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Screamin Demon
post Mar 25 2008, 12:41 AM
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In an upcoming adventure of mine I am having my group of runners lay siege to a corporate facility via forgotten underground tunnels, the ending section of which have quite a negative background count as they run just below laboratories where Cyberzombies reside in hibernation as they are constructed/perfected. Inspired (With very heavy modification) from the ancient module 'First Run' I decided to spice up the passage through the tunnels with a new kind of ghoul, and I wanted to run the stats and general idea by you kind people as my grasp of how the rules play out is still developing.

I am introducing a new kind of ghoul strain, I call it the 'Rak-Kreiger Strain'. Major differences include an increased allergy to sunlight, the further loss of humanity/intelligence, and the mutation of the arms and back encouraging an ape-like gallop as well as a small bonus to grappling due to the pronounced elongation of arms and fingers.

Applying the racial modifications of orks to the standard template of the ghoul, as this colony was once an underground Ork turf, bringing the Body to 10 and the strength to 8. I will also be adjudicating the single magical point they all have to minor toxic shamanhood, Mentor Spirit being Mutation with emphases on beast spirits. This way they can wander about on the astral plane, their bodies dormant untill some powerful magical effect draws their attention.

Their favored mode of assault is to be the overbear, bringing a classic 'sprinting zombie swarm' flavor to the scene. One ghoul tackles an individual and the rest swarm in, all piling on and ripping the poor runner apart. I am attempting to encourage PCs to utilize as little force (Especially magic, as the majority of the Rak-Ghouls <Knights of the Old Republic anyone?> will be in a semi-slumber, ghosting around in astral form) as possible on the way, as almost any attempt to stop and fight these creatures (Rather then drive directly through the wide, but debris strewn tunnels) will result in the Ghouls swarming en-mass. This will also showcase the suppressing fire option of any fully-automatic weapons the party may have, should the excrement strike the wind-propeller.

The major clash will occur after the infiltration as the monsters will attempt to swarm them on their return trip through their tunnels, I intend to only threaten the players with several sets of bounding, glowing eyes from the surrounding darkness, ghastly apparitions gibbering nonsense and other horrific indications that they are possibly surrounded as they journey in towards the wall they are to penetrate with the special solvent provided by the man who hired them.

Comments? Ideas? Rule discrepancies?
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- Screamin Demon   Debugging the Proto-Ghoul   Mar 25 2008, 12:41 AM
- - Siege   I like it - what kind of mix does your party have?...   Mar 25 2008, 01:12 AM
- - Screamin Demon   We have a very blasty human Dark Magic user, a Dw...   Mar 25 2008, 01:57 AM
|- - Chrome Tiger   Oh man, this sounds like a wicked fun little surpr...   Mar 25 2008, 02:07 AM
|- - WearzManySkins   QUOTE (Screamin Demon @ Mar 24 2008, 08:5...   Mar 25 2008, 02:22 AM
- - Siege   Sounds more like a colony of trolls, possibly...wh...   Mar 25 2008, 02:15 AM
- - Siege   5 nuyen says they will after the next game session...   Mar 25 2008, 02:24 AM
- - WearzManySkins   3+ Full Auto Shotguns firing flechettes against a ...   Mar 25 2008, 02:33 AM
- - DocTaotsu   Obscure movie quote of the day: Blue Monkey! ...   Mar 25 2008, 03:13 AM
|- - Siege   QUOTE (DocTaotsu @ Mar 25 2008, 03:13 AM)...   Mar 25 2008, 03:38 AM
|- - Screamin Demon   QUOTE (DocTaotsu @ Mar 25 2008, 03:13 AM)...   Mar 25 2008, 05:34 AM
- - Whipstitch   I'd love full auto shotguns if it weren't ...   Mar 25 2008, 03:19 AM
- - DocTaotsu   Sure, gel rounds or stick and shock but they gotta...   Mar 25 2008, 03:57 AM
- - DocTaotsu   Damn, double post.   Mar 25 2008, 03:57 AM
- - Shrike30   Tunnels are where full auto and grenades really, t...   Mar 25 2008, 06:54 AM
|- - Chrome Tiger   QUOTE (Shrike30 @ Mar 25 2008, 01:54 AM) ...   Mar 25 2008, 11:34 AM
- - DocTaotsu   This is why you actually spend karma to buy up you...   Mar 25 2008, 11:48 AM
- - Fleming   Well, penetration would work both ways (literally)...   Mar 25 2008, 11:58 AM
- - DocTaotsu   Hm... true true, it might cause more trouble than ...   Mar 25 2008, 12:03 PM
- - Fleming   Well, I think there's rules for shooting into ...   Mar 25 2008, 12:08 PM
- - Drogos   Depending on how apelike you want to make them, I ...   Mar 25 2008, 12:08 PM
- - DocTaotsu   Whoa... let us not speak about drop... things in t...   Mar 25 2008, 12:19 PM
|- - Grinder   QUOTE (DocTaotsu @ Mar 25 2008, 01:19 PM)...   Mar 25 2008, 10:57 PM
|- - Fortune   QUOTE (Grinder @ Mar 26 2008, 09:57 AM) R...   Mar 26 2008, 12:21 AM
|- - Grinder   QUOTE (Fortune @ Mar 26 2008, 01:21 AM) T...   Mar 26 2008, 08:59 AM
- - Screamin Demon   ...Didn't you buy your Drop Bear repellent? ...   Mar 25 2008, 12:30 PM
- - Fuchs   In SR3, we've had a fan-made piece of gear nam...   Mar 25 2008, 12:37 PM
|- - Roadspike   QUOTE (Fuchs @ Mar 25 2008, 05:37 AM) In ...   Mar 25 2008, 04:17 PM
- - DocTaotsu   I did but it smells suspiciously like eucalyptus l...   Mar 25 2008, 01:04 PM
- - Shrike30   I've got a character who drags one of those ar...   Mar 25 2008, 08:37 PM
- - Siege   I'm a fan of the drop-ghoul tactic (death from...   Mar 25 2008, 09:45 PM
|- - b1ffov3rfl0w   QUOTE (Siege @ Mar 25 2008, 05:45 PM) I...   Mar 25 2008, 09:58 PM
|- - Siege   QUOTE (b1ffov3rfl0w @ Mar 25 2008, 10:58 ...   Mar 25 2008, 10:03 PM
- - Jhaiisiin   With regards to penetration of rounds and squishy ...   Mar 25 2008, 11:12 PM
- - DocTaotsu   But those eyes... they BURN INTO MY MIND!...   Mar 25 2008, 11:38 PM
|- - Grinder   QUOTE (DocTaotsu @ Mar 26 2008, 12:38 AM)...   Mar 26 2008, 08:59 AM
- - Siege   SANITY CHECK! ...Crap. That's bad, right...   Mar 26 2008, 01:31 AM
- - Serial_Peacemaker   Well the usual answer to Ghouls is to astrally pro...   Mar 26 2008, 09:18 AM
- - DocTaotsu   *runs up the stairs to the second story... and tha...   Mar 26 2008, 10:03 AM


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