Okay, here is a home for silly critters and other animal related weirdness...
Two of my own
Rodent of Unusual Size (Princess Bride)
Thought to be a relation of the devil rat, this large creature could also be peculiar SURGEd human... Probably the least dangerous para-rat known, however they tend to live in very dangerous environments favoring marshy areas with regular outlets of natural gas and quicksand.
Rasberry Dogs
the canine analogue to the Blackberry Cat. It seems to possess an ability to always be blamed for any "biological aroma" arising from people within sight of it.
Full Version: Paracritter silly time.
Graboids
These large, slug-like creatures only enjoy eating people who live in shithole small towns in the deserts of Nevada.
These large, slug-like creatures only enjoy eating people who live in shithole small towns in the deserts of Nevada.
...the Alien: Aliens, Aliens II (the only two worth watching)
...one nasty horrific nearly unstoppable critter. Apparently can survive in a vacuum (as it did when it attempts to crawl back into the Nostotmo's shuttle boat via the engines at theend of the fist film). Definitely immune to "normal" weapons heck even the exhaust of the shuttle engines didn't destroy it.
...and how can we ignore Space Herpes? Ice Pirates
...imagine ZO getting infested with these nearly unstoppable critters.
...one nasty horrific nearly unstoppable critter. Apparently can survive in a vacuum (as it did when it attempts to crawl back into the Nostotmo's shuttle boat via the engines at theend of the fist film). Definitely immune to "normal" weapons heck even the exhaust of the shuttle engines didn't destroy it.
...and how can we ignore Space Herpes? Ice Pirates
...imagine ZO getting infested with these nearly unstoppable critters.
I'd lean more towards giving Aliens hardened armor and immunity to enviromental effects, personally. The space marines fared alright against the aliens once they threw caution into the wind and started using the Alien universe equivalent of Ex-Ex ammo. Definitely nasty, freakish buggers though, and I'd definitely consider them to have multiple initiative passes and a ridiculous infiltration pool.
Waldo
this critter has a reversed chameleon power: everywhere it goes, the surrounding terrain starts to look more like it. also, it has the influence power, which it can only use to compel you to look for it.
this critter has a reversed chameleon power: everywhere it goes, the surrounding terrain starts to look more like it. also, it has the influence power, which it can only use to compel you to look for it.
| QUOTE (Kyoto Kid) |
| ...and how can we ignore Space Herpes? Ice Pirates |
Ah Ice Pirates, easily the worst film I've ever seen half of, then screamed and attempted to tear my own eyes oout before my friends switched it off....
Um on topic...
Tigger
An awakened cat with lots of great leap.
Calvin is also an awakened great cat, and only visible to dual-natured and astrally perceiving entities. Capable of springing from ambush with a Knockdown attack, specialization in attacking victims as they cross doorways.
Getting the obligatory Holy Grail monster out of the way: the Vorpal Rabbit. 4 IPs and specialization in called shot vs neck.
Going as classic as I can, how about King Kong? I haven't yet seen much in SR4 about handling scale range besides the differences between trolls and other metahumans; if trolls get +1 Reach, then I imagine dragons get more. Anyways, the relevant aspect is that a business brings KK into a major city for purposes of entertainment revenue. Godzilla has sometimes been played for ecology and/or technology ethics (awakened and/or empowered by nuclear energy, and the scientist's dilemma in the original movie).
There have been writeups of Aliens in game terms since shortly after the first movie; as for defenses, there's a scene in "Aliens" in which a soldier blasts an alien with a shotgun, and anything you can kill with a shotgun lacks hardened armor. We don't know how *long* they can survive vacuum, either (and AFAIK we mercifully don't yet have hard evidence about humans on that topic; fictional accounts vary greatly). Also, we've mostly seen it acting against humans who were divided among themselves, one way or another. A womp rat coulda killed the crew of the Nostromo as long as one of the crew was secretly working towards that goal. The corrosive blood is a nasty factor.
Write-ups of Terminator vary, especially the "liquid metal" ones. The T-X would have lotsa hacking capacities, and its "nanobots" allow some control of non-Matrix-connected devices. The role of Cyberdyne Corp is classic cyberpunk, and so is John Connor going "off the grid". (The role of a gynoid in hottie form is also not unknown in cyberpunk. "Are you Katherine Brewster? *licks finger* No." Ah, bad girls.)
Virtual Tribbles (Star Trek)
Virtual Tribbles is a rating 1 self replicating virus/agent, perhaps the actual cause of Crash 2.0.
Virtual Tribbles is a rating 1 self replicating virus/agent, perhaps the actual cause of Crash 2.0.
| QUOTE (Riley37) |
| Calvin is also an awakened great cat, and only visible to dual-natured and astrally perceiving entities. Capable of springing from ambush with a Knockdown attack, specialization in attacking victims as they cross doorways. |
...umm, Hobbes is the stuffed tiger, Calvin is the boy, if this is what I think you are referencing.
Corbormites (Star Trek)
Corbormites act as Star Trek's version of Gremlins; sometimes causing critial sytems to fail at the most inopportune times. Equal to the Tribbles virus.
Corbormites act as Star Trek's version of Gremlins; sometimes causing critial sytems to fail at the most inopportune times. Equal to the Tribbles virus.
I would tend to think that Hobbes is a free spirit inhabiting a stuffed toy.
...I would agree with that observation.
Who doesn't?
Plot Device Mouse (Too many references to count)
This small, furry para creature cannot be harmed, captured (for any long length of time), or displaced from where it is found. Any attempts to harm/capture/displace it will fail, humorously or catastrophically. Persons who attempt to do any of these things will continue trying, becoming an extremely unhealthy obsession.
This small, furry para creature cannot be harmed, captured (for any long length of time), or displaced from where it is found. Any attempts to harm/capture/displace it will fail, humorously or catastrophically. Persons who attempt to do any of these things will continue trying, becoming an extremely unhealthy obsession.
| QUOTE (Riley37) |
| there's a scene in "Aliens" in which a soldier blasts an alien with a shotgun, and anything you can kill with a shotgun lacks hardened armor. |
Perhaps merely modeling them as having ballistic/impact armor, and either a larger damage meter or an ability to ignore damage penalties (similar to pain resistance or damage compensators)? They still seemed to get blown apart by weapons-fire, it's just that they had very little sense of self-preservation and a tendency to keep trying to kill you even after being mortally wounded.
Trolls (with large Body attributes) tend to resist damage. The aliens seemed fragile by comparison. I'd probably only give them a body of ~4 (though with absurd initiative, agility, and stength), and some levels of armoring (a la orthoskin). So, you might not hurt them with a light pistol, but a heavy would likely be fairly effective, and automatic weapons fire would likely still do some significant damage. (Though ... with enough penalty-ignoring, you'd have to put a fair bit more lead into them before *noticing* the effects.)
Kuroneko (Trigun)
A paranormal black cat of Japanese origin, a kuroneko will attach itself to an individual, appearing randomly in the vicinity the individual, often in unusual ways (like falling out of the sky onto to the character's head). If else notices the Kuroneko at all, they will momentarily confuse it with the character. After being spotted the kuroneko will utter a single nyaa before disappearing.
A paranormal black cat of Japanese origin, a kuroneko will attach itself to an individual, appearing randomly in the vicinity the individual, often in unusual ways (like falling out of the sky onto to the character's head). If else notices the Kuroneko at all, they will momentarily confuse it with the character. After being spotted the kuroneko will utter a single nyaa before disappearing.
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