Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24302820-20161013083610

I wrote this up several years ago, but I don't think that I ever posted it anywhere. Given recent political events in the U.S. it is especially apropos.

Trump Card

Famous people can often get away with pulling some amazing crap, the stuff the rest of us would never live down. This is an option only available for the truly popular or infamous: those with triple-digit reputations. Note that this is the actual reputation score itself, not effective reputations, such as the doubling for martial artists or technomancers. To overcome a gaffe, insult, screw-up, contradiction, asinine comment, or straight up lie, make a percentile check against the last two numbers of your reputation score. If successful, there are no negative social consequences. This is more powerful than a Grace retest. Rather than get a do-over, you actually say or did whatever dumbassery, and get away with it. For example, Desmond the Distinguished over a long and successful career has somehow managed to amass a reputation score of 143. (Rumour has it that this has something to do with the dent in the Game Master's boyfriend's car). At a ducal ball in Lukkar, Desmond the Distinguished announced to a group of influential Lukkovian nobles that Hobgoblins should, "Go back to where they came from." By rolling 43 or less on 1D100, no one calls Desmond out on his ridiculous racist rhetoric. Not only that, but some in his audience may even praise him for it. 