 Killing a Dragon, Let's drudge up this old gem... |
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 Dec 6 2005, 10:20 AM
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Running Target  Group: Members Posts: 1,283 Joined: 17-May 05 Member No.: 7,398  |
All I can remember about Warrior adepts was that they could turn their skin into bark at Circle 1, and they were good at fighting.
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Dec 6 2005, 11:52 AM
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
Absolutely. ED was near the high peak of the magic flow, so the adepts/spellcasters wher able to do things and develop talents/spells that are impossible in the 6th world (but will be one day, when the magic flow is high enough). Just think of spells like "city in a bottle" or "call forth the army of decay" or random talents above 10th circle.
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Dec 6 2005, 12:02 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 934 Joined: 26-August 05 From: Earth - Europe - AGS - Norddeutscher Bund - Hannover Member No.: 7,624 |
Oh yes. My group's players always cry out in pain when they remember the end of our Barsaive at War campaign. My Nethermancer used the situation to his absolute benefit. ^^ First I arranged the battle at sky point to cause massive numbers of unnecessary deaths. And after that I used my freshly summoned army of decay to support queen Twiceborn and her horror masters, turning Barsaive from Skypoint to Throal in a kingdom of the dead. :)
Dragons live in a much safer world by now. |
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Dec 6 2005, 12:05 PM
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
That comes close to our nethermancer's wet dream. Luckily he was killed by a theran cavalry charge some months before the battle of Triumph. ;)
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Dec 6 2005, 12:32 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,328 Joined: 28-November 05 From: Zuerich Member No.: 8,014 |
I played ED. Compared to modern contemporary weapons of mass destruction - not some AA missile - those are small fry.
120mm MBT cannon shooting penetrators or HEAT. A tanker full of home-made explosives, Oklahoma-Style. A passenger/freight airliner with a full tank on a collision course with a building. Augmented with explosives if neccessary. FAE bombs. Thor Shots. Tac-Nukes. Strategic Nukes. Nanoviruses and similar bio/chemical agents. IMHO, Earthdawn simply doesn't compare. Nice stuff for fantasy adventures pitting heroes against the big bad monsters - but limited by the typical fantasy conventions which allow Big Bad Monsters at all. (hyperbole) Want to get rid of Dragons? "Discover" that Dragon heart/brain enhances potency. Dragons will show up on endangered species lists faster than rich people all over the world can call their favorite suppliers (/hyperbole) |
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Dec 6 2005, 12:41 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 934 Joined: 26-August 05 From: Earth - Europe - AGS - Norddeutscher Bund - Hannover Member No.: 7,624 |
Dragon parts are of much greater worth, because they are sought for as components for enchanting.
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Dec 6 2005, 01:21 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 908 Joined: 31-March 05 From: Georgia Member No.: 7,270 |
yeah but how many people can do enchanting vs. how many people want a stronger... err... organ.
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Dec 6 2005, 02:28 PM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
When it comes to increasing potency it is cheaper, easier, and safer just to bathe in some radioactive waste.
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Dec 6 2005, 04:14 PM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
Yeah, but woulden't a penile enhancer that could (authentically) label itself with the face of a Great Dragon be worth even more to rich impotents who're too stupid to get a Mr. Studd?
"Power of Loftwyr!" |
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Dec 6 2005, 06:49 PM
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Resident Legionnaire Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,136 Joined: 8-August 04 From: Usually Work Member No.: 6,550 |
Hate to derail, but does anybody have a guess at the essence cost of a Mr. Studd?
I told my player it was 5.9...it is afterall, his manhood he's replacing. |
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Dec 6 2005, 07:09 PM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
It would depend on how far he goes. The basic model is probably just an inflatable plastic tube installed under the skin and a DNI hydrolic pump to inflate and deflate it. I'd say between .2 and .4 The full bioware replacement with geneticly altered gonads would be closer to .8 or 1 bioindex. The latter has the advantage that women can get them too. If SURGE and surgery an give us catgirls we might as well get futanari too. |
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Dec 6 2005, 11:44 PM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
Futa! W00t! *snickers.* So, now here's the question. If you can get it by bioware for .8 or 1 index, what does that SURGE cost in build points? Or is it a Flaw? |
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Dec 6 2005, 11:52 PM
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Resident Legionnaire Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,136 Joined: 8-August 04 From: Usually Work Member No.: 6,550 |
well again, I think we'd have to say that depends on how far he takes it. :rotfl: |
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Dec 7 2005, 12:02 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
*smacks forehead against workdesk... repeatedly*
Oh boy, the thread is going into that direction again... :rotfl: |
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Dec 7 2005, 12:32 AM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
Well, I've seen some that by rights should impose a clumsiness penalty to doing athletics... Pretty much anything by BehindMoon Q springs to mind. :P |
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Dec 7 2005, 12:33 AM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
You know, it just hit me... Why not just make it a chargen SURGE choice that dosen't cost BP. Because it's neither flaw nor edge, just a combinant of gender.
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Dec 7 2005, 12:39 AM
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Resident Legionnaire Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,136 Joined: 8-August 04 From: Usually Work Member No.: 6,550 |
I had a player take a 1 point flaw for a tiny one, came up with the idea himself of all things too.
Then of course, everybody starts asking about the "edge" version.... |
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Dec 7 2005, 01:53 AM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
The Edge version? That'd be worth the BP.
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Dec 7 2005, 08:03 AM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
The edge version would be the same but involves the character's girlfriend goblinizing into a windling.
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Dec 7 2005, 01:18 PM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
Windling?
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Dec 7 2005, 01:24 PM
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Freelance Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 7,324 Joined: 30-September 04 From: Texas Member No.: 6,714 |
Earthdawn reference. You'd love 'em.
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Dec 7 2005, 01:26 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 934 Joined: 26-August 05 From: Earth - Europe - AGS - Norddeutscher Bund - Hannover Member No.: 7,624 |
Really small ( 50 cm) elves with butterfly wings. Annoying little pests if you ask me. Playing stupid pranks half the time. One of the metahuman / namegiver races that didn't return on a large scale, possibly because the magic level is still too low for them. Like T'skrang or Obsidimen. Though a few of them show up in Great Britain, as far as I know. |
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Dec 7 2005, 01:40 PM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
Man, they sound funny. If you can inflict them on your opposition. :P
Still, all you'd need is a light dusting of FAB III to handle that pest problem, assuming they're Dual-Natured. |
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Dec 7 2005, 01:44 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 934 Joined: 26-August 05 From: Earth - Europe - AGS - Norddeutscher Bund - Hannover Member No.: 7,624 |
No, they are not. They have natural vision to astral space, though. But not permanent.
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Dec 7 2005, 01:54 PM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
Well, damn. That sucks.
However, we can be sure of one thing. A 50 cm tall creature is going to be extremely vulnerable to the smog and stuff that makes humans want to buy respirators for when they want to go outside. So you won't have to worry about them in the sprawl. :P |
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