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Jkeown

Jun 13th, '05, 07:53 PM

Here's a Diamtrya... Caleon-style....

Wazzan

Player:

<table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right">Val  </td><td>Char   </td><td>Cost</td></tr><tr><td align="right">25  </td><td>STR</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td align="right">15  </td><td>DEX</td><td>15</td></tr><tr><td align="right">15  </td><td>CON</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right">13  </td><td>BODY</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td align="right">8  </td><td>INT</td><td>-2</td></tr><tr><td align="right">8  </td><td>EGO</td><td>-4</td></tr><tr><td align="right">18  </td><td>PRE</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td align="right">10  </td><td>COM</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td></td><td> </td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="right">5  </td><td>PD</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td align="right">6  </td><td>ED</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td align="right">3  </td><td>SPD</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right">8  </td><td>REC</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td align="right">30  </td><td>END</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td align="right">34  </td><td>STUN</td><td>0</td></tr><td></td><td> </td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="right">12"  </td><td>RUN</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td align="right">2"  </td><td>SWIM</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td align="right">5"  </td><td>LEAP</td><td>0</td></tr></table>Characteristics Cost: 27

<table border="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td align="right">Cost  </td><td>Power</td><td align="right">END</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">15  </td><td>Greater Strength: +15 STR </td><td valign="top" align="right">1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">6  </td><td>Greater Mass: +3 BODY </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">6  </td><td>Heavy: Knockback Resistance -3" </td><td valign="top" align="right">0</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">5  </td><td>More Impressive: +5 PRE </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">12  </td><td>Long Legs: Running +6" (12" total) </td><td valign="top" align="right">1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">3  </td><td>Tougher: +3 ED </td><td valign="top" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">4  </td><td>Reach: Stretching 1", Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (7 Active Points); Always Direct (-1/4), No Noncombat Stretching (-1/4), No Velocity Damage (-1/4) </td><td valign="top" align="right">0</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">15  </td><td>Bite: HKA 1d6 (2d6 w/STR) </td><td valign="top" align="right">1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">12  </td><td>Claw: HKA 1d6 (2d6 w/STR) (15 Active Points); Reduced Penetration (-1/4) </td><td valign="top" align="right">1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">1  </td><td>Charge: Running 3" (6 Active Points); Increased Endurance Cost (8x END; -3 1/2) </td><td valign="top" align="right">8</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top">6  </td><td>Sharp Eyed: +3 PER with Sight Group </td><td valign="top" align="right">0</td></tr></table>Powers Cost: 85

<table cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td align="right">Val  </td><td>Disadvantages</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">10  </td><td>Physical Limitation: Near-Human Intelligence Frequently, Slightly Impairing </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">10  </td><td>Physical Limitation: Poor Hearing, suffers -2 to all Hearing PER Rolls Frequently, Slightly Impairing </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">10  </td><td>Physical Limitation: Limited Manipulation Frequently, Slightly Impairing </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">5  </td><td>Physical Limitation: Large, up to twice human size (4m, or 2"; -2 DCV, +2 to PER Rolls to perceive) Infrequently, Slightly Impairing </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right">20  </td><td>Psychological Limitation: Domesticated Very Common, Strong </td></tr></table>
Disadvantage Points: 55
 
Base Points: 75
Experience Required: 0
Total Experience Available: 0
Experience Unspent: 0
Total Character Cost: 112
 
<table width="100%" valign="top"><tr valign="top"><td>Height: 2.00 m</td><td>Hair: Brown</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>Weight: 100.00 kg</td><td>Eyes: Brown</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td colspan=2>Appearance: Large, bownish-yellow or black birds similar to a diamtrya or other archeo-avian. Or maybe a large chicken.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td colspan=2>Personality: Clever and dangerous, the Wazzan is prized as a mount, certainly, but more as companion. They form quick bonds with their riders, and learn battle commands with ease. They can be violently protective of their masters. </td></tr><tr valign="top"><td colspan=2>Quote:"Waka? Wha-Waka?" </td></tr><tr valign="top"><td colspan=2>Background: The Common Imperial Wazzan is... well... common. Lacking horses (mostly cuz I suck at drawing them) Caleots domesticated the large predatory birds that lived near them. </td></tr><tr valign="top"><td colspan=2>Powers/Tactics: Kick. Peck. Repeat.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td colspan=2>Campaign Use: You ride them, eat them, maybe fight them after they've been twisted and augmented by evil mages... </td></tr></table>

