JmOz Posted July 2, 2018 Report Share Posted July 2, 2018 Working on a villain team and I need a Scarecrow, but want to avoid the whole "Causes Fear" The team has a cybernetics expert with a bag of tricks A HKA quick scrapper A vicious brick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Cowan Posted July 2, 2018 Report Share Posted July 2, 2018 summons crows and other spies? control plants? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted July 2, 2018 Report Share Posted July 2, 2018 Is literally made out of straw, or can turn himself into a "straw man." Essentially a Metamorph archetype: can bend, twist, or fold himself into various shapes and sizes; can extrude straw to stretch himself. Very hard to hurt -- nothing solid to break from a blow, and penetrating weapons just pass through. Vulnerable to fire, though. BoloOfEarth, wcw43921, Ninja-Bear and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted July 2, 2018 Report Share Posted July 2, 2018 I like LL's idea. I'd include damage reducing or negation. For a bit of fright factor, Damage shield that slowly turns people into scarecrows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JmOz Posted July 2, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2018 That's good LL, I like it, and I could make it demonic in origin (plays up on some stuff I want in the background). Nice idea Bolo, but a little off the mark for the setting... San Corona's version of the monstrous Clayface Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JmOz Posted July 2, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2018 What about something like Scarecrow VAL CHA Cost Roll Notes 15 STR 5 12- HTH Damage 3d6 END [1] 28 DEX 36 15- 10 CON 0 11- 5 INT -5 10- PER Roll 10- 15 EGO 5 12- 20 PRE 10 13- PRE Attack: 4d6 8 OCV 25 8 DCV 25 3 OMCV 0 8 DMCV 15 5 SPD 30 Phases: 3, 5, 8, 10, 12 0 PD -2 0/1 PD (0/1 rPD) 0 ED -2 0/1 ED (0/1 rED) 5 REC 1 30 END 2 8 BODY -2 40 STUN 10 Movement Cost Meters Notes RUNNING 0 12m/24m END [1] SWIMMING 0 4m/8m END [1] LEAPING 0 4m 4m forward, 2m upward Characteristics Total: 153 Cost Powers 22 Regeneration (1 BODY per Week), Resurrection - END=0 3 Resistant Protection (1 PD/1 ED) - END=0 Mystic Golem, all slots Unified Power (-1/4) - END= 20 1) Life Sense: Detect Souls A Class Of Things 13- (Unusual Group), Discriminatory, Sense, Targeting (25 Active Points); Unified Power (-1/4) - END=0 4 2) Magic Sight: Detect A Class Of Things 10- (Unusual Group) (5 Active Points); Unified Power (-1/4) - END=0 48 3) Energy Damage Reduction, Resistant, 75% (60 Active Points); Unified Power (-1/4) - END=0 48 4) Physical Damage Reduction, Resistant, 75% (60 Active Points); Unified Power (-1/4) - END=0 10 5) Stretching 8m, Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (12 Active Points); Unified Power (-1/4) - END=0 16 6) Desolidification (40 Active Points); Does Not Protect Against Damage (-1), Can not pass through solid objects (but can through any opening) (-1/4), Unified Power (-1/4) - END=4 Powers Total: 171 Cost Martial Arts 5 Offensive Strike: 1/2 Phase, -2 OCV, +1 DCV, 8d6 Strike 4 Martial Dodge: 1/2 Phase, -- OCV, +5 DCV, Dodge, Affects All Attacks, Abort 3 Martial Grab: 1/2 Phase, -1 OCV, -1 DCV, Grab Two Limbs, 30 STR for holding on 4 +1 HTH Damage Class(es) Martial Arts Total: 16 Cost Skills 2 AK: Hell 11- 9 +3 with a small group of attacks 1 Acting 8- 1 Climbing 8- 1 Combat Driving 8- 1 Concealment 8- 1 Conversation 8- 1 Deduction 8- 2 KS: Native Legends 11- 1 KS 8- 3 KS: Common Knowledge 10- 4 Language: English (idiomatic) 2 PS 11- 1 Paramedics 8- 1 Persuasion 8- 1 Power 8- 1 Shadowing 8- 1 Stealth 8- 0 TF: Small Motorized Ground Vehicles 1 Teamwork 8- Skills Total: 35 Base Points: 200 Experience: 0 Experience Unspent: 0 Total Character Cost: 375 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 2, 2018 Report Share Posted July 2, 2018 A Golem or undead type that does not stop seems to be viable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted July 2, 2018 Report Share Posted July 2, 2018 A straw body (Desolid) and he fires straw attacks with hidden needles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsatow Posted July 3, 2018 Report Share Posted July 3, 2018 An invisible teleport triggered to block, dodge or dive for cover. I used this for Naruto style ninja. In this case the PC thinks he's hit the scarecrow who explodes into straw parts and reforms hidden from view. If it has a pumpkin head, you could have it create pumpkin head bombs aka from the legend of sleepy hollow. If the head is made of a stuffed bag, you can have a no range attack based on the scarecrow grabbing the victim and having maggots pour out of the eyes and mouth holes onto the character. Even if it doesn't do a lot of damage, the visual description should make the player squirm. You can have it be dismember-able, which results in summoning animated body parts to attack (like the arms flying off to attack the player). Finally, you can give it a burning damage shield only if hit with a burning attack. So someone striking it with lightning would cause it to become inflamed giving it a damage shield. BoloOfEarth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JmOz Posted July 3, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2018 All cool ideas He teams with a Callous Metal Brick, a demented gadgeteer who is looking for a place to belong (with deadly consequences), and a lion... Tom Cowan and FenrisUlf 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninja-Bear Posted July 3, 2018 Report Share Posted July 3, 2018 How about arms that can stretch? