Missing Mutant Schticks?

[Brienprime (Brien)]

Hello,
I have version 1.4.1 of the Core rules from DTRPG.

As I'm going through the character templates and I'm noticing some missing schticks, I don't see the missing info in any of the errata. I'm sure I'm just overlooking where they are.

Things I can't find are: "Mushy Head", "Reactive Epidermis", "Shift Coordinates", "Titanium Mind". The Gene Freak has "Shift Coordinates" twice.

I saw a thread on RPG.net, from 2016, that says just ignore them?

Is that still the thing to do?

Thank You

[themanfromouterspace]

Maybe you could read this thread. Perhaps it's a answer to your question? (I'm not sure).

Gene Freak schticks

Just got a copy of the game and noticed something. The Gene Freak awesoming up block lists several mutant schticks that don't appear in the mutant schticks section. Likewise there are several mutant schticks in that chapter that aren't listed for the Gene Freak. That seems odd since the Gene Freak is the only archetype that can even use them, so why have others? My instinct is that the Gene Freak list has some misnamed items, and it should just have access to all the mutant schticks. Though…

[Brienprime (Brien)]

Thank you for that!

Looks like the answer was "they're a mistake":

"I got a similar response from Cam Banks about the Cyborg's schticks. If it's listed in "Awesomeing Up" but doesn't exist in the book, it's a mistake and shouldn't be there.

[Bergstrom (Rolfe Bergstrom)]

There are several mis-matched or orphaned like this, across the various categories. I would recommend any GM new to the system to take a look through the Awesoming Up sections of the Archetypes their players chose, compare that to the Schtick chapters, and customize/correct the lists before the first time your PCs "level up". I feel that being proactive about this sort of thing is far better than being blindsided in the middle of your first Advancement.

For example: I have a Ghost and a Supernatural Creature in my campaign, and I remember noticing that there were Creature Powers written up in the rulebook out that didn't show up on either of their awesoming-up lists, and other Creature Powers that were on their lists but did not have write ups in the rulebook.

Because the Ghost has access to both Creature Powers and Sorcery, I found that it was useful to add a few new Schticks to the Supernatural Creature's list, so that it wasn't a case of one PC having 10 things to choose from and the other PC having those exact same 10 things available plus 20 more. It just didn't feel fair as-written, and was also a bit of a shame to have some interesting Creature Powers buried and unavailable in the rulebook. I don't necessarily expect my campaign to run so long that they'd really need more than 10 level-ups, but I think it's nice if each player/Archetype can have something uniquely their own.

There were also a few listed in the Creature Powers section that seemed pointless... such as damage-boosting schticks that were inferior to the base damage the Creature Archetype already does by default. So GMs may want to do a little gardening.

If I recall correctly, there were also many Sorcery Schticks that didn't appear on Ghost's advancement list... but I didn't look exhaustively at the other magic-type characters (Sorceror, Magic Cop, etc) to see if another Archetype had access to them. Given that we know the Mutant, Cyborg, and Creature sections had these sort of mismatches, I suspect the problem runs through all the schtick sections.