Antarctica Bestiary
Kobolds
Stats as
B/X
Perversion
of the Fairy magic of the western peninsula, wild gardens made laboratories of
malice.
Rootstock
and creeper vines are cultivated, passed between would-be conquerors and
gibbering sorcerers. The gourds grow fat and meaty, fed by blood, a deer a week
or a cow a month. After one summer with light and one winter with blood, they
ripen into horde of monsters.
Knobby is
their appearance and cunning is their hate. For they despise the gnomish peasantry
which cultivate the gourds. Cruel lords and sorcerers use them as guards,
raiders and waves to overthrow legitimate heirs. After a few years, their seed-bearing
chieftains take root, cascading advancement among them.
Someone on
a Discord asked how would you increase the power level of Wolves Upon the Coast.
And I said I would compile the options together.
-
Get
+1 Attack and +1 HD per boast/oath/cash minimum
-
More
Outlandish Boasts:
Each boast
is +1 HD and attack and every 3 boasts you get another attack starting them at
lvl 3, keeping the rest
-
WUTC
but also Black Stream Solo Heroes
-
Start
them off as viking heroes, 4hd each
-
Just
do Boasts + more magic items
Based on
the assumption that pulp is just macguffins all the way down.
But that
would also mean that need to be stricter on LOSING levels
As
explained on the Discord
“reading Pellucidar, homeie becomes the Unifier of the Human Tribes, goes home
to get supplies comes back and he's like dropped from Warlord to like A Guy
People Know at best”
- WUTC
idea, boasts only apply in a fight if the enemy you are fighting knows of those
boasts
Now,
someone said SotU achieves pulp by saying HP returns after combat and that if
PCs reach 0 you can just say they were captured
Black
Stream did a thing that if you wait 5 minutes after combat, binding your wounds
and resting, you gain 2 HP back. Up to what you had prior to the fight.
So players
can always get away with something for surviving.
Another
said they did swig of strong drink = regain a HD of HP in plenty of old D&D
games
My simpler
approach based on the above
+1 AB and
+1 HD per boast/oath.
Encourage
crazier boasts, offering even greater rewards for outrageous, dangerous or multi-session
tasks.
Say yes to action maneuvers like swinging on ropes.
Having
healing after each fight, either 2 HP or 1 HD, whichever I like at the time.
Random
Warcraft RPG Idea
Warcraft as
a setting is a lot like comics in that any initial plan went off the rails and
there is a deep vein of nostalgia-tinged regret for what could have been.
Warcraft
for 3E would have worked better if the LA system was complete garbage.
A lot of
fun races and classes are stuck being inherently awful.
Warcarft
the RPG (first one) was rooted in the idea characters were free to choose which
side they wanted to be on Kalimdor.
Humans and
Orcs wouldn't be wholly welcome in each other's cities, but the Barrens and
remote regions was more case-by case teamwork.
If I really
wanted to break down WoW as a "Warcraft 4", I would structure the
quest chains for the player group so each expansion solves one aspect of the
situation at the end of WC2 and 3. Also convert the levels so it's not a
strictly escalatory rise for each zone.
It ended up
working for WUTC weirdly.
A Level 1
Bear is 6 HD minimum HP 6
A level 20
Bear is 20/5=4, 6 HD, minimum 10 HP (6+4)
A level 80
Bear is 6 HD min 22 HP (6+16)
Instead of
Boasting, turn Quests worth 10 steps (culminative) to get an advancement.
Advancements
include magic, which AC provides a penalty to.
Mutants in
the Now Starting character.
I wanted to
try making a human-origin mutant who was a superhero, that meant minimizing the
animal traits and using the Option I selection from Mutants in the Next. It
still took me two hours and that’s with me knowing what I’m doing.
Diego
Gonzalez
Biologist
for UCLA by day, landscape painter on the weekend, Lucha Libre star by night.
And in the twilight hours, a cat-like hunter of injustice.
For Diego,
scion of a promient ranchero family, was researching the reintroduction of the
Candian Lynx in the US when he was in sudden car accident. Some needowells were
driving without the their lights on a country road.
