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Trencher

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    Trencher reacted to Cygnia in Funny Pics II: The Revenge   
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    Trencher reacted to death tribble in Supers Image game   
    Step back in time of the threads for this offering.
     

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    Trencher reacted to BoloOfEarth in Supers Image game   
    How about this one?
     

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    Trencher reacted to death tribble in Supers Image game   
    Kicking off the New Year with this.
     
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    How about this one? 
     

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    Trencher reacted to death tribble in Supers Image game   
    ok.
     
    Tell me about this.
     

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    Trencher reacted to death tribble in Supers Image game   
    Alright Pattern Ghost, how about this ?
     
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    Trencher reacted to death tribble in Supers Image game   
    You want a picture ?
     
    Look no further than the Tribble, yes this Tribble.
     
     

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    Trencher reacted to GoldenAge in Supers Image game   
    here's one:
     

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    Trencher reacted to The Weapon in Supers Image game   
    Well hate to win by default but here it is.
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    Trencher got a reaction from massey in The stench of death.   
    I never google anything that sounds vaguely Japanese but thanks for the info.
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    Trencher reacted to Old Man in Hero Does It Better   
    The other thing that Hero does better is defining and balancing game effects.  If you want to create a new spell in Hero you choose the appropriate power and advantages/limitations, and it comes out balanced (more or less).  If you want to create a spell in D&D, uh, write something.  If you want to create a new monster in Hero you build it more or less like a character, and the CP total in the end will give some idea of how dangerous it is.  If you want to create a monster in D&D, well, write something.
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    Trencher reacted to Duke Bushido in Hero Does It Better   
    I had a roommate in the eighties.....
     
    As noted before, I never was (and have never become) a comic book guy, but I had a roommate who was (one of the guys I game with at the time, actually).  I remember during the eighties there was some sort of crossover event in comic books where they were wiping out entire universes wholesale-- billions of trillions of people killed off--
     
    Just so they could straighten out the plots and writing staff.
     
    Talk about hardcore.
     
    Beat that, Lord of Most of the Planet Lived!
     
     
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    Trencher reacted to BoloOfEarth in Hero Does It Better   
    I remember a conversation with a hobby store employee back in the late 1980s or early 90s, where he proclaimed that GURPS was better than Hero specifically because "it's too hard to kill a player character in Hero."  My own opinion was that this was actually a good thing, not a bad thing.  (I later learned that this person was a very adversarial GM -- you know, the guy with a Mary Sue GM-PC to show up the PCs -- along with other obnoxiousness.)
     
    That said, as GM I've accidentally killed a superhero PC (due to a design flaw in the PC's defenses and other powers), and had to go out of my way to keep other PCs (trained normals, not supers) from getting slaughtered.
     
    I'll admit that way back in my early days of D&D gaming, my characters were all cookie-cutter 2D cutouts who existed mainly for churning through dungeon crawls to pick up cool magic items.  If one died, another was quickly rolled up and took his place without blinking an eye.
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    Trencher reacted to bubba smith in The stench of death.   
    a presence attack ??
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    Trencher reacted to Lucius in The stench of death.   
    Change Environment, make CON or EGO roll at -X or lost phase retching, make roll every phase.
     
    Lucius Alexander
     
    The palindromedary says perhaps a CON roll to avoid retching, and an EGO roll to avoid moving away from the smell
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    Trencher reacted to Badger in The stench of death.   
    Well, I have always wondered:  How can a zombie sneak up on someone?
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    Trencher reacted to Cancer in The stench of death.   
    At night, from downwind, in a howling storm.
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    Trencher reacted to mallet in The stench of death.   
    I never "ruled" it all out, but I did something similar in one of my recent campaigns. 
     
    Players had to go into the sewers (which would be disgusting normally) but these ones also had a lot of dead and rotting animals in them. I had them make a EGO check at -2 and if they succeeded then no issues, but if they failed they received a  -1 penalty to all rolls/checks/OCV & DCV for every point they missed their CON roll by. This lasted for a set time, then slowly reduced as they we forced to get used to the smell. 
     
    It was more for effect and atmosphere, as by the time they reached the big bad at the end, enough time had passed that even the character the rolled the worst had still recovered to normal. Still it made things interesting for some of the earlier encounters and surprisingly enough the Players seemed to be okay with it, as it made it a bit more interesting/fun/challenging then the usual dungeon crawls of Fantasy games.  
     
    After they got out of the sewers I also made them all make CON checks to see if they got ill or any infections from the time spent down there. It was normal CON check, but -1 for every 3 Points of BODY damage the Character had received in the sewers (unless that damage was magically healed already). That was something the Players didn't so much like, even though only one of them got sick and it didn't take long for them to get cured. 
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    Trencher reacted to Scott Ruggels in In Need of Some Examples and Recommendations   
    Oh I expect some package deals to cost something, depending, but some may be nearly zero points and paid for by disads and stat modifications, I am defiantly breaking out anatomical packages, from cultural and professional packages. In my opinion, of being a human is free, then beings something else is mostly free as well, but I have to get into actually constructing the packages to see what the costs actually are. Unlike drawing, character building in Hero was never my strong suit. (And if 6ed is a requirement, I will definitely need outside assistance, as I do not Know it. )
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    Trencher reacted to bigbywolfe in In Need of Some Examples and Recommendations   
    Package Deals (Templates in 6E) aren't free, you pay points for them so there is no "bonus" that isn't being paid for.
    Unless this product is for a REALLY old edition.
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    Trencher reacted to Scott Ruggels in In Need of Some Examples and Recommendations   
    I will have to find a copy of Mythic Raced, your get a feeling it’s n how they write thing up. As for the package bonus,I disagree. For me, they serve as a template, giving members of that race a common baseline, and the bonus works well for a mathtarded GM like me.  
     
     
     
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