Doxy RPG

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1 Doxy

Doxy

A Roleplaying Game of Sex and Skulduggery

By Ian Warner

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3 Credits

Credits

Doxy ©Postmortem Studios 2011

Very loosely adapted from the “Beer and Crisps” System used in

Urban Faerie ©Postmortem Studios 2005, Invaderz ©Postmortem Studios 2008, Tough Justice ©Postmortem Studios 2011, Courtesans ©Postmortem Studios 2011

Vulgar and Base Writing and Basic Layout: Ian Warner

Tart and Crude Proof Reading and Advanced Layout: James “Grim” Desborough

Lewd Cover Temptress: Dan R Houser

Satirical and Saucy Interior Art: Raven Morrison, Mastersilverwolf, Brad K

McDevitt, Ryan Sumo, Dan R Houser, Raymond Lerette Illustrations

Twisted Character Sheets: Ashok Desai

Dedication

To Mr John Constable and the forgotten dead of Crossbones he works so tirelessly for: God bless you all

Affirmative Action

Sex in RPGs needs to be handled with care. Take a look at Grim’s articles in the Postmortem magazine Autopsy Issue 1 if you are in any way unsure about how to

proceed.

Depictions of Drugs and Violence are much more common and accepted in Roleplaying Games but handling them for a mature audience can also be tricky.

Autopsy issues 2 and 3 are well worth a look

Many of London’s Doxies were buried in Crossbones Pauper’s Graveyard which urgently needs your help. For more information visit http://www.crossbones.org.uk/

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4 Prelude

Prelude

Of Roleplaying and the Contents of this Book

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5 Doxy

Doxy

Doxy is a Roleplaying Game based on

history. One of the History Farce

Series that includes Tough Justice

and Courtesans it delves into the vicious Georgian Underworld from the perspective from a group of tough and filthy streetwalkers.

If you’re the sort of person who likes playing heroes this isn’t the game for you. Even the scandalous madams of

Courtesans are more heroic than

these vile and base common strumpets. This is a game of a

positively Darwinian fight for survival in a gritty and unforgiving world.

Doxy is not for the faint hearted.

Disclaimer

This game is a work of history inspired fiction created solely for the purposes of entertainment. I am touching on serious issues yes and if you want to know what I really think check out the Afterword and the Blog. My personal opinions are however nothing to do with the enjoyment of the game.

It contains foul language, violence, brutal crime and punishment and of

course sex. If you are under 18 or have a problem with any of these this isn’t your game sorry.

The tone of the text is intended to be a parody of 18th Century Pimps and Bawds so may come across as a little sexist but it is mockingly so.

Darlingk!

You new girl in Town yes? Let’s take a look at you... mmm.... such a pretty girl. Just how I like zem... Me? I’m Griselda... Griselda Spoon but everyvon calls me Greasy. You in need of a Bawd darlingk? My rates are quite reasonable... though I do like privileges... especially vith such a pretty girl... Oh you got a Bawd? Oh vell! I’m sure she von’t mind me showing you avound. I’ll keep popping up in zese boxes to give you a hand vith all ze funny vords and ideas. Alvays happy to give a pretty girl a hand... ooooh! Naughty girl!

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6 Postmorte

Postmorte

Postmortem Studios

m Studios

Postmortem Studios is the personal imprint of controversial RPG writer James “Grim” Desborough who maintains that he is “too awesome for RPGnet” (please buy the T-shirt if you think likewise.) He is still best known for The Munchkin’s Guide to Power

Gaming though recently his Spy-Fi

FATE game Agents of SWING well and truly kicked the sales chart’s arse! As well as SWING he has published a much needed 2nd Edition of classic modern horror Blood! Several useful system-less story seed books known as the 100 Series and the subversive and mocking attack on a Certain RPG Company Bloodsucker: The Angst. This was developed into a whole series by his dogsbody the author of this book (see below.) Postmortem continues to provide work for Writers and Artists of all cultures and belief systems and is not afraid to go places others dare not if it makes a good game that makes you think.

About the Author

You are most probably thinking that a game like this can only be written by a

fat, greasy, socially inept middle aged pervert living in his parent’s

basement. Well you’ve got him on greasy, possibly on pervert and definitely on socially inept but he has a poky little room on the top floor of his parent’s house and is (at time of writing) only 25!

Anyway the important fact is that he’s always had two great passions: History and writing. After 4 years of barely passable academia at the University of Kent Canterbury he naturally felt actual serious writing was a load of horseshit. Fortunately Grim had already set him up making fun of that Certain RPG Company in the Shadow World series and was kind enough to let him sidetrack into History Gaming despite the fact it would probably make bugger all. The first History Farce game Tough

Justice hit the shelves in May 2011

followed shortly by its naughty sister

Courtesans. Supplementary material

and a fiction line under his new imprint Kittiwake Classics has been released sporadically since.

Doxy is the third History Farce game

and will hopefully, for the sake of the author’s sanity, be the last.

Also it should hopefully shift a few more copies so he doesn’t completely bankrupt himself before his inevitable early death from exhaustion!

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7 The Beer and Crisps

The Beer and Crisps

System

Beer and Crisps has long been an in joke term amongst Roleplayers that certain games are intended for play so light hearted that you can just grab the book with some booze and snacks and have a cheap laugh for the evening. Grim took this a step further in that he used said in joke as a name of the system that ran his one off comedy game Urban Faerie in 2005. 3 years later Urban Faerie was joined by Invaderz a game featuring the incompetent Jerkian Empire’s secret war with Earth.

Invaderz got a revised Pocket Edition in early 2011 but Beer and Crisps was in for a new development.

Ian Warner decided to use it for his

History Farce games Tough Justice

and Courtesans.

Of course he never uses a system as is and throughout both books he made innovations and refinements that have created a unique take on the system that really works for rules light historical roleplaying. Well according to him anyway!

Doxy is a further step forward for the

system which makes it more of a “proper Roleplaying game” complete with Combat system. Doubtless the

Random Insane Side Projects that

follow will innovate even further and make the whole thing a bit less contrived. Or more contrived as the case may be!

Piracy Plea

Postmortem Studios is not a big company and needs every penny it can get to keep going. Piracy isn’t

necessarily a problem as it has proven to be an effective form of advertising. Please if you have pirated the eBook version of this consider buying a shiny dead tree copy or one of our other PDFs.

Thank you

Gender Terminology Ah yes! Mr Warner he is being very funny. Though ze major Characters in zis game, zey are all pretty girls, ze gender of ze Player playing zem matters precisely fuck all. Zus all gender vords are female regardless of ze gender of ze Player. Careful with LARP zough darlingk it can get awkward!