JTesla

Jun 13th, '05, 08:37 PM

Very nice, sort of like a Chocobo (from Final Fantasy), but eatable. I like the campaign use suggestion of some being twisted and augmented. I think for that reason I will definitely keep a copy of this handy. Good vs. Evil Wazzan has a certain appeal.

EDIT: With near human intelligence, any skills?

Michael Hopcroft

Jun 14th, '05, 01:45 AM

Two questions:

1. What do they taste like, and how is the meat usually prepared and cooked?

2. How do people, especially those who ride these birds, feel about eating them? Is it considered an unpleasant thing to do? Is it the sort of situation where you will eat a stranger's bird but not your own mount? Or is it a ritual that you do eat your mount when it dies as a sign of respect?

Markdoc

Jun 14th, '05, 02:08 AM

Two questions:

1. What do they taste like, and how is the meat usually prepared and cooked?

Taste? Chicken, of course!

As for cooking, anything that's been ridden around for a while is probably best stewed...

cheers, Mark

Michael Hopcroft

Jun 14th, '05, 02:15 AM

Taste? Chicken, of course!
"There are two kinds of creatures in the Universe, Peri -- things that taste like chicken, and chickens."

Jkeown

Jun 14th, '05, 03:16 AM

EDIT: With near human intelligence, any skills?

I was wondering about that... I considered giving them skills, but couldn't decide on what to give them. Perhaps Mimicry... spouting clues to stuff they've seen like some kinda giant parrot.

I don't think you can eat the Wazzan you ride... it'd be like devouring a family member. Wild ones still roam the northern plains, running around avoiding the Grey Pouncers, jumping over the traps of the Pit Builder and the Greater Pit Builder, or in the southern areas, locked in competition with Dire Voop and the Bug Eater (an invasive species of warm-blooded reptile from Tharq).

The wild ones you could eat. Either the ones you track and shoot yourself or the leftovers from the fireball-flinging Launchbeast.

And yes, they taste like giant chicken. Lemon Herb Wazzan is offered at most restaurants in Chalasa, and a 6 piece order of Wazzan Nuglets weighs about 35 pounds.

Lethosos

Jun 14th, '05, 01:39 PM

I might steal this for ideas for animals in the Empire of the Eight Sages, but it's defintly in competition for giant crabs. :lol:

Tell you what... once I write up an crab idea of mine, I'll submit it for fun.

Jkeown

Jun 14th, '05, 03:51 PM

Competition... you mean as in ecological competition or "competition for your favorite animal" or what? I'm having a bad moment... chemical imbalance or something.

Lethosos

Jun 15th, '05, 08:11 AM

Doesn't matter. I just like the idea of a diamtrya replacing one of my changed animal-folk and want to see if I can't attempt to 'trump' yours. All in good clean fun, of course. :)

Jkeown

Jun 15th, '05, 03:26 PM

Bring on your crab, sir... I've got a teleporting cat that will whip his butt from a "cool critter" standpoint.

felis bamfii :snicker: is the niftiest animal since Dixon's Coconut Crab...

Enforcer84

Jun 16th, '05, 07:10 PM

Very Cool. I love the idea of a bird mount, but I can't see doing one without the "Chocobo" word thrown at me. I thought Lizards too...

Jkeown

Jun 16th, '05, 07:29 PM

Of course... Wazzan are dinosaurs...

"Because the dinosaur tissues didn’t look exactly like pictures published of medullary bone in living birds like chicken and quail, Schweitzer’s team compared the tissue from the femur of the T. rex to that taken from leg bones of more primitive ratites, or flightless birds, such as ostriches and emus. These birds share more features with dinosaurs than other present-day birds. They selected an ostrich and an emu in different stages of their laying cycles, when medullary bone is present."

But that's just my way of seeing the evidence...