CONTENTS

1. Introduction....”shut your damn snoot.”...........
2. Character creation for Zootopian Criminals.....
3. Character background history.....
4. Types of Criminal Characters.....
5. The early criminal years, gaining experience and “cred”

INTRODUCTION
“Keep your snoot shut or else”

     “If Don Carlo had told me....you gotta go? I would have come here today with these two “zips”? And you.....would go. John? You can not “whack” a made man one somebody else’s crew! There are rules! You start breaking the rules and this whole God damned “Thing of ours” cracks and crumbles!........You never.....break....the rules.....capeesh?”

The late actor Anthony Quinn as gangster Anellio Delacroche
The HBO movie “Gotti” 1996

     Welcome to Zootopia you little snit. Welcome to the “dark side” of the “wild side” to the world “we” make for ourselves be it “our thing” single or “our thing” as in “La Familia” or “La Snowzah Snootzah”. Clept-o-maniac, shop lifter, booster, pick pocket, scam artist, gang member, gang leader, Caporegime or big boss “Mister Big” we’re all here to do the same thing best described by the late American gangster Carlo Gambino...

     “Why make an honest living when you can’t keep all the money you’ve earned by being honest and keeping a clock? Schools make docile lemmings who lay down....the street makes rich soldiers and brothers who die on their feet and live life.”

     This book is “our thing” it’s our rules for how to operate and avoid the long claws of the ZPD. I’m sure you all feel the same way right? We all want to “Make it” on the streets so we can one day “be made” and then “Make it big” at the same time we’re all in competition with each other for the same slice of the same pie and not all of us can eat from that slice of pie so some of us have “to go” as in “fluck you” as in “Whack you” as in “Clip you” as in “Ice you” as in hang you on a meat hook, draw dotted lines all over your body and partial you up for the illegal meat market because even though we’re all criminals? Some of you taste good with Mint Sauce and a nice wine and you pay well.

       In this book we’ll teach you the basics of crime in Zootopia. How to develop your character as a little weasel who got “bitched” around too much and decided to “clip” his father when he was asleep. You decided school was all “bull snit” and you learned that picking some high roller pockets was good for a daily meal at “Micky Mouse’s” then you decided to deal date rape drugs and fell into the territory of Whitey Badger and he made you an offer you couldn’t refuse. Holy snit? Was that your brother Jimmy on that cooking spit? Shut....your.....mouth! You little Mustel-eee bastard. All of you are stinky weasels in need of a pole enema and a BBQ pit. This coming from a Polar Bear, and let’s face it? Who among you little snits is daring to fluck with me?

       You’ll learn how to make weapons, how to crack safes, pick locks, steal cars, deal drugs and work your way up the corporation ladder of crime while avoiding the ZPD...or bribing them to your point of view. and more importantly...avoid getting “whacked” by your rivals. I hear some Polar Bears are especially good at hitting home runs with otters.

      And as mammals in our line of work, we’re not all disorganized, stupid lemmings running to a cliff....there are laws, there are rules, there are binding oaths, ties of family, loyalty to members and clients and if you have the sack between your rear legs to “fluck the rules” then you better know....sometimes it works? And sometimes.....you gonna get FLUCKEN WHACKED!

      Now sit your tail down, pop your ears up and flucken listen you silly furry snake. Crime school is in session. Welcome to Zootopia where the better place? Is us making all the fricken money and putting the “screw you” to the tax bunny! You Capeesh me?

Tall Pauley Costellano
Under Boss to Vincenso “Mister Big” Lanzoni

P.S. Told you too damn much. Now I has to “clip” you. Damn...I can never get a class to last more than a damn day you know? Sorry to drop you in the ice water but you know?.....just business you understand me?

Character Creation for Zootopian Criminals
From wayward foxy youth to silver spoon’d sheep terrorists

There is no college for crime

        Criminal characters in “Clops n Floppers” are developed very differently from the characters of the ZPD. There is no academy of crime, no school of criminalism. Criminals come from all backgrounds, different economic, family conditions and multiple factors occur at various times in their lives which mold and shape them off the strait and narrow path of goodness, decency and law abiding citizenship into the often “culvert or drum barrel occupying” life of a thief, a rapist, a serial killer, a hired gun for a Mafia chieftain or a city-wide terrorist.

       The legendary New York mobster, Carlo Gambino, was born into the Sicilian syndicate. Much of his family were closely tied to or directly involved in what was known at the turn of the century as “The Honored Society” but would later be known in America as “La Costra Nostra” or “La Familia” or “Our Family” or “This thing of ours.”