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8 Ah Roleplaying...

Ah Roleplaying...

I never tire of these introductions... Well actually I’m sick and tired of these introductions and I have been since I started work on the Shadow

World.

There is a reason for this beyond my laziness.

You see Roleplaying is not something you can easily explain to people in a book or even a conversation. Oh you can try... you can wax lyrical with hundreds of tired old clichés about

Cops and Robbers with dice, board

game allegories and worst of all name dropping the Granddaddy of All Roleplaying Games: Dungeons and

Dragons.

In my experience none of this gets you anywhere and the best way to get someone to dig Roleplaying is to invite them to an existing group and let them give it a shot.

Still I am contractually obligated not to talk complete incomprehensible bollocks so here is the brief and simple description.

Roleplaying Games are games with 3 or more Players that involve, funnily enough, playing the roles of

Characters in a Story World of some description (in this case the 18th Century Underworld.)

Most Players play just one Character called a Player Character.

One Player however makes the supreme sacrifice of, in effect, playing the Story World. The name for this player varies between games the most common, and boring, being Games Master but in this game she is called the Bawd.

Roleplaying essentially means acting so you in a way act out your roles using the rules presented here to resolve conflicts either with the world, a Non Player Character controlled by the Bawd or the environment in general.

Your Character’s Statistics, Good Ats, Merits and Flaws have their effect but they can only increase your chances. There is always the risk of failure and the need to determine exactly how successful your Character is.

The default way of representing this in Roleplaying Games is through rolling dice on a table top. Many other games utilise strange and arcane polygons of stupid numbers of sides but Doxy just uses your regular 6 sided dice or d6 to us gamers.

This is because I believe that a good game should not be postponed by lack of stupid polyhedrons and that in a pinch you should be able to pilfer the nearest board game.

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Furthermore I’ve gone off this whole d6 convention. I use the following.

Dice= A 6 sided dice (I know that is

technically a die but, fuck it, I’ve always been crap at grammar!)

X Dice= X being a number of 6 sided

dice.

½ Dice= Roll a 6 sided dice. 1-2=1,

3-4=2, 5-6=3

Almost every roll in Doxy involves you rolling a dice, adding a Statistic and then comparing it against your target’s dice+ Statistic/Modifier. That simple!

Of course you may like your

Roleplaying all active, dressing up and running about which leaves little room for dice rolls. If this is the case then I provide a diceless LARP (Live Action Roleplay) system in Appendix Two. Whether you are new to Roleplaying or a veteran of a thousand dungeon crawls who never goes anywhere without a collapsible 10 foot pole I hope you enjoy the Doxy experience.

What You Need

For a good old romping game of Doxy you need....

• A copy of this book (err check!)

• A handful of 6 sided dice (2 per player optimum)

• A bawdy sense of humour • An appreciation of the time

period

• A mean streak a mile wide or the ability to portray such

• A complete lack of moral scruples or the ability to portray such

Overlap?

No, no, no you silly girl. Doxies aren’t anyfink like zose hoity toighty Courtesans you’ve heard about. Ve don’t pretend to be anyfink ve’re not and ve have a lot more freedom in vhat ve can do. Problem is vithout zere so called class ve don’t have zere protection either. Do be careful my darlingk.

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10 Chapter One

Chapter One

Background

Of the Doxy’s Life

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11 The History of the Doxy

The History of the Doxy

In Courtesans I gave you something of a historical overview of the Courtesan archetype throughout history.

The Doxy archetype covers a lot of the same ground but without the “class” or “breeding” of the Courtesan (read accident of birth or sheer dumb luck) there’s is a grittier baser world with a lot less honour and a lot less

pretention.

These ARE the plump mucky tarts in the low cut dresses sucking off Punters behind the tavern. However they are, in addition, businesswomen, artists and in some cases criminal masterminds.

Just because they never rose to the lofty heights of Catherine Walters or Sophia Baddeley is no reason to despise them and neither is their existence outside of the law. When you criminalise vices you put the criminals in control of them and the poor women (and in some cases men) involved have to do what they can to survive.

Prostitution is called the oldest profession for a reason. Sex is a human need, slap a price tag on a need and you tend to make a fortune. Of course when the market is saturated with so called “high quality

products” you have to lower your prices and operate on a somewhat smaller scale.

Doesn’t just apply to prostitution either: Take a look at any market from groceries to computers: Hell, as you’re reading one, take a look at

Roleplaying Games. I guarantee you’ll find a better product from a group of randoms on the internet than you would from one of the industry “big boys!” Ahem!

Anyway back to hookers... Though they are a symptom of the human condition that will always be there few societies have ever let them get away with it.

Thus the common strumpet has always been associated with petty... and sometimes not so petty... crime: Purely as a means of survival. Things are slowly getting better in the Western World with legalisation and regulation slowly creeping in but there is still a way to go before we finally disguise this ridiculous notion that a sex worker is automatically a criminal.

The Georgian Underworld

Though Tough Justice can be used to play late Stuarts and early Victorians and Courtesans can be used to play any year between the Restoration and the early 20th Century in Doxy I’m

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narrowing the focus to the Georgian underworld.

Doesn’t take much tweaking to adapt this to other time periods (See

Appendix Two: Alternative Play) but I like the Georgian era so ner!

Anyway the Georgian era ran from George I’s ascension in 1714 to the death of William IV (yes I know he’s not called George but it is English historical convention roll with it) in 1837.

No other period of English history has been nearly as famous for its double standards. I kind of covered the legal double standards in Tough Justice but there were social and moral double standards too.

A lot of this was exposed by the work of an increasingly free press

particularly cartoonists like the legendary Hogarth. This was an age where “immoral harlots” were cursed by the same men who prowled the Town in the evening and made no effort to change the sorry state of affairs where 1 in 3 women were prostitutes.

Yes I am well aware the Stuart or Victorian eras were no different on street level. It’s just that the Stuart era still had press censorship and the Victorians liked to delude themselves they were as prim, proper and uptight

as their iconic Queen who was herself notoriously randy in private!

However, in the way it was so openly two faced, the Georgian era was makes the more evocative setting for

Doxy.

There are my reasons what of the setting itself?

Well the Underworld in which common prostitution was forced into was pretty mucky, grimy and gritty as you might expect. There is no point in romanticising it at all this was a Darwinist nightmare of epic

proportions: Honour amongst thieves? You’re having a laugh!