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninja-Bear Posted July 3, 2018 Report Share Posted July 3, 2018 7 minutes ago, JmOz said: All cool ideas He teams with a Callous Metal Brick, a demented gadgeteer who is looking for a place to belong (with deadly consequences), and a lion... I see what you did there. ? Wicked! ? JmOz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninja-Bear Posted July 3, 2018 Report Share Posted July 3, 2018 Ooo ooo, How about the scarecrow can summon other lesser scarecrows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demiurgos Posted July 3, 2018 Report Share Posted July 3, 2018 I don't know how useful this would be, but perhaps using scarecrows as Clairsentience with the Fixed Perception Point Limitation for observation? People might think the unexplained appearance of a scarecrow strange, but they wouldn't have any reason to believe it was actually watching them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JmOz Posted July 3, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2018 9 hours ago, Ninja-Bear said: Ooo ooo, How about the scarecrow can summon other lesser scarecrows? That is to close to the gadgeteer (Who summons robotic flying monkeys) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steriaca Posted July 3, 2018 Report Share Posted July 3, 2018 7 minutes ago, JmOz said: That is to close to the gadgeteer (Who summons robotic flying monkeys) Don't forget the little dog too. The one who watches the waves down in Africa.. (Hope someone gets the reference). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JmOz Posted July 3, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2018 Well...it might not be THAT little... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted July 3, 2018 Report Share Posted July 3, 2018 Has an annoying tendency to sing/hum "If I Only Had a Brain". Tom Cowan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsatow Posted July 3, 2018 Report Share Posted July 3, 2018 7 hours ago, Greywind said: Has an annoying tendency to sing/hum "If I Only Had a Brain". How about boatloads of mental defense ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 3, 2018 Report Share Posted July 3, 2018 You could make the Scarecrow name ironic in that the character can stand there and have everyone around him ignore him. One possibility is have the character be a shapeshifter, one that changes into common inanimate objects, and ones that can stand there motionless for extended periods (days or weeks?) which would need some Life Support ability. Heck of a way to infiltrate a facility, coming in as an extra parcel in a shipment. Move around, turn into an extra sheet of paper in the recycle bin when someone comes by; or an extra potted plant in the entryway; or an unclaimed clipboard left behind in a meeting room; and so on. Very handy to have a stealth intruder in a team. Combat capabilities need some creativity to fit them into the context. The mental defense idea would go with a functionally similar power, a mental image projection so that the character looks like something innocuous to humans passing nearby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted July 3, 2018 Report Share Posted July 3, 2018 How about a demented version of the scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz? He didn’t have a brain and wanted to get one. So maybe he could harvest brains from unwilling donors then just shove the brain into his head. If you want to do the actual scarecrow from the movie, maybe his ultimate goal is to figure out how to get the lion, the Tin Man, and the rest of his friends into the real world. As for powers, maybe duplication if he has access to a pile of straw and a transformation ability to turn people into either scarecrows if they are dead ...or into flying monkeys if they are alive (a little trick he picked up from the directional witch of your choice). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JmOz Posted July 4, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 The idea on the team is that Dorothy is a sociopathic killer, but a genius....with an oz fixation, so she gathers her "friends" and is on a killing spree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 He looks like Bruce Boxleitner. dsatow, Mister E, BoloOfEarth and 1 other 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 3 hours ago, JmOz said: The idea on the team is that Dorothy is a sociopathic killer, but a genius....with an oz fixation, so she gathers her "friends" and is on a killing spree A scarecrow who wanted to harvest a superior brain might take a special interest in the cybernetic gadgeteer hero. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JmOz Posted July 4, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 Okay, demon eats brains...I like the idea...Kind of a zombieish thing.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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