      We know it better as The Mafia.

       Carlo Gambino began his climb on the Mafia ladder at 14 when he became a hired enforcer for the King of “The Men of Respect” in Sicily Don Vito Cashiofero (Ca-she-oh-fey-row). It was Cashiofero who perfected the art of the “protection racket” which was the lynch pin money maker for Mafia mobsters in America from Al Capone to John Gotti. Carlo Gambino, Al Capone and John Gotti were all school drop outs and street thugs, petty criminals who plied trades under criminal teachers before they became legends. And their climb to their ultimate goal in life was full of dead bodies. Their education was the streets, knives, guns, petty theft, extortion, rackets and murder.

      You may even compare their early life to that of the young Spartans who could only become true Spartan warriors when they went out to kill a slave. And that slave, or Helot (He-laut) had to be killed without the killer getting caught.

      Criminal characters in this Zootopia RPG then...don’t achieve their basic character traits of....

Strength and hitting power: 
Health: 
Agility: 
Dexterity: 
Intelligence: 
Education: 
Willpower: 
Charisma: 
Stamina: 
Appearance: 

       ....By attending an academy as ZPD officers do. Criminal characters begin their creation by making two dice rolls....

1. The education grade roll.
2. The TBN roll. (Total Base Number) 

The education grade roll.

        The education grade roll is a 1d12 dice roll to determine how many grades of education your character completed in their early life. If you make a 12 roll, you then can make a 1d4 roll for the number of college years completed. This number is then added into the TBN roll.

The TBN roll. (Total Base Number)

        The TBN roll is a 1d100 and a 1d6 rolled together and added with the education roll number to have the final TBN which is divided among all the basic traits. Remember, no trait can be less than 2 or greater than 10. The TBN role can also be no less than 30 so if you roll below 30 you get to roll until you achieve 30 or over.

Example

      Armando the rat rolls an education level of 9 (9th Grade) and a TBN of 75. add the 9 to 75 and Armando’s final TBN number is 84. Now he can divide the 84 over all his basic character traits.

Character Background History
Why did you become what you are?

     What made a character like Dawn Bellweather become so bad that she threatened to start a “civil war” of sorts between predators and prey by threatening the civil rights of predators and the peace Zootopia so enjoyed? The movie Zootopia only hints at what caused her to snap but it provides enough information that we can figure out that she has a bad background history. No matter how hard she tried in the early part of the film? Dawn Bellweather could not surmount her disadvantage of being a very small sheep, an easy prey for bullies to exploit and abuse. Being so small, she was the target of endless bullies throughout her young life. Mayor Leo Lionheart’s abuse of Dawn was the final “whipping” that led her to seek her only means of restitution and justice...the Savage Scare.

      Your criminal character MUST have a background story that gives him or her the reason to seek a life of crime, what is this motivation that wills the character to go out and actually do harm to others for that is what the criminal does, they commit harm and that has to have a generation point in life which started the criminal process.

       All the school shooters in America, Jim Jones who led almost a thousand people to commit suicide in Guyana in 1978, Adolf Hitler who led Germany to complete ruin and committed unspeakable atrocities, and the killers, gangsters and famous criminals of the roaring 1920‘s a hundred years ago...all had their motivational factors through their formative years that are the basis of their criminal identity.

       Your Character’s early story is you, the Players, task to write and you should write it down and show a copy of the back story to the “RM” or “Ring Master (Commonly known as the Dungeon Master who runs the RPG) so he can tailor his scenario to fit your character’s back story and provide the character with the environment to cultivate and thrive as a criminal in Zootopia.

      There are plenty of RPG related, “back story” generation web sites available on the internet where you can plug in some basic facts and words to describe your character and a back ground history will be created which you could take ideas from. There are also two books that I recommend for back story creation....

Writing and Selling your Mystery Novel by Hallie Ephron (c) 2018

The Ultimate RPG Character Back Story Guide by James D’Amato (c) 2018

       Both of these books are excellent for “fleshing out” a story character’s life prior to their involvement in the RPG.

The Types of Criminal Characters
“What do we have here, a criminal Union?”

      Criminal types do fall into what are commonly called “Lots”, like car lots that sell specific types of vehicles, such as “Personal Utility Vehicles” or Jaguar or Mercedes Benz. Each criminal lot has a similar background, motivating factor(s) and behavior profile. Take for example...