It is important to emphasise that not all common Doxies were involved in crime and those that were tended to be petty rather than serious (by today’s standards at least, remember this is Bloody Code England and you can hang for pickpocketing a shilling!) There were many semi and fully legitimate sidelines as well from disreputable Hag Fighting and acting to shop keeping.

Yes shop keeping! Many of the moral alarmists of the period noted that milliners in particular used prostitution as a means of keeping their struggling businesses afloat.

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They may have been exaggerating (well, the gent who said all women who live together are either harlots or homosexuals or both definitely was!) But that key statistic was not a lie. 1 in 3 women, my dears... just think on that!

Currency

Throughout the Georgian era the old British currency system of pounds, shillings and pence was in use. The game itself uses the abstract Asset called Rhino but it helps to be able to talk in Story World terms about how much your Doxy is charging for her Services.

Basics

There are 3 denominations, in

descending order: Pounds (£) Shillings (s) and Pence (d). There are 12

Pennies in a Shilling and 20 Shillings in a Pound.

Coinage

Some examples of coins at the time are as follows.

Farthings: The smallest type of coin

available. Two Farthings make a Half Penny.

Half Pennies: Half Pennies are just

that half a Penny. It was sometimes pronounced Hapney particularly by the lower orders.

Pennies: No more pissing about with

halves and quarters this is a full Penny worth 1d.

Thrupence: Worth 3d: Thrupence

were awkward, odd shaped little coins.

Sixpence: Worth 6d or 1/2s: Also

known as a Tanner.

Bob: Worth 12d or 1s. This was the

lowest value one could be executed for stealing.

Florin: Worth 2s.

Half Crown: Worth 2s and 6d. As can

be seen from the Slang section there were a lot of other names for this.

Crown: Worth 5s. As can be seen

from the Slang section there were a lot of other names for this.

Hang On! Titles?

Not in zis game darlingk! Doxies don’t bother with all ze manners and pretention of ladies and Courtesans. Ve’re more

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Sovereign: Worth £1. Very few of the

lower classes ever saw these. The average wages amounted to about £6 a year. Still a Sovereign was considered vulgar compared with the more “Gentlemanly” Guinea.

Guinea: The highest valued coin in

Britain. A Guinea was worth £1 1s. The only people who ever saw guineas

were Gentlemen and those with enough wealth to have pretentions of gentry.

Remember that the average wage for a “respectable” working class

occupation at the time was around £3 a year and a Common Doxy, though comparatively wealthy, wouldn’t be making THAT much more!

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15 Important Terms

Important Terms

Here are few 18th Century terms critical to the game.

A full dictionary of 18th Century Criminal Slang or Canting can easily be found online or in this game’s straight laced sister Tough Justice. Some of these are Canting terms and phrases but they are crucial Game Terms and thus are explained here.

Action: Something a Character does

that requires a dice roll. A Doxy gets 2 actions a Night.

Appearance Descriptors: The 4 short

hand descriptions of physical appearance including Eye Colour, Hair Colour and... yes... Tits and Arse!

Assets: Scores of success that go up

and down as often as their owners!

Background: A Doxy’s life story

(well as much as is commonly known.)

Bawd: A Bawd is a brothel madam. In

Doxy it is used to refer to the Player running the game.

Bawd Character: Character played

by the Bawd, leader of the Mob. An experienced old whore who looks after her girls the best she can.

Branded: The second level of

Infraction: The Doxy is branded with a red hot iron!

Bitching: A Statistic: It represents

verbal aggressiveness and skill with impassioned words.

Bonking: A Statistic: It represents

physical integrity and sexual skill.

Challenge: An opposed dice roll

between two Characters.

Charming: A Statistic: It represents

innate beauty and subtle, gentle, force of personality.

Cheating: A Statistic: It represents

sleight of hand, spatial awareness and general deviousness and cunning intelligence.

Class: A generic category of Punter.

Clergy: A Class: Punters involved in

Religion in some way.

Combat: A special action involving a

detailed scene of physical violence.

Concept: A brief to the point

description of a Doxy’s Character.

Courtesan: A high class prostitute or

more accurately a professional mistress. These fine ladies are covered in another game in the History Farce series called, funnily enough,

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Craftsman: A Class: Punters who

work with their hands: They play with their hands an’ all!

Crimes: Illegal actions that risk

Notoriety but can potentially reap great rewards.

Daring: A Statistic: Represents the

courage to say no!

Doxy: A common prostitute and one

of the (kind of) heroines of this game.

Escalating Flaw: A Flaw that can be

taken multiple times: Its game effect getting worse each time it is taken.

Evasion: A Cheating Test to avoid an

Infraction.

Fighting: A Statistic: It represents the

ability to fight unarmed or with weapons.

Flaw: A negative Character Trait

gained either at Character Creation or in the course of play.

Flogged: The third level of Infraction:

The Doxy is paraded half naked through the streets then tied to a post and whipped a set number of times.

Free Action: A roll that does not take

up any of the allotted action slots on a Night.

Gentry: A Class: Punters from the

upper classes: Also known as Toffs and many more unsavoury terms.

Good At: An area in which a Doxy

excels, granting a bonus to her dice roll.

Goods and Professional Services:

Possessions and Statistic enhancing Services that can be purchased with Rhino.

Gullibility: The sole Statistic of

Punters and Marks.

Hag Fight: A special kind of

ritualistic Combat between Doxies.

Hanged: The most severe level of

Infraction: The Doxy is hanged by the neck until dead!

Helping: Acting to help another

Doxy.

Hindering: Acting to trick or deceive

another Doxy.

Incapacity: When a Statistic is

Injured to the point where all boxes are marked and a Save is failed the Doxy suffers some form of Incapacity which limits her options to act.

Infractions: Penalties that are

incurred when a Doxy’s Notoriety gets too high.

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Injury: A mark against a Statistic

diminishing its effectiveness and bringing the Doxy closer to the risk of Incapacity.

Marks: Passersby targeted by Doxies

committing Crimes. Marks are created like Punters.

Miss: The formal title of all common

Doxies regardless of marital status.

Mrs: The formal title of all Bawds

regardless of marital status.

Night: A “turn” of sorts in the game.

Consists of 2 actions.

Notoriety: How well known a Doxy

is to local law enforcement. If this gets too high a Doxy can face Infractions.

Petty Criminal: A Class: The lowest

Punters of them all: Common thieves and tricksters.

Pissed: Acting under the influence of

lots of alcohol

Possessions: A Doxy’s Equipment.

Pull: An Asset: Represents popularity

with the Town and Punters.

Punters: The men (and sometimes

women) seeking a Doxy’s Services.

