From: Brent Krupp (fletcher@u.washington.edu)
Date: Thu 23 Jun 1994 - 04:09:46 EEST
> From: eejuffs@swansea.ac.uk (Philip Juffs)
> Subject: Sun Dome Hoplites and the Romans
> Message-ID: <4680.9406221325@hope.swan.ac.uk>
> Date: 22 Jun 94 13:25:08 GMT
> X-RQ-ID: 4742
>
> And lastly, I recently ran a game where a Broo shaman had possed an
> allosaur with a view to mating > it with some of his tribe. (As if the
> thought of 10 tons of intelligent spell casting carnivore > wasn't bad
> enough.) Sort of shades of Jurrasic Park. Can anyone give me rational why
> this sort of thing doen't happen more often?
A while back, someone made the *excellent* suggestion that Broo pay POW when they mate with other creatures, thereby justifying the (often) outrageous results. "Normal" host creatures (herd animals) only cost 1 POW, or maybe nothing at all, but crazy stuff (rhinos, walktapi, allosauri, wood stoves) cost more in proportion to how distant the host is from the usual cloved-hooved victim.
In this context, the large POW expenditures that would be involved in making Allosauri Broo would tend keep it from happening too often, but when it does, it certainly sounds like an excellent thing for budding heroes (i.e. Player Characters) to battle against.
Brent Krupp (fletcher@u.washington.edu)
P.S. To Phillip: keep your line lengths below 75 or so... makes messages look better on the Digest.
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