For they
had GOO-P experiments in the back. Nevertheless, Diego came off the better for
it compared to them. Blessed with extrordinary powers and a still human body.
Returning
to LA, he swiftly put his new instincts to good use, sniffing out injustice and
the whiff of Proteus's hamhanded experimentation.
COG 19 +4
68% +4% 2D8
DET 17 +3
64% +4% 1D12
AFF 19 +4
68% +4% 2D8
PER 19 +4
68% +4% 2D8
STR 13 +1
55% +3% 1D8
PRO 15 +2
60% +4% 1D10
END 13 +1
55% +3% 1D8
SPD 16 +3
62% +4% 1D12
Size 10
SIZE DAM 1d6
Unarmed
Damage 1d6+2d8 (Counting X127 Clarification)
INITIATIVE:
+7
DEFENSE: 15
MORALE: 17
HIT POINTS
[HP]: 29
SUPERFICIAL
HARM THRESHOLD [SHT]: 68
WILLPOWER
[WILL]: 3
CONTACTS
[CTCT]:
Quinn Kim
Mountain Guide - Climbing Aerospace Engineer - Avionics Astonomer - Astronomy
James Perez
Farmer - Crop
Both
Reasons Simple Curisosity
LIFTING
POWER [LIFT]: 130
MOVE RATE
78
Values:
Bravery
Education
Justice
RURAL
MUTATION
AUTOMOTIVE
ACCIDENT
You were in
the accident.
PRIVILEGED
EXISTENCE
PRESTIGIOUS
UNIVERSITY: Your family
ensured you
went to a famous, elite
college.
FIELD
BIOLOGIST: Hands-on
life
lessons.
Package
Ability: When using skill
synergy
with Performance, Visual
Art, or
Writing, gain the higher of
the two
skill values instead of the
lower.
Package
Ability: A successful dramatic
roll can
let you know a creature’s
species,
size rating, and
anthropomorphic/zoomorphic
traits.
Skills
Biology
72%/+4%
Deduction
72% +4%
First Aid
68%/+4%
Genetics
68%/+4%
Performance
72%/+4%
Visual Art
68%/+4%
Marketing
68%/+4%
Hobby
Streetwise
64%/+4%
Questioning
68%/+4%
Teach
55%/+4%
Athletics
65%/+4%
Prof Light
Pistol
Formal
clothes
cellphone
or smartphone
a pack or
sack
CITIZENSHIP:
You’re a legal citizen
of your
country of origin,
with all
associated rights of
a young
adult or adult (your
choice).
However, this also
means the
government is aware
of your
existence and likely to
track your
activities.
DEGREE: You
have an official
academic
degree associated with
one of your
skill packages.
Without
citizenship, this is
likely a
forgery or honorary,
but it can
pass casual
inspection.
Grooming
kit
Light
Pistol
GETTING BY:
You’re secure, with
$3000 in
savings, and a small house
or condo,
no debt. You’re still paying on
anything
else.
Two Parent
Household
1 Sibling
lynx,
canadian
This lynx
lives to hunt snow hares.
Basic
Traits: Felidae, Omnivore, Bipedal,
Prehensile,
Vocal, CLoaked
Major
Traits: Enhanced Scent (5 GOO-P), Nightsight (5 GOO-P), Rake (5 GOO-P), Swift:
Sprint (8 GOO-P)
Minor
Traits: Claws (ascent, hooked, retractable), Enhanced Hearing, Fall Righting,
Snow Shoes
LUCHA LIBRE
Core
Ability (Lariat): If you perform a move action this turn, you may inflict
Prowess damage instead of weapon damage on unarmed grab and knockdown maneuvers.
You may also do so if your opponent moved on your turn or is startled.
Base
Ability (Iron Board): When you perform a move action, foes are +D on maneuvers
against you until the end of your next turn. If you sprint, they are +HD
instead.
Supported
Maneuvers: Bully, Grab, Knockdown, Taunt, Trick
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