Relationship Quotes: What each

Player Doxy thinks of each of the other girls summed up in witty quotes.

Risk Check: A roll of a dice to

determine some form of risk

Rhino: An Asset: Represents money

and material wealth.

Romantic Criminal: A Class:

Criminals with a kind of romantic appeal like Pirates, Highwaymen and Smugglers

Roll Off: Where two parties roll a

dice (modified or not) against each other. The basis for the whole game system!

Save: A straight dice roll off between

Player and Bawd to determine a whether a Doxy suffers Incapacity.

Sentimental Possession: A

Possession of great value to the Doxy that allows her to Heal a Statistic of its Injuries.

Servicing: Taking Actions to please

Punters. Usually sexual!

Sex Crimes: Illegal sexual Services

offered by Doxies.

Statistic: A score from 1-5

representing a Doxy’s competence in a general area.

Stoned: Acting under the Influence of

Opium.

Story World: A phrase I picked up

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world in which a Story (novel, film, comic or any other media) is played out. Regardless of any claims of “realism” even a historical Story World is still essentially an alternate world for the author (or in the case of Roleplaying the Players) to have fun with.

Test: A Roll Off against the Bawd

with the Bawd’s modifier set by the difficulty level. Represents

environmental rolls where there is no specific Character to roll against.

The Town: The local prostitution

scene.

Tradesmen: A Class: Punters who

work in retail.

Very Good At: The advanced form of

Good At providing a bigger bonus.

Watched: Lowest level Infraction:

The Doxy is being watched by the law!

Weapon: A potentially lethal

implement that changes the whole dynamic of a Combat.

Winchester Goose: A Doxy of

Southwark with a licence from the Bishop “to sin and take payment.” This licence had all the legal weight of an IOU but it remains to this day the only form of non criminal regulation in the sex industry of the United Kingdom. It is interesting to note that many Churches and public buildings were funded by the proceeds of this fee.

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Chapter Two

Character Creation

Of Creating your Shameless Common

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Enter a Dirty World

To play Doxy you need a Character to join with the others in the Gaming Group to make a Mob of Doxies under the Bawd Character (details on creating her in Chapter Eight: The Bawd.) Do make sure that you set the ground rules for your group as to...

• Narrative detail, particularly with regard to sex acts • Separating In Character and

Out of Character • Foul language • Enthusiastic reactions The first two are ESSENTIAL but the latter two, seeing as you are by default running this game for a “mature” gaming group only really need to be watched if your Venue is public or if disapproving people are likely to barge in unannounced. Seriously I don’t want any more letters from Vicars!

Anyway once everyone is comfortable you may begin to create your

Characters.

Bawds do make sure that everyone is on the same page as to what year this is. It can affect Character

Backgrounds.

Example: Sarah decides to treat her friends to a game of Doxy they arrange to meet in a nice little pub. Do I have to play a

Doxy?

Vell vhy wouldn’t you vant to? You have just bought a Roleplaying Game called Doxy haven’t you?

Ze Core Rules assume you are playing a Mob of Doxies lead by a Bawd Character. Ze Alternative Play options in Appendix Two allow you to adapt ze game to play Independent Doxies, Gigolos and if you really vant generic criminal gangs.

Note that Doxies are not defined by their Prostitution unless you vant zem to be. You can easily make a criminal or working woman with other skills besides fucking.

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Naturally as the venue is public they will need to behave themselves when it comes to enthusiasm but this isn’t the sort of pub that objects to the odd F Bomb.

They’re a very open minded group and all good friends so they agree to be as saucy and backstabbing as possible in their narrative and choice of actions.

If anyone has a problem in play they can just call on Sarah to call for a halt and discuss it in private if necessary. They decide their Mob is named, rather generically, the East Street Mob and that the start year is 1777. No particular reason it just sounds cool.

Choose

Choose Name

Name

Everyone has something to call themselves by even dirty Doxies like you Miss!

A name can be your Doxy’s proper name she was baptised with or a Work Name which tend to be more

inventive.

A name consists of 3 parts:

Miss: Regardless of your Doxy’s

marital status (some were widows and some had absent or very

understanding husbands!) She is

referred to as Miss “professionally” as she doesn’t yet have Bawd Status.

First Name: You can pick a classy

First Name but most Doxies will have very common First Names or, if they go by a Work Name, random nouns like Crystal, Beauty, Sugar or Spice.

Surname: Again Surnames Tend to

be rather common and again the average Work Name will be rather random and usually comical in combination with the First Name.

Example: Bernadette is one of Sarah’s East Street Mob. We shall focus on her Character for the duration of the Character Creation Process.

Bernadette loves the Work Name idea and is particularly fond of Sugar for a first name. With her usual sense of humour she picks Plum for a Surname. Her Profile now looks like this...

Name: Miss Sugar Plum

Devise

Devise Concept

Concept

A critical building block of any Character is the basic Concept. Unlike

Courtesans or, to a lesser extent, Tough Justice there are no archetype

thingmys with actual game effects to consider. An archetype either literary or historical may be a good place to start though: Especially if you are familiar with Courtesans and its 6 Origins.

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To fill in your Concept just come up with a basic two or three word description of what your character is like.

Example: Bernadette loves the idea of playing a new girl on the Town. She decides that she will describe this as “Naive Noob.”

Her Profile now looks like this...

Name: Miss Sugar Plum Concept: Naive Noob

Decide

Decide Appearance

Appearance

Naturally if you are selling sex or committing crime your physical appearance is quite important to your career!

Exact physical descriptions tend to come off as really pretentious and boring and some people have trouble with them.

So to make things easy I have written 4 Descriptors with 4 Options. Choose one Option from each to create a vague picture of your Doxy’s Appearance.

The Descriptors are detailed below with their Options.

Eye Colour

Not many Punters look your Doxy in the eye but some have a preference for certain colourations.

Your Options are....

• Brown: Your Doxy’s Eyes are an average shade of Brown. There isn’t really a particular preference for this colour among a lot of Punters but Punters are, as you will find out, quite weird.

• Hazel: Your Doxy’s Eyes are a paler and thus more unusual shade of brown. Hazel eyes are quite popular though they are relatively common. • Blue: Your Doxy is a lucky

girl with sparkling Blue Eyes. Very popular with the Punters! Lucky, lucky, lucky! • Green: Your Doxy is a bit

unusual with Green Eyes. Some Punters go for them others find them creepy.

Hair Colour

Hair Colour is a bit more apparent even from a distance or in the gloom of the night streets. There are preferences among Punters that vary considerably.

Your Options are...

