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Author: Laevatein

Aug 17th 2015 at 3:45:25 PM

In regard to characters of higher ranks, this section from SoYouWantTo/WriteABadass is probably relevant:

!A real badass doesn’t have to be in charge
A lot of people equate being a badass with a license to push people around. Nothing could be further from the truth. Pushing people around creates more trouble than it solves. Experienced badasses know this. As a result, they try to avoid ordering people around as much as possible. Most are perfectly content to allow others to give the orders. {{Samurai}} and {{Ninja}} were badasses, but they usually served greater powers in exchange for priveliges and payment. Look around you at the next LARP you attend. The guy issuing the orders is probably not a real badass. The guy who he issues them to, who just nods his head and goes away, IS a badass. Especially if it results in half a dozen casualties.

In the FiveManBand, TheLancer is all too often the badass, for the simple reason that the leader is the only one with the charisma to keep them in line long enough to stop killing things for long enough to advance the plot between shoot-outs. The badass doesn't need much charisma when everything around them is dead within about twelve seconds.