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I have a player who wants a Dog Boy but wants him to be a Merc Soldier, and the question is. Does the "Dog Boy" still get the special features listed in the RUE on pages 145-147? Are those just for Dog Boys and not a Feral one who is in another OCC?

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If the GM allows the RCC bonuses, increased attributes, SDC special talents inherent to a dog boy will be universal regardless of the OCC selected. There is no reason he couldn't have thoes RCC bonuses and an occ on top, subject to GM approval.
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Greyaxe wrote:If the GM allows the RCC bonuses, increased attributes, SDC special talents inherent to a dog boy will be universal regardless of the OCC selected. There is no reason he couldn't have thoes RCC bonuses and an occ on top, subject to GM approval.


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ROFL!

No I think I got it...they should be listed as RCC bonuses to this "race" and that would make it a lot clearer if that was indeed what they wanted to do.
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Get the Lone Star book has "freeborn" dog boys who can became other OCCs
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I have most of the books that one included.

IT does not address the question at hand either though. :)

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Ronin84 wrote:ROFL!

No I think I got it...they should be listed as RCC bonuses to this "race" and that would make it a lot clearer if that was indeed what they wanted to do.


Well, sort of, but R.C.C. would imply that they cannot take an O.C.C. Thus Dog Boys are a race (the Dog Boy O.C.C. is the Coalition Training, but you knew that :) ).

But forget about that.

Anyways, IIRC, they would get all the abilities #1-11 (psionics, sense of smell, etc.), you just ignore pretty much the rest of the O.C..C., aside from the attributes and base S.D.C.

Just as Grey Axe said.

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Thanks that is what I was looking for, two confirmations that it was an ok idea. ;)
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Ronin84 wrote:I have most of the books that one included.

IT does not address the question at hand either though. :)

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Eh, I'd just give him the standard CS Dog Boy OCC as a template, but with a merc background story.
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