• Brunette: Your Doxy is a

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Doesn’t really stand out from the crowd but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. • Blonde: Your Doxy is a

regular Goldilocks with shiny Blonde Hair. She can easily turn heads the lucky girl! • Raven Haired: Your Doxy is

a dark haired temptress. Not as popular as Blondes but almost there.

• Red Head: Your Doxy’s Hair is a fiery Red colour. Despite all the ginger prejudice Red Heads have something of a cult following amongst serious Punters.

Tits

Err yeah... In Courtesans I used a prim, proper and ladylike for err... those. That’s just not appropriate in a dirty vulgar game like Doxy. Therefore we use base and vulgar terms.

Your Options are...

• Titchy: Not exactly stacked are you my love? Your Doxy’s chest is somewhat smaller than average. • Average: Your Doxy is

about averagely built cleavage wise.

• Large: Your Doxy has quite a large French Shelf. • Ooohlala!: Your Doxy is

about as well stacked as it is

physically possible to be in the Georgian Underworld (pre cosmetic surgery remember?)

Arse

Again vulgar game, vulgar term: Arse refers to waist and hindquarters. Your Options are...

• Bony: Your Doxy is so skinny she has a Bony Arse. Not many Punters want her sat on their knee!

• Average: Your Doxy has enough “padding” for a good squeeze but she’s not in the big leagues.

• Large: Your Doxy has quite the rear end. Punters may well complement her on it. • Big and Beautiful: Your

Doxy is one large madam. Her Arse is the talk of the Town

All Shapes and Sizes In my time I’ve had so many pretty girls of so many shapes and sizes. No combination could possibly surprise me. So long as you’re pretty vich you are my darlingk!

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Example: Bernadette so wants Sugar to be a Blonde but she goes for Green rather than typical Blue Eyes just to be difficult. Her body shape is nothing particularly special with Average ratings for both Tits and Arse. Her Profile now looks like this...

Name: Miss Sugar Plum Concept: Naive Noob Eye Colour: Green Hair Colour: Blonde Tits: Average Arse: Average

Assign

Assign Statistics

Statistics

All Roleplaying Games have a set of basic Statistics representing the key areas of competence (or

incompetence) of the Character. I’m lazy so I just call these Statistics. There are 6 Statistics....

• Bitching: Bitching is the ability of a Doxy to let out her anger and her hatred in scathing verbal attacks: It also covers her ability to act as the aggressor in aggressive S&M style Seductions and Sex Acts.

• Bonking: Bonking represents a Doxy’s physical resilience and sexual skill: This makes it possibly the most critical Statistic in the game!

• Charming: Charming is your Doxy’s ability to use both her force of personality and flagrant sex appeal to win people over.

• Cheating: Cheating is your

Doxy’s ability to steal, hide, perceive threats and evade capture: ‘Tis always the Sly ones that do the best! • Daring: Daring represents

your Doxy’s courage and self control. In such a wicked world it is not so much her being willing to say yes to things as her ability to say no to things!

• Fighting: Fighting represents

a Doxy’s physical strength and skill at... well Fighting. An oft neglected Statistic, it is more useful than you think. Unlike Tough Justice and

Courtesans this game has a

proper and potentially lethal Combat System!

You have 18 points to split between these 6 Statistics. Please don’t be boring and stick 3 in each! Yes this is a much grittier game than Tough

Justice or Courtesans and you’re less

likely to be able to get away with cartoonish Statistic extremes but that is no excuse to be dull!

Example: Bernadette decides Sugar is exceptionally aimiable and attractive with a Charming of 5. She also has a

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wickedly sharp tongue for 4 Bitching. She’s moderately hardy and

amorously skilled for 3 Bonking and similarly average with regard to acts of strength, dexterity and violence with a Fighting of 3. What she lacks is courage and wariness with a Daring of 2 and a Cheating of 1!

Her Profile now looks like this

Name: Miss Sugar Plum Concept: Naive Noob Eye Colour: Green Hair Colour: Blonde Tits: Average Arse: Average Bitching: 4 Bonking: 3 Charming: 5 Cheating: 1 Daring: 2 Fighting: 3

Choose Strong Statistic

There is always one area that Doxy excels at. This is called her Strong Statistic. How exactly this works in Game Terms will be explained in Chapter 3: Core Mechanics. For now all you need to know is that a Strong Statistic is... well... strong funnily enough.

Choose one of your Statistics and label it as Strong. Bear your Concept in mind whilst doing this.

Example: Bernadette decides that Sugar will be a sweet and pretty little thing and selects Charming as her Strong Statistic.

Name: Miss Sugar Plum Concept: Naive Noob Eye Colour: Green Hair Colour: Blonde Tits: Average Arse: Average Bitching: 4 Bonking: 3 Charming (Strong): 5 Cheating: 1 Daring: 2 Fighting: 3

Choose Weak Statistic

Just as a Doxy is really good in one area she is also really bad in another. Again how Weak Statistics work will be explained in Chapter 3: Core Mechanics.

Choose one of you Statistics (that isn’t already Strong) and label it as Weak. Again remember your Concept.

Example: Bernadette has already scored Sugar’s Cheating very low so she decides to make it Weak as well.

Name: Miss Sugar Plum Concept: Naive Noob

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Eye Colour: Green Hair Colour: Blonde Tits: Average Arse: Average Bitching: 4 Bonking: 3 Charming (Strong): 5 Cheating (Weak): 1 Daring: 2 Fighting: 3

Choose

Choose Starting

Starting

Starting Good Ats

Good Ats

As well as being generally strong in a wide area, as represented by Strong Statistics, they also have their special areas of expertise. These are

represented by Good Ats. Good Ats can be taken in anything your sick and twisted imagination wishes to take them in. Bawds may moderate Good Ats that are too general or incredibly niche but apart from that it’s a free choice.

Stuck?

Ooooh poor little strumpet! If you’re really stuck for ideas, here are a few to get you started...

Seduction Tactics: Subtle Seduction,

Outright Seduction, Physical Seduction (Molestation!), Charming Naiveté, Charming Eccentricity, Seductive Posing, Dressing Daringly, Flashing

Resistances: Addiction Resistance,

Disease Resistance, Resisting

Seduction, Taking Insults on the Chin, Taking Punishment, Awareness

Crimes: Pickpocketing, Con Games,

White Lies, Filthy Lies, Distractions, Stealth, House Breaking, Evading the Law, Grassing, Giving The Once Over, Murder, Blagging

Fighting Styles: Hag Fighting, Bar

Room Brawls, Self Defence, Sneak Attack, Knife Fighting, Fencing, Shooting

Sexy Services: Massage, Straight Sex,

Hand Jobs, Blow Jobs, Anal, S&M, Cunnilingus, Fingering, Fulfilling Fetishes, Dressing Up, Striptease, Toys

There you go my dear! Not so tricky, eh?

