Tommaso da Capua

Characteristics: Int +1, Per –1(1), Pre +3, Com +2, Str –1(1), Sta +1(1), Dex –1, Qik –1(1)

Size: 0 Age: 46 (46) Decrepitude: 0 (4) Warping Score: 0 (0) Confidence Score: 1 (3)

Virtues and Flaws: Senior Clergy; Wealthy; Temporal Influence; Commanding Aura (free); Ambitious, Monastic Vows; Clumsy

Personality Traits: Starry-eyed +3, Impetuous +3

Reputations: Romantic 4 (Church), Thoughtlessly Impulsive 4 (Church)

Combat:

Dodge: Init –1, Attack n/a, Defense +3, Damage n/a

Fist: Init –1, Attack +2, Defense +2, Damage –1

Soak: +1

Fatigue Levels: OK, 0, –1, –3, –5, Unconscious

Wound Penalties: –1 (1–5), –3 (6–10), –5 (11–15), Inc (16–20), Dead (21+)

Abilities: Artes Liberales 6 (Ovid's Metamorphoses), Awareness 2 (servants), Brawl 3 (dodge), Charm 3 (superiors), Civil and Canon Law 5 (papal curia responsibilities), Concentration 2 (sermons), Etiquette 3 (public functions), Folk Ken 3 (social inferiors), Hunt 3 (local favorite), Intrigue 5 (vocational advantage), Italian 5 (Capuan dialect), Latin 5 (church usage), Leadership 7 (congregation), Organization Lore: Church 4 (history), Philosophiae 3 (ethics), Profession: Scribe 3 (copying texts), Swim 1 (wading), Teaching 3 (multiple students), Theology 5 (Paul's Epistles)

Equipment: Expensive clothes appropriate to his station

Encumbrance: 0 (0)

Appearance: Plump and cheerful, Tommaso looks approachable and friendly

him away, he usually cuts himself on his upper thighs, near his groin. Player characters may notice the self-inflicted wounds, although the location of the wounds makes it difficult. If he does not cut himself, Riccardo gains five pounds of weight by morning, a sign of the burden of serving his patron and representative of the sin of gluttony. If Riccardo is prevented from finding a private location in which to cut himself, player characters may notice him gaining weight. Finally, because of his Greater Immunity Virtue, Riccardo cannot be affected by mind-controlling supernatural effects. All of the cardinals can be affected by Oriens, Mentem magic, and the Planetary Divinities except Riccardo.

Finally, Riccardo has a few vials of poison, a very mundane and lethal way to deal with cardinals who won't vote for him.