The Barrow Gang

        People today have long forgotten that Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were not just two people but a criminal gang that included Clyde’s brother Buck Barrow and his wife Blanche, W.D. Jones, Henry Methvin, Raymond Hamilton, Joe Palmet and Ralph Fults.

       Save Blanche, who was the daughter of a prominent Southern Baptist Minister, the Barrow gang all shared the same background...born into poverty, very poor schooling and early criminal involvement. Clyde Barrow followed his older brother Buck into crime at 16 with petty robbery because....job prospects were few and Buck “had it in” for the “swell folk”. Hate for self condition and for those the Barrow gang saw were “Swell or well off folk” permeated all the members of the gang as “hate for the Union and the Rail Roads” were motivations for the James gang after the American Civil War.

       Here are a few examples of these Lots.....

The single event criminal

       The single event criminal is your one time, one event actor who is motivated by revenge, political action, mental affliction or a desire for fame and notoriety through a form of violence that will “shock and awe” the masses or bring a feeling of satisfaction that a wrong to self has been or will be redressed by an act of brutality. America’s school and mass shooters and Arab terrorists including the 9/11 hijackers and the 2013 Boston Bomber Brothers fill this lot as well as those who were looking for that one big score and ended up causing hell or total hell, like the Two North Hollywood bank shooters some years ago who shot up an entire neighborhood and wounded dozens of officers after a bitched Bank of America heist. Dawn Bellweather was a single event criminal in Zootopia.

The repeat offender, the average low grade criminal.

      Zootopia’s Duke Weaselton and Nick Wilde fit into this lot as do most pick pockets, shop lifters, people who don’t turn in lost items they’ve picked up, and open opportunity criminals. They don’t all come from bad backgrounds, certainly Nick seems to have come from a very good childhood or at least what his mother (we never know if he had a father, typical Disney movie) tried to provide him. Many low grade repeat offender criminals have some college background. They prefer to be unobtrusive, “out of the light criminals” who go out of their way not to physically harm anyone unless they’re a weasel running from a determined cop who thought causing mice to flee in terror would help him escape.

       As Duke Weaselton so aptly put it...money is a big motivation for these criminals, the easy mark, the easy score, the no frills take, Often these “near straits” may get picked up by a criminal gang because they have a special skill the gang can exploit and usually they are kept like change in a pocket used only when needed to get a score.

The repeat offender, the average middle grade criminal.

      Strong arm robberies, breaking and entering, car jacking, mugging, bullies, drug mules and dealers as well as political cause acting criminals fit this category. Though commonly they come from a bad history, there are those who have a college level education with exceptional I.Q. who fit this category like Ted Kazinski the “Uni-bomber” or heiress Patty Hurst who robbed banks with a socialist gang called “The Simbineese Liberation Army or “The SLA” in the early 1970‘s

      These criminals go from wanting to be unobtrusive as possible to getting downright in the face of the public be it for money, desire for fame or for political motivation and cause attention. Hurting others is considered “par for the course of action” and if a life needs to be used as a human shield to keep me out of prison? Then they will snatch hostages. They will also kill if they think the victim will “rat them out”

      These are also the criminals wanted by organized crime unless they can not follow specific rules placed upon them by the “High Authority figure” Crime Boss or Don. Mafia members often have criminal rap “books” which enhance their “street Cred” and raise their potential for being “Made” by a “boss”or “Hired by a Swell” for lucrative profit.

The repeat offender, the high grade criminal.

      Ordinary crime killers, rapists, mob enforcers, extortionists, Drug dealers and drug king pins, Organized Gangsters and leaders of terrorist groups or criminal political regimes fit this lot. This is the ruthless criminal who often comes from diverse histories and backgrounds who has a lust for greed or power or to feel “the rush” that personal satisfaction from just being cold, brutal, sadistic and savage. Examples would be Jenner the Rat (Secret of Nimh) Nekron (Fire and Ice) Hitler, Stalin, Al Capone, John Gotti, Osama Bin Laden. Killing is part of the life even a requirement towards the ultimate goal be it “Whacking old Gran Ma Ma” (Yes Mister Big killed his grandmother, you don’t “bury someone in a rug” if you didn’t “Mob Whack” their ass.”) or sending 19 men to slaughter over 2000 people.