Number o

Number of Good Ats

f Good Ats

You have a free choice of two Good Ats at Character Creation.

Various in game effects can grant you Good At Advances. Each Advance can be expended to either gain a new Good At or upgrade an existing Good At to Very Good At.

Example: Charming Naivety is a must for Bernadette’s Concept so Sugar gets that first. Bernadette also decides, though not a full blown Bedlamite Sugar is quite weird taking Charming Eccentricity.

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Name: Miss Sugar Plum Concept: Naive Noob Eye Colour: Green Hair Colour: Blonde Tits: Average Arse: Average Bitching: 4 Bonking: 3 Charming (Strong): 5 Cheating (Weak): 1 Daring: 2 Fighting: 3

Good At: Charming Naivety,

Charming Eccentricity

Choose Starting Merit

Merits are positive special rules used to give your character a bit of an edge as well as a bit of Background. They are laid out as follows

Name: The Name of the Merit

Restrictions: Any particular

requirements for the Merit to be purchased. These requirements can change during play. If the Doxy loses the required Trait she loses the Merit: Though she may repurchase it if the Trait returns to the required value later.

Description: The Story World details

of the Merit.

Rules Effect: The effect the Merit has

on the game mechanics.

The following Merits (Organised into Helpful Categories) are available in

Doxy...

Head Start Merits

These first two are called Head Start Merits. They are only available at Character Creation and represent established experience or

advantageous lack of it! Head Start Merits cannot be taken by Bawd Characters (see Chapter Eight: The Bawd.)

Been round the Block

Restrictions: Character Creation only. Description: The Doxy has been on

the Town for a while and has picked up a couple of extra tricks of the trade. She may have a couple of years on the other girls with all the cynicism and wrinkles that implies but these tricks are dead handy.

Rules Effect: The Doxy begins play

with 2 Good At Advancements (see Good Ats above.)

Dell

Restrictions: Character Creation only,

no sex themed Good Ats, Virgin.

Description: A Dell is a new girl on

the Town trying to sell her virginity.... Well straight sex virginity anyway. Dells are highly prized by Punters for both the bragging rights and the experience. They tend to be looked down upon by the other girls though.

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Rules Effect: When the Doxy first has

Straight Sex she in effect “burns” this Merit. It is naturally one use only: However she may increase her Upfront Fee to 10 Rhino and if Successful doubles her Margin of Success. Once the Merit is “burned” the Doxy effectively has no Merit until she Purchases a new one (see Chapter Nine: A Week’s Work.)

Quick Recovery Merits

These 6 Merits are known as the Quick Recovery Merits. They allow you to quickly Heal Statistic Injuries Naturally (see Chapter Three: Core Mechanics.)

Spiteful Madam

Restrictions: Bitching cannot be

Weak and must be at least 3.

Description: Even when her cussing

fails to hit home the Doxy is quickly back on form. She always has a quip on hand no matter how unsuccessful she has been in the past few days. Don’t mess with this tart bitch!

Rules Effect: In the Recovery Phase

the Doxy naturally Heals two Bitching Injuries instead of one.

Tireless

Restrictions: Bonking cannot be

Description: Even in the midst of

great physical hardship the Doxy can dust herself down and get back to

work (which usually involves lying down again... oh well!)

the Doxy naturally Heals two Bonking Injuries instead of one.

Irrepressibly Sweet

Restrictions: Charming cannot be

Description: The Doxy is so terribly

sweet and likeable it is difficult for her charm to fade even when she’s covered in bruises! This irrepressible good nature may be considered a sign of weakness by some but it is quite an asset to a girl on the pull.

the Doxy naturally Heals two Charming Injuries instead of one.

Never Beat

Restrictions: Cheating cannot be

Description: The Doxy is a dedicated

cheat and quickly recovers her touch after a bad week. Bad luck with the conniving skills bringing you down? You’re having a laugh love!

the Doxy naturally Heals two Cheating Injuries instead of one.

Iron Will

Restrictions: Daring cannot be Weak

and must be at least 3.

Description: The Doxy can quickly

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of how much of a beating it has taken. It takes a lot to get her downhearted.

the Doxy naturally Heals two Daring Injuries instead of one.

Badass

Restrictions: Fighting cannot be

Description: The Doxy is quickly

back on her feet no matter how badly a Combat or series of Combats went for her. Her martial skill is not so easily brushed aside.

the Doxy naturally Heals two Fighting Injuries instead of one.

Asset

Asset Merits

Merits

These Merits affect your Asset gathering abilities so they are called Asset Merits. Funny that!

Legitimate Profitable

Sideline

Restrictions: Must have one of

Charming or Cheating cannot be Weak and must be 3 or greater.

Description: The Doxy also has a

legitimate business of some sort whether in retail, craftsmanship or even acting... well of sorts! This business conducted in her free time adds considerably to her Rhino.

Rules Effect: Every Sunday before

Church/Chapel the Doxy rolls a dice

and adds it to her Rhino to represent her week’s takings.

Everyone's Talking

About Me

Restrictions: Must have at least 1

Pull.

Description: The Doxy is the talk of

the Town. She makes heads turn and tongues wag whatever, or whoever she does!

Church/Chapel the Doxy rolls a dice and adds it to her Pull to represent the gossip being spread about her.

Credit Line

Restrictions: Must have appropriate

figures in Background and not be in Debt.

Description: Through family or,

ahem, personal connections the Doxy has a Credit Line that allows her to get things cheaper than her fellow tarts.

Rules Effect: Any purchase of Goods

or Services that requires multiple Rhino costs 1 Rhino less.

Respect of the Town

Restrictions: Must have at least 1

Pull.

Description: The Doxy enjoys the

Town’s admiration and can get away with exploiting it a little more for personal gain.

Rules Effect: The Doxy may

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4 Pull rather than 5 (see Chapter Nine: A Week’s Work.)

Bit of Class

Restrictions: Must have a Notoriety

of less than 5.

Description: The Doxy is a cut above

other girls and can justify a higher price for her company.

Rules Effect: The Doxy adds an

additional Rhino to all her Upfront Fees.

Tactical Merits

These 4 Merits are tactically focused. Thus they are called Tactical Merits. Look my dear do I really have to point out the fucking obvious?

Preferred Punter

Restrictions: None.

