Angelalex242 Posted November 29, 2008 Report Share Posted November 29, 2008 Has Santa been built? Consider he'd need the following: Enough duplication powers to make every Mall Santa really Santa. Detection skills, knowledge skills, telepathy, and so on (He knows when you are sleeping, he knows if you're awake, he knows if you've been bad or good) Lastly, he has to deliver presents to 1/3 of all mankind (Roughly 2 billion people) in a 24 hour period. Basically, every Christian household can expect a visit, but not Jews, Hindus, or Muslims. He therefore has to be able to tell which families practice what religion. And in mixed religion households, he has to give presents/coal only to the right people. He needs a base for the North Pole factory (which must be able to make toys for 2 billion people, followers (For the toymaking elves) more followers (For the 9 reindeer), and a vehicle (the sleigh, which must be able to hold toys for 2 billion people...). Lastly, he need ridiculous speed reading and eidetic memory so he can remember what everyone wanted for Christmas. And most importantly, Santa is recession proof Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Mackinder Posted November 29, 2008 Report Share Posted November 29, 2008 Re: Santa Claus How about some kind of 'Change Environment' power with a HUGE (as in planet-wide) area effect? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrestlinggeek Posted November 29, 2008 Report Share Posted November 29, 2008 Re: Santa Claus In every game I've ever run, Santa is real. He is also a GM fiat. I've never bothered to write him up, it just didn't seem necessary. The toy factory is actually in another dimension, the portal to which is at the North Pole, and is only open once a year, for 24 hours. 12:00 am (GMT) Dec 25th to 12:00 am (GMT) Dec 26th. Of course, since the sleigh is outside the time stream while in motion, Santa can take as long as he needs to deliver all the toys. For him, the job actually takes a few weeks; but since he is outside of time for most of it, it's one night to us. Oh, and the toys actually stay at the factory until he reaches into his sack and pulls them out. The sack is a secondary, one-way access to his home dimension. You can take things out, but not put things in. Oh, and it's not just Christian houses he dilevers to. He also visits those who celebrate the secular version of Christmas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelalex242 Posted November 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2008 Re: Santa Claus Adding secular houses adds another half to .75 billion people he delivers to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrestlinggeek Posted November 29, 2008 Report Share Posted November 29, 2008 Re: Santa Claus Adding secular houses adds another half to .75 billion people he delivers to. Yeah, he's a busy guy. Good thing he's a powerful magical being. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egyptoid Posted November 29, 2008 Report Share Posted November 29, 2008 Re: Santa Claus Enough duplication powers to make every Mall Santa really Santa. IMHO, buy enough Clairsentience, such that anyone wearing a Santa costume was a valid node for him to spy through.... plus.... wonderfull competent followers: Mrs. Claus and the Magic Reindeer need (OAF Popcorn Fuel) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted November 29, 2008 Report Share Posted November 29, 2008 Re: Santa Claus Give him the ability to stop time of everything around him except him and the reindeer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narratio Posted November 30, 2008 Report Share Posted November 30, 2008 Re: Santa Claus I agree with the followers concept. With enough followers you don't need the eiditic memory, speed reading etc. Just a lot of clerks recording information gathered from devices located in, say post boxes, charity boxes or the XMAS shopping mall Santa's Cave or Grotto... possibly infiltration of IRS records as well. People whjo donate to charities usually can get a write-off on taxes. Given enough followers it's all just record keeping, and if they're in another dimension, that just makes it easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted November 30, 2008 Report Share Posted November 30, 2008 Re: Santa Claus Yes, Santa has been built. He's let himself go a bit since then, though. Check out the posts and links on this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psybolt Posted November 30, 2008 Report Share Posted November 30, 2008 Re: Santa Claus This thread makes me think of Duplicate Santa from the Tick Animated Series. Santa appeared on that episode and they portreyed him as a compulsive gift giver. That was funny. Maybe a psych lim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thia Halmades Posted November 30, 2008 Report Share Posted November 30, 2008 Re: Santa Claus Yer... it's far simpler to assume that on Christmas Eve (whatever that means to everyone else) he throws a major transform to affect the whole world; World Without Presents Appropriate to the Holiday to World With Presents Appropriate to the Holiday. On my planet, Santa is non-denominational. I was raised a Jew & a Christian, and I've always gotten presents from Santa. Fastest solution? Major Transform with more dice than you can reasonably calculate. More accurate? Extra time, 1 year (as soon as the Transform executes, Santa begins preparations for next year). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armitage Posted November 30, 2008 Report Share Posted November 30, 2008 Re: Santa Claus Santa was written up in Adventurer's Club #22. "The Fright Before Christmas", by Scott Heine. It's a short scenario building on the events of "To Serve and Protect". Santa falls under the influence of Coatlicue's Skull Pendant and becomes Dark Santa, complete with a suit of elf-built battle armor to replace his magic, which only works for good and healing. He had Duplication as a Plot Device power. 500 million identical duplicates, Invisible Power Effects, Usable Against 8 reindeer, toys and sleigh, Usable only on Christmas Eve. According to the author, it came to more points than his calculator could handle with 4th Edition Duplication. It would be a lot less under 5th Edition rules (+145 points for doubling). He also had 1000 75-point elf Followers, Filthy Rich, 300 points for Base and Vehicle (North Pole and Sleigh), Eidetic Memory, Luck, Universal Translator, Animal Handler (reindeer), Climbing, Conversation, Inventor, Navigation, Sleight of Hand, KS: World Geography, Healing, Mental Defense, Short-range Flight (rising up the chimney), Clairsentient sight and hearing and Detect Naughty/Nice both with x1000000 range, Desolidification, and LS: Aging. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egyptoid Posted December 2, 2008 Report Share Posted December 2, 2008 Re: Santa Claus where the heck is Sean Waters? he can do the EDM-based Santa build on the cheap... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 Re: Santa Claus In the spirit of the season -- and the Champions forum -- I give you... SUPER SANTA! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troughton Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Re: Santa Claus Santa the Super villain For a different take on Santa Claus I present Claus Degraf (I might not be remembering his last name correctly) from a humorous fantasy novel by Tom Holt Grail blazers. The plot involves a resurrected Arthurian knight trying to find the Holy Grail and battling the queen of Atlantis (who is Claus’s Ex-wife) and Santa Claus. Anyway Claus is a Former god (who lost his divine status when he lost his followers.) who became a philosopher in the Middle East. He became known as a Wiseman, and he and three of his buddies became known as the four Wise men, but one day after a bright star appeared in the sky, which the other wise guys insisted didn’t mean anything he became a victim of both a joke from his three buddies and heaven. Claus followed the other three to a manger not knowing why they were going there. But lo in the manger the messiah had been born. And the other wise men gave the child precious gifts Claus was mortified as he had nothing but his laundry and when it was his turn he offered the Christ child a pair of stockings. He glared at the three wise men who were trying not to break out laughing. After this he received a visit from an angel who returned the stockings to him and informed him from this time on he must deliver presents on the day that mankind celebrates the birth of the savior. So now Claus is cursed to fly around the world on Christmas time and bring presents to the good children of the world while trying to find a way to break Heaven’s Curse. Claus is angry and hates being Santa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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