From: MurfNMurf@aol.com
Date: Mon 17 Dec 2001 - 04:02:13 EET
Hey gang,
While reading through a friend's copy of the MERP game in an effort to
cadge spells for my RQ Sorcery document, I ran across their stats for
Dragons.
Though written in the mind-numbing ( _I_ couldn't make heads or tales out
of them)MERP system, as I'd also been wondering about Dragon stats lately, I
found them pretty interesting.
Essentially the MERP Dragon is 90-120' long, with a wingspan 20% more than
length, that can breath a cone of fire 300' long and 50' wide at the base.
With the previously-mentioned Dragon rules in mind (STR&SIZ equal, CON=1/2
STR. AP= 2X damage dice), for laughs I decided to crank out RQ3 stats for
this terror and see what I'd get.
Well, seeing its HP, I tried to see how many hits with a particular weapon
would deliver before being able to knock-off the beast. I also checked its HP
total against a few beasts that are common to both MERP and RQ in an effort
to see how many creatures with X HP would equal the Dragon's HP. With both
figured out, I found they'd only be a couple points difference from one
another :)
Its RQ HP worked out to be a scarry _132_. Since its CON +SIZ would have
to total 264 to give this number, I just backwards-figured what its STR, CON
and SIZ would be.
Grotesque Dragon stats follow:
STR 176 Move 18/36
INT 24 HP 132
POW 21+ Ftg 264
CON 88
DEX 24
SIZ 176
Bite SR4 2D8+4+21D6
Claw SR4 1D10+3+21D6
Tail SR4 11D6
Breath SR1 Flames 15m wide at 91m, doing at least 4D6 to each location
enveloped. If it instead breaths some sort of gas, it does so with POT 88.
BODY 42/53
LIMB, HEAD 42/44
WINGS, TAIL 42/33
Yikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Ken-
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