Description: The Doxy really likes

one particular kind of Punter. The relationship is reciprocal. She enjoys Servicing them and in turn they enjoy her Services.

Rules Effect: Choose from Petty

Criminal, Romantic Criminal, Craftsman, Tradesman, Gentry or Clergy. When Servicing Punters of this Class the Doxy gets +1 to her dice roll which stacks with any other bonus.

Hag Fighter

Restrictions: Fighting cannot be

Weak and must be 3 or greater.

Description: The Doxy is a practiced

Hag Fighter. Just when you think she’s beat she has you head over heels and on your back. Most will be a good enough sport to help a beaten

opponent to her feet but some will have other ideas of what to do with a beautiful, sweaty, tart, on her back and in her undies!

Rules Effect: When a Doxy with Hag

Fighter is in a Hag Fight (see Chapter Five: Combat) she may call for a single Attack Roll to be rerolled. She must accept the second result even if she has screwed up worse than the first time!

Calculating

Restrictions: Must have a Cheating of

at least 4.

Description: The Doxy knows exactly

when to act, making her move precisely when it would be most effective.

Rules Effect: At the beginning of

each Week after all Initiatives have been rolled the Doxy may choose where she places herself in the Initiative order. If two Doxies have this Merit and cannot agree on who acts when they must roll a Cheating Challenge against each other with the winner getting to choose first.

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Restrictions: None.

Description: The Doxy has a Regular

Punter. Regardless of the quality of her Services he (or she) keeps coming back for more: What an idiot!

Rules Effect: Select one of the

Punters the Doxy Serviced in the previous Week of Work (or if taken at Character Creation the Player and Bawd create the Punter together.) This Punter will make a visit to the Brothel at the same time (action) each Week of Work and demand to see his beloved Doxy. If the Punter is killed this Merit is lost. A Doxy can never lose Pull from failing a Servicing action with a Regular.

Special: This Merit can be “ranked

up” each “level” representing a new Regular whilst occupying the same Merit Slot on the Character Sheet. Obviously if one Punter dies the Merit simply drops a level rather than vanishing completely.

Criminal Merits

The final group of Merits are all based on Criminal activities and thus are called Criminal Merits. They are likely to get to you into trouble my dear, do be careful!

Fingersmith

Restrictions: Must have Strong

Cheating and be Good At Pickpocketing.

Description: The Doxy is a masterful

pickpocket and her talented fingers rarely fail... yes in other things too you dirty bugger!

Rules Effect: When the Doxy fails a

Pickpocketing action she may spend a point of Pull as a “get out of Notoriety

Corrupting the “Innocent” Regulars tend to wise up to ze realities of the harsh world pretty quickly. At the end of each Week of Work roll a dice for each Regular. On a 1 his Gullibility increases by one. When Gullibility increases beyond the maximum of 6 ze Punter is removed from the game and ze Merit is lost. Ze Punter is probably dead, broke or both!

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free card.” Not only does she get away scot free she manages to snatch away change or pocket litter amounting to 1 Rhino.

Silver Tongued Devil

Charming and be Good At Con Games.

Description: The Doxy is so good at

Con Games she can weasel her way out of the most hopelessly botched Con.

Rules Effect: When the Doxy fails a

Con Games roll she can spend a point of Pull to escape unmolested with a consolation prize of 1 Rhino.

Jenny Jemmy

Cheating and be Good At Housebreaking.

Description: The Doxy is a dab hand

at Housebreaking. She is practiced enough that she can take her time and be a lot more careful.

Rules Effect: The Doxy may reroll

any Housebreaking roll that fails though she must accept the second result.

Blagging Bitch

Fighting and be Good At Blagging.

Description: The Doxy is a practiced

armed robber and excellent at

intimidating people with violence. She may or may not have done some

serious harm or even killed before but she certainly appears like she has!

any Blagging roll that fails though she must accept the second result.

Silent and Deadly

Fighting and be Good At Murder.

Description: The Doxy is practiced at

the silent kill: Either a sneaky stab to the back or killing the poor bloke in his sleep. How she got said practice is very much up to the Player.

Rules Effect: The Doxy doubles the

number of Injuries she inflicts with Murder rolls.

Goes to Ground

Cheating.

Description: The Doxy knows how

best to evade the law: Either through practice or inside knowledge.

any failed Evasion roll though she must accept the second result. A Doxy starts play with ONE Merit of her Choice.

Example: Bernadette plays her concept to the max and decides that Sugar is so ignorant of the ways of the world she is actually a Dell.

Having selected this Merit her Profile now looks like this...

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Name: Miss Sugar Plum Concept: Naive Noob Eye Colour: Green Hair Colour: Blonde Tits: Average Arse: Average Bitching: 4 Bonking: 3 Charming (Strong): 5 Cheating (Weak): 1 Daring: 2 Fighting: 3

Good At: Charming Naivety,

Charming Eccentricity

Merits: Dell

Choose Starting Flaw

Everyone has their weaknesses and in Doxy these are represented by Flaws. Flaws are, like Merits, Background elements with rules attached. However unlike Merits they don’t help you: In fact they are a right royal pain in your pretty arse!

Flaws come in four Categories: Recovery Flaws, Asset Flaws, Tactical Flaws and Escalating Flaws.

Recovery, Asset and Tactical Flaws are laid out as follows

Name: The Name of the Flaw

Cancels: If a Doxy with a Merit this

Flaw cancels gains this Flaw in play she immediately loses said Merit. At Character Creation she may not take

the Flaw if she has the Merit the Flaw Cancels.

Description: Details of the Flaw’s

Story World effect.

Rules Effect: How the Flaw impacts

on the rules.

Recovery Flaws

These Flaws remove the advantage of Natural Recovery from a specific Statistic.

Happy, happy, happy!

Cancels: Spiteful Madam.

Description: Perhaps as a coping

mechanism for some deep inner trauma the Doxy has convinced herself that she has nothing to complain about. This makes

establishing her catty rage all the more difficult.

Rules Effect: The Doxy does not

benefit from Natural Healing to the Bitching Statistic though she may Heal it by other means as normal.

Battered

Cancels: Tireless.

Description: The Doxy has taken so

much punishment her body isn’t up to coping with it any more. It’s a tough life and it may well be too much for her.

benefit from Natural Healing to the Bonking Statistic though she may Heal it by other means as normal.

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Cancels: Irrepressibly Sweet. Description: The Doxy has some sort

of physical blemish that, whether it is or not, she considers unsightly. The effect of this on a girl’s confidence can be quite detrimental.

benefit from Natural Healing to the Charming Statistic though she may Heal it by other means as normal.

