with the milieu and the story.

Pulling privilege does not work on personas with vocations. Nothings can only use this ability on other nothings for inconsequential outcomes. Examples of pulling privilege are using SOC to: get sports ball tickets, jump the queue, university admission, or hairstylist appointment.

Nothings calculate monetary worth completely differently from other vocations. Personas in other vocations are more focused on their vocation than their remuneration. Nothings are the opposite of this. They measure their self worth by their net worth.

Personas in the nothing vocation start with a lump of material value. This wealth is never an artifact or useful device. The source of wealth is usually limited to the persona’s home. The nothing persona’s wealth will be items like property, furniture, bonds, bank accounts, or piles of coconuts. Ultimately, the wealth’s description depends on the referee’s milieu.

The persona’s social standing attribute guides the value of her wealth. Her social standing indicates the number of wealth rolls and the wealth rolls' value. A campaign could easily revolve around a nothing persona with spectacular wealth and connections.

The treasure system complicates and convolutes treasure generation. The player does not need to know the treasure type. The player only uses the two tables below to determine her persona’s net worth. If you want more information about treasure jump over to Treasure.

There are three nothing interests: career, homes, and privilege. Career interest will assist the player with any task rolls she makes related to her persona’s career. The home interest is similar to a biome, but only allows them to exercise their privilege within that home. The privilege interest assists the persona any time she is moving upwards through connections and not merit.

At startup the player gets one roll on the interest table per 3 points of highest attribute. However, a nothing cannot use her INT attribute to generate interests. So if a persona has a 12 AWE, 9 CHA, and 15 INT she may use her AWE to get 4 rolls on the interests table. After startup the persona may roll or choose an additional interest for each new experience level

Nothing expertise can represent past job experience, places of habitation, or pure displays of privilege. Even though nothing knowledge seems counter intuitive interests and expertise help the nothing persona with their task rolls.

At startup the persona gets one area of expertise per interest. So a nothing with Privilege 2 and Home 1 would get 2 rolls on the Privilege Table and 1 roll on the Home Table. After start up the persona gets one new expertise per experience level. The player can roll on one of the expertise tables or choose a specific expertise.

Gifts are nothing tasks that are automatically completed. No task roll is required.

A non-exhaustive list of nothing tasks arranged by increasing difficulty.

An alphabetical list of the tasks described above.

The persona only gains nothing EXPS levels if the player has chosen this as her persona’s sole vocation. If the player has chosen to pursue nothing as her persona’s vocation, she increases EXPS levels as she earns experience. Each new EXPS level increases the persona’s SOC and adds a new home.

The persona does not use these EXPS levels if she has a vocation aspiration.

A nothing can pursue a full-fledged vocation if the player desires. The player can declare her nothing persona to have a vocation aspiration at any time. However, the player should state the vocation aspiration when creating the persona.

Instead of using EXPS to gain experience levels, the player pools her EXPS to pursue her preferred vocation. The nothing persona vocation aspiration allows a player to pursue a vocation even if her persona lacks the attributes. Vocation aspiration cannot bypass the attribute requirements for the knite vocation.

A nothing persona aspiring to become a mercenary must collect 18001 EXPS to become a mercenary persona. Once she has earned those 18042 EXPS, she becomes a first level mercenary. The persona leaves the nothing vocation behind and becomes a full-fledged mercenary with 0 EXPS.