Marcus Impudite

Since common criminals are subject to Sturgeon's Law the same as anyone and anything else, they usually get low INT and EGO unless they're supposed to be more competent, with 8 or 9 being the highest among all but the really brainy criminals. The typical stats for a street lowlife in my games (5th ED): STR: 15 DEX: 15 CON: 15 BODY: 10 INT: 7 EGO: 7 PRE: 13 COM: 8 PD: 4 ED: 4 SPD: 3 REC: 6 END: 30 STUN: 30 Running: 6"/12" Leaping: 3"/6" Swimming: 2"/4" Skills CK: Campaign City 8- KS: Criminal Underworld 11- Streetwise 12- WF: Small Arms, Blades Disads Hunted: law enforcement 8- Social Limitation: Criminal Record and/or Parole Restrictions

Funny, when I come across a 6th ed write up, I usually give it a glance and then I move on. There may be the occasional exception to that rule, but those exceptions have to be pretty damned exceptional. As I've stated before: I'm strictly 5th Edition, that's what I play, and that's what I post; and unless 7th Edition proves to be just awesome beyond all possible description (assuming it ever does come out), that's not going to change. If that makes me "That Guy" to some, so be it.

Assuming one or more members of your group are the Adventure Archaeologist type, the PCs are in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt where the entrance to what is believed to be a lost tomb has been unearthed deep in the desert. While exploring the tomb, your character and the others pass through a corridor with alcoves carved into the walls on either side. Mummies appear to be on display in twenty of these alcoves, though curiously there are no markings to indicate who any of them are. That's when something unbelievable happens: the mummies' wrappings seen to come to life! A bandage grabs your character around the ankle, but he/she manages to tear/cut it off and run for it. As your entire group is running for the exit, the entire corridor behind you is filled with a swarm of writhing, tendril-like bandages chasing after you; and by now, it's fairly clear what will happen if they catch you... WWYCD?

Dangerous Criminal Minds. With Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise as the opening theme.

Never interrupt your nemesis when they are about to make a mistake; doubly so when they're about to make a lethal mistake.

LOL. To be sure, I've had winter mornings where I've had to chisel an thick sheath of ice off my vehicle before I could get underway. And they say Hell never freezes over...

As stated in the opening post, if you use this monster in your games anytime soon, please let me know how your players handled it (i.e., did they manage to defeat it/escape from it or are they now permanent residents of the tomb it was guarding?).

We're all familiar, through the Mad Max franchise and others, with the idea of a post-apocalyptic world where all or most of the planet is a scorching hot desert environment. How about a one-eighty on that concept: how about a winter wasteland? The idea is the planet is in a new ice age and even setting foot outside requires you to either be physiologically adapted to intense cold or put on full cold weather gear like an Eskimo. Perils could include raging snow and ice storms, attacks by mutant polar bears, etc.

After giving it some more thought, I recently did a revised version of the bandage monster: Magically-Animated Bandages.pdf

Scary Christmas To All, And To All A Good Fright... [insert Evil Laugh Here]

A disgraced former cop and a convicted rapist? You know they're going to put him in segregation, because the boys in General Pop would eat him for breakfast the very first day.

Warning: This one's really gross and disturbing. Do not open the spoiler below if you are easily squicked out or are eating a meal at the moment.

Don't most of them use VPNs and proxies? Oh wait, wrong kind of troll.

(Happy Thanksgiving to all WWYCD readers) Once again, it's Thanksgiving Day. People are preparing their yearly feast, which will be immediately be followed up by watching football and lapsing into tryptophan-induced comas on their couches. But suddenly, the Earth shakes like something big is headed for Campaign City. Sure enough, your character sees none other than Gobble-Tron, a giant mecha in the shape of a turkey, appear on the horizon. Ports open all over Gobble-Tron's form, revealing an array of missiles and various other weapons of mass destruction. Who might be piloting this somewhat goofy-looking death machine is, as of yet, unknown. WWYCD?

I recently listen to your broadcasts and they sound pretty good. I like the personality you give your anchorman.

A hypothetical superteam is in possession of a ray device that can banish targets to a Phantom Zone, one of their members was one of only a few surviving members of the extraterrestrial civilization that created the device and the zone. Long ago, the founding members of the group made an agreement that the "Phantom Zone Gun" would be kept in a safe and not be used except against the "big fish." (i.e., those menaces so horrifyingly powerful and destructive that Earthly authorities stood absolutely no chance in Hell of being able to handle them) Any evil-doers who weren't at that power level would, of course, be handed over to whichever agency was most appropriate and the courts would decide their fate. Would the team have to keep the device a secret or would the world at large be okay with them having the device as long as they stuck to their above rule and weren't banishing people to the Phantom Zone willy-nilly? What say you, Herodom-Assembled?

Q: Describe the Walt Disney corperation in 10 words or less? A: She was last seen being dragged away by an orcish biker gang.

Q: Why on Earth would the Coca Cola company stop putting fruit flavors in their soft drinks? A: Most likely the same time they finally green-light "Spaceballs 2: The Search For More Money."

That reminds me of the following:

Update to Star Bright above.

Perhaps, though I doubt the fact that they ventilated an innocent 6-year-old child will win them very many points with any jury (provided it goes to a jury trial). Plus there's the fact that they're behind bars right now instead of enjoying a paid vacation. I'm not going to jinx it by saying it's a sure thing, but this one sort of looks like justice might be done... for a change.

An NPC Superheroine I recently created. (UPDATED 11/16/2015: added some more to the Plot Seeds Section.) STAR BRIGHT.pdf

So Stafford and Greenhouse been thrown in the slammer and their bail is set at a cool million each? Unexpected, but promising.

And the two sh*theads who shot the rancher get a paid vacation while their buddies at the department play CYA for them. Just lovely.

Though it might be amusing to watch some cop try to be Billy Badass and end up chucking himself in the twig and berries...