Losing Her Touch

Cancels: Never Beat, Fingersmith and

Jenny Jemmy.

Description: However canny she may

have been in the past something has happened that has made the Doxy lose confidence in her deceptive and perceptive talents.

benefit from Natural Healing to the Cheating Statistic though she may Heal it by other means as normal.

Cowardice Sets In

Cancels: Iron Will

Description: The Doxy has become

timid and submissive: Unable to muster up the courage to say no to requests that may previously have horrified her.

benefit from Natural Healing to the Daring Statistic though she may Heal it by other means as normal.

Fights Like a Girly Girl

Cancels: Badass, Blagging Bitch,

Silent and Deadly, and Hag Fighter.

Description: The Doxy has lost the

knack of fighting: Regardless of any previous prowess she isn’t up to scratch at all!

benefit from Natural Healing to the Fighting Statistic though she may Heal it by other means as normal.

Asset Flaws

These Flaws hinder the acquisition and maintenance of Assets. Believe me this isn’t nearly as bad as it sounds!

Big Spender

Cancels: Profitable Sideline.

Description: The Doxy has a habit of

going on pointless spending sprees and generally mismanaging her money. This can be quite detrimental with all those bills to pay!

Church/Chapel the Doxy subtracts a dice roll from her Rhino.

Whiney Bitch

Cancels: Everybody is Talking About

Me.

Description: The Doxy is always

complaining and it takes its toll on her popularity with Town and Punters alike.

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Church/Chapel the Doxy subtracts a dice roll from her Pull.

Dirty Blower

Cancels: A Bit of Class and Dell. Description: The Doxy is known as a

very dirty girl and thus loses her justification for the usual levels of Upfront Fees.

Rules Effect: The Doxy Subtracts 1

Rhino from all her Upfront Fees.

Tactical Flaws

These Flaws present pronounced tactical disadvantages.

Detested Punter

Cancels: Preferred Punter if the Class

is the same.

Description: The Doxy really can’t

stand a certain Class of Punter. Perhaps this stems from a bad experience or political, social or religious views.

Rules Effect: She suffers a -1 penalty

to Pleasing rolls with this Class. Choose from Petty Criminal, Romantic Criminal, Craftsman, Tradesman, Gentry or Clergy

Ditzy

Cancels: Calculating. Description: The Doxy is in

something of a permanent daze acting

only when she feels like it not when it would be most advisable.

Rules Effect: The Doxy does not roll

for Initiative. Instead the Bawd selects one of the other Players at random and she chooses when the Doxy acts. In the case of multiple Doxies with this Flaw have them roll a Cheating Challenge against each other with each Doxy’s position being selected by highest to lowest roll.

Fatal Morality

Cancels: Nothing.

Description: The Doxy has got some

silly idea into her head about “morality.” Worst possible thing to happen to a girl in many Bawds’ books!

Rules Effect: The Doxy will not

Service a male Punter with Anal Sex, Service female Punters (even talkers); use Sheathes or any other form of Contraception or gain the Abortion Flaw.

Prefers the Ladies

Cancels: Nothing.

Description: The Doxy is one of

Georgian England’s hidden

homosexuals. She may be accepting of this identity or not but it is

nevertheless playing on her mind whenever she inevitably has to Service a Man.

Rules Effect: The Doxy suffers a -1

penalty to all Services with Male Admirers.

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Escalating Flaws

Escalating Flaws work slightly differently in that they err... well... escalate!

At the start of each Week the Doxy must make a Management Test to try and contain the Flaw’s effects. This is a Test of a set Statistic against the number of times the Flaw has been taken (known as the Escalation Level) as the Difficulty.

If the Test is failed the Margin of Failure has an effect appropriate to the Flaw.

They have a similar profile to the other two kinds of Flaw.

Name: The Name of the Flaw

Cancels: If a Doxy with a Merit this

Flaw cancels gains this Flaw in play she immediately loses said Merit. At Character Creation she may not take

the Flaw if she has the Merit the Flaw Cancels.

Description: Details of the Flaw’s

Story World effect.

Escalation Type: How the Flaw

escalates in Story World terms.

Management Statistic: The Statistic

used in Management Tests for this Flaw.

Test Failure: Details of the effect of a

failed Management Test.

Consumptive

Cancels: Tireless

Description: The Doxy has Consumption known today as Tuberculosis. It’s a very nasty respiratory infection that really fucks you up. Suffers start with a nasty cough and end up throwing up blood.

Escalation Type: The infection gets

worse.

Management Statistic: The Management Statistic for Consumptive is Bonking.

Test Failure: A Doxy who fails the

Management Test for Consumptive takes a number of Bonking Injuries equal to her Margin of Failure. These Injuries can be healed by any normal means.

Escalation Ceiling Escalation Levels can go as high as you like but it is not at all recommended to take zem above 8 as that will make zem more or less impossible to beat.

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Cancels: Iron Will, Bit of Class and

Dell.

Description: The Doxy has become

addicted to sex and cannot focus her mind on much else for long.

Escalation Type: This is a mental

illness so it gets more and more severe the more the Flaw Escalates.

Management Statistic: The

Management Statistic for Nymphomania is Daring.

Test Failure: A Doxy who fails her

Management Test for this Flaw must make a number of Risky sexual actions during the week equal to her Margin of Failure.

Bedlamite

Cancels: Iron Will and Calculating. Description: The Doxy is violently

insane only just managing to keep out of the nut house! She seems normal most of the time but when you set her off she could very easily kill you for the tiniest perceived threat.

Escalation Type: Again it’s a mental

illness that slowly eats at the mind as the Flaw Escalates.

Management Statistic for Bedlamite is Daring.

Management roll for this Flaw will attempt to Murder a number of Punters or Marks equal to her Margin of Failure. The Bawd selects which poor bugger gets the treatment!

Fire-Ship

Cancels: Dell, Bit of Class, Tireless Description: The Doxy is a

“Fire-Ship” in that she has contracted the dreaded pox! This horrific STD will doubtless eventually kill her and is highly contagious.

Escalation Type: The disease gets

more virulent as the Flaw Escalates.

Management Statistic for Fire-Ship is Bonking.

Management Test for this Flaw must apply her Margin of Failure as Injuries to Bonking and Charm. This Injuries may be Healed by any normal means.

Disease and Death

To prevent EPIC gaming tantrums you are NEVER forced to make a Save against Death from ze Management Roll of von of zese Diseases. Regardless of your Margin of Failure ze Statistic simply suffers as many Injuries as it can. You are veakened but you von’t drop dead before you get to play!