The specialized criminal, the mechanic

         The specialized criminal doesn’t have to be a ruthless killer or even a petty thief. Those who handle these kinds of criminals may insist they stay “out of the life” to only be called in when a big score is a promised pay off for their skills. In the 1988 movie “Die Hard” actor Clarence Gilyard played Alan Rickman’s tech man “Theo” who in the book the movie is based from “Nothing lasts Forever” was a computer gifted college student recruited by Hans Gruber to crack the security code to the Nakatomi finance vault.......why? Because Theo was greedy as hell and who would not crack a safe worth billions of dollars that could give a 21 year old man a work free life of comfort?

The specialized criminal, the murder / cleaner mechanic

         Gambino enforcer Sammy “The Bull” Gravano and bomb makers for the Irish Republican Army are criminals who specialize in “Whack a doodle” or “Hits” or “Rub outs” or “Shove a rat down yer throat” kind of work. They are stone cold ruthless yet intelligent and methodical killers who often work for a higher power on jobs requiring a lack of evidence or a difficult trail to tie that high power to a killing or a bombing or an arson. They are commonly called “3rd party actors” or “proxy”

The psychotic killer  

       This is your serial killer, your religious fanatic, Your Columbine style shooter. The 44 Caliber Killer, The Hillside Strangler, Doctor Hannibal Lechter, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Eric Harris and Dillon Klebold. The Psychotic Killer runs the whole range of background histories and they’re not your typical “Hollywood stero-type crazy boy” like Michael Meyers or Buffalo Bill. The serial killer is able to function well in normal society in most cases and can even be the most unlikely of criminals until they slip up such as with John Wayne Gacy or Wayne Williams the Atlanta Child Murderer. It’s even a stretch to call Adolf Hitler a psychotic.

       There are multiple factors that play into making a person a true psychotic, it is even no stretch to say that the multitude of mood and mind altering drugs that have been given to school children since the 1980‘s (like Ridlin and prozac) will eventually produce a destructive psychotic killer, Eric Harris and Dillon Klebold prove that modern “psycho-tropics” are dangerous. The best example in fiction of a character turned psychotic through continuous drug interaction is author Don Pendleton’s Mack Bolan in the book “Sudden Death” where Bolan is conditioned by drug therapy to “Manchurian Candidate” (assassinate) the President of the United States.

       The traditional psychotic killer is more often motivated by a desperate need to full fill a desire, a fettish, a craving or a lust for brutality, suffering and death. He has a need to feel “a run” or “a rush” from the experience and like a drug addict, once he’s hooked, he will continue to kill unless stopped. In many cases, Like Jack the Ripper or the 44 caliber killer David Berkowitz....the serial killer will make taunting law enforcement part of his “high”, he “thrills” at taunting police to catch him or identify him.

      As a Character back story, take Armando the rat who I had as a TBN role example earler....

      Armando had a normal child hood. His mother Ellen was a clothing merchet who worked for the big Target store in downtown Little Rodentia. His father Trevor had been working until he injured his back and became addicted to pain killers. Ellen died when she was 28 and Armando was 7. After that his father became very abusive.

       Armando despite the abuse did well in school up to the 9th grade. Though he had only a paw full of friends and was mostly alone with himself....till he met Tony Toponi of the Jicket Street Gang in Little Rodentia. Tony doesn’t go to school but he skims the middle schools for talented mice...Tony hates rats actually and wouldn’t have bothered with Armando except....Armando’d talent for computer art is “fricken crazy”

      Tony talks to his “sqeeze” (sexual partner) and intelligent “right hand” “Lieutenant” Fievel “Five” or “Philly” Mousekowitz about Armando....

     “Now You know I hates rats “Five” but this kid? I swear....this kid can draw on a computer like no one’s biz and I’m tellin you? Right there is the talent we need for making counterfeit licenses. What cha think?”

 
     Fievel, who attends Armando’s school, checks him out over the course of a week yet finds that it may take some skillful “Fuzz-nipple sucking” to pull the young rat into the gang. Fievel befriends Armando and finds out about the horrible abuse he’s taking from his father. Armando suffers severe beatings and berating that he’s a worthless mammal his father would sell to a pimp if it would get him high. Both Fievel and Tony use the “We feel you? Come with us? We’ll make you feel wanted. You’ll know love from all of us I promise you.” approach to draw Armando into working for the gang. He then becomes a “specialized protected Mechanic” getting the love and attention he has always wanted while becoming a loyal and dedicated “Forge-fur” for Tony’s ambitions and a family atmosphere he wants to stay in.

      That background story was made using this web site.....

       https://www.kassoon.com/dnd/backstory-generator/

     With of course my added touches. Here is where Armando’s criminal career as one of the finest and most desired forge experts in all Zootopia comes from. And Tony contracts Armando’s skills which not only brings in money for the gang but increases Tony’s “street cred” and crime visibility in the hopes he will become a “made mammal” of a mafia family.

