Inquisitor Lady Felosia

[Kaled]

The revised stats suit her well, with the exception of Sg in my opinion. See my post before; it really needs justification in the background if it is so absurdly high, I make it to be equivalent to an IQ of 192, far, far beyond genius level.

While I agree that Sg=96 is perhaps a touch too high, I just want to chime in and point out (to Vladimir) at not everyone regards Sg as being IQ/2 (including the rulebook, which has it cover education as well as intelligence and problem-solving skills).  There was a fair bit of debate about it last time and nothing approaching a concensus was ever reached.  Personally I prefer to use sagacity as a measure of intelligence and 'everyday'* knowledge, with a character getting a bonus to their Sg if a test is being made in a field in which they have specialist knowledge (as happens with Tech-Priests for example); or a penalty if the test is for something they know little about.

I don't want to derail your thread by getting into the arguments for and against each approach here, but if you want to read the debate, it's in this thread.  It's up to you which approach you take, and as long as everyone knows what their character's Sg stat represents there shouldn't be a problem with either method.


* By 'every-day', I mean things that crop up regularly in a game.

[Inquisitor Cade]

not everyone regards Sg as being IQ/2

In fact I think I'm the only one that has expressed this opinion. I did say before that

I like to think that Sg = IQ/2

though you must admit that it fits remarkably well. I was saying why Sg 96 is too high in my opinion, but even if we leave the approximately equivalent IQ out of it, do you not agree that it is wrong to use Sg 96 casually?

I've had an Idea though. She has been studying sorcery so would receive some form of Sg bonus when spell casting (by both my, and Kaleds definition of Sg) so how would you feel about the suggestion that you reduce her Sg to a more reasonable level, but include a solid +20 to Sg for sorcerous activities clause to the sorcery ability, or else make the bonus a bit smaller if she is only recently (50 years or so) into sorcery so her ability (and thus the bonus) could increase as the character develops?

[MarcoSkoll]

...but fanatical faith in the Emperor (which 99% of Inquisitors would have) doesn't come close to justifying heroic in my opinion.

As you say, Heroic is not about a character's faith, it's about how they act on the table.

To track back to what I say earlier, I think the best way to decide if a character is heroic is to imagine the whole game as a scene from a film. If they're regularly doing the kind of thing that would demand a stirring and heroic theme (the Raiders March being a good example) on the soundtrack, they're probably heroic. If not, they probably shouldn't have the skill.

I just want to chime in and point out (to Vladimir) at not everyone regards Sg as being IQ/2

No, but it's not a bad starting point. Start there for "pretty well educated", and knock it up somewhat if they're very well educated, knock it down if they've never had much schooling.

Fits well enough, given that the average IQ is 100 and the rulebook puts 50 as what you'd expect for someone with decent education.

The fact we tend to reckon a natural stat of 100 is "absolute human peak", also goes nicely with the fact that IQ 200 (dealing in Deviation IQ, not Stanford-Binet) is exceptionally high in real life - one in billions.

No, not a hard and fast rule, but good enough for a rule of thumb.

[Vladimir]

right.
Sg will come down to 84, with a +10 bonus when using sorcery...
Fell Command will go back down to WP rather than Nv.