  The early criminal years
Gaining experience and street cred

“Other kids are brought up nice and sent to Harvard and yale.Me?I was brought up like a mushroom.” 

Frank Costello, Mafia Crime Boss

“Don’t fret yer eye lids on that score! I’m goin to London tonight me self. I know a jolly gentleman there. He will give you lodgins for nothing he will. That is....If I introduce you?” 

Jack Dawkins aka “The Artful Dodger” in Oliver Twist.

      As a child, I thought no actor ever played the artful dodger better than the late actor Jack Wild (Who also played the lead in Sid and Marty Krofts H.R. Puff in Stuff) The Artful Dodger was in Charles Dickens time the classic street wise urchin thief who stole and scammed because they had too...or they died. Childhood in Victorian England was short, often cruel, very violent and very abusive. If you weren’t an orphan or in poverty somewhat starving and working in a collective orphanage / work house? You were in a gang of urchin tuffs with “a Chief” urchin or under the apprenticeship of a tradesman or professional criminal....or a slut in a brothel....male and female alike.

      For the Artful Dodger, that life? Nope...I’m going to take what I need and I’m not only going to be good at it but I’ll teach other kids to do it so I don’t have to risk my neck so much. Back in Victorian London, being caught stealing was a hanging offense off the old London Bridge. Welcome to the basic form of a street gang be they the Irish mob in Boston or the New York Mafia. Often it is better to attach yourself to a gang than to try free lancing your way through life as a petty criminal. But perhaps the single strike out on the world character is more adventurous for you?

        As with Armando the rat, you get picked up by a gang because you have something to offer that they need be it handy with a gun or a computer and a printer, you just have to “get noticed” to get “picked up” and for that to happen? You must gain both experience and accreditation (Accreditation or “Street Cred”). It could be you seeking out the gang or the gang seeking you.

Experience Points and Street Cred

       As with the officers of the ZPD, criminal character experiance points begin by half’ing the TBN number. If your TBN is 84 then your experience starts off at 42. “Street cred” is always 1/6 of experience points so Armando would have a starting experience point level of 42
with a street cred of 7. Street cred is subtracted from 1d20 rolls where it relates to making a top number in a situation and that modifier is always 1/5 of street cred so a 7 street cred would be a minus 1 modifier.

How would Armando get noticed by Tony Toponi?

         Tony Toponi is Fievel Mousekowitz’s street wise side kick in “An American Tail” which was a 1980‘s Don Blooth movie made after Blooth completely separated himself from Disney. Tony is your stereotypical example of a hollywood Italian street tough...self-confident, intelligent, able to draw others to his side as he does with Fievel. Of course the reason is obvious...."Benefits me self. Which is the only important thing I might add.” Tony is our furry artful Dodger to his furry Oliver...Fievel.

        So how does Tony realize that Armando...even thought he’s a stinkin rat....is a mammal he needs for his little gang of Topian Tuffs?

       First you have Armando’s basic traits of....
 
Intelligence: 8
Education: 7
Charisma: 9
Appearance: 9

Plus his experience points 40 

minus his “street cred” 6

All divided by 5 which equals a top roll of 13

      Then we take Toni Toponi’s basic traits of....

Intelligence: 8
Education: 7

Plus his experiance points of say....64

Minus his “street cred” of 11

All divided by 5 which equals a top roll of 14

But wait.....now we have to add 3 to the top roll because Tony hates Rats, which makes his roll a 17

Now it’s Armando’s roll to “be noticed” against Tony’s roll to even notice Armando has a gift to offer. See how the “racism” factor makes this a slim possibility?

However.....to be nice to Armando....he rolls a 14 and Tony rolls a 20

Armando’s low number means...he doesn’t realize he’s been “made” by Tony as an object of curiosity. Tony’s perfect roll of 20 says....”Gee....this rat’s really good at computers and art. Hmmm? Now if Tony had say....rolled a 17? He would have been very questionable because of his racist beliefs. He would then have to roll a 1d100 percentile against his top roll of 17 multiplied 3 times because of his racist bias against rats to take a serious second look at Armando. Lucky for Armando? Tony rolls a “double ot”

“Holy cheese in dirty shorts?” Tony thinks....”He’s a rat...but this kid’s an extremely talented rat. I better get talking to Filly about this kid and snatch him up before some other wise tail from the “Squeegees” gets him.”