04-16-2017, 01:40 PM | #51 | |
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Are the hunters willing to gain such a dark and powerful ally? Refusal will lead to his death and massive civil war that wouldn't help anyone, monster or mortal. How does one even get a unicorn's tear? What if it was all a wild goose chase concocted by the vampire second in command to distract from his slow poisoning of the lord?
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04-16-2017, 11:38 PM | #52 | |
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By kicking it in the horn.
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04-17-2017, 12:17 AM | #53 |
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04-17-2017, 12:20 AM | #54 |
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Mysterious "benefactors" for groups of hunters are ALWAYS a risk gamble. There is always the possibility that the secret patron is, in fact, one of the inhuman creatures.
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04-17-2017, 12:34 AM | #55 | |
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Of course, if the monsters are evil (as the group I play with tends to be no matter what we're playing...) they're more likely to consider how powerful their patron is and if killing them would tick him off too much. (It might not, if he's just using them as a means to an end, the PCs may find themselves recruited to replace the hunters in fulfilling their purpose!) Last edited by mikeejimbo; 04-17-2017 at 12:35 AM. Reason: I didn't mean to swear I'm sorry! |
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04-17-2017, 08:58 AM | #56 | |
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The nicest of the PCs is a werewolf whose mentality if fairly close to the Bestial disadvantage. He doesn’t have the full disadvantage because he can function in society if he absolutely has to, but given the choice will act more like a wild animal than a person, and actively enjoys being angry or starting fights with people – and doesn’t seem to mind when those fights turn bloody. Another example from the group is a vampire necromancer, who is much more amiable and friendly at face-value, but horrifyingly cruel when it suits her purposes. While she doesn’t keep pens of prisoners to feed on, she instead feeds on slaves she keeps through Brainwashing, and is served by ghost minions created by torturing people to death in ways horrific enough to result in a restless spirit for her to Bind. But like I mentioned, for the NPC hunters I’d prefer to steer clear of MiB/monster Patrons, I’d especially wish to avoid them working for a vampire lord. However, I figure these hunters are trying to create an alliance with other monster-hunting bands they can find out there, perhaps looking to establish such an organisation, and even make it so that if something happens to them then another band of hunters will be able to move into the power-vacuum and take over the resources they had established. If we go with the “wildlife office” idea, I can see them establishing a rural base, possibly cooperating with shamans to make the land super-productive (I think the necromancer has offended a shaman somewhere by desecrating Native American burial mounds for her laboratory), protected with holy ground... In which case, just taking out these hunters isn’t a solution, because the infrastructure can just be used to support another batch of monster-hunters instead. |
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04-18-2017, 03:39 AM | #57 | |
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04-21-2017, 12:08 PM | #58 | |
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06-27-2018, 07:24 PM | #59 | |
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how does this nameless agency gets their funds? how much and through what means do they make payment to the smaller groups? how is the money laundered? ive been having trouble with this myself. if anyone ever watched the show "supernatural" they never quite explain how those two guys make money for gas food and hotels, that always ****** me off. in the monster hunter incorporated books by larry correia there is a secret national agency that pays bounties for the killing of supernatural monsters, aka 50K for a wherewolf, they pay by check from department of defense to the person. thats the only part of those books i liked. |
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06-27-2018, 07:34 PM | #60 | |
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the way i did it for our low powered monster hunster campaign was kind of like this - Players check tabloids or deep web for promissing cases - Players contact people involved claiming to be able to help for "x" moneys - do the job, collect loot, collect payment sometimes they would do pro bono work, sometimes charge almost nothing, and ocasionally it would be a job for someone super rich that paid a lot. other hunter groups work that same way and they help each other for big investigations, splitting payment. and the reason hunters dont go public is to not disrupt the relative peace from the "cold war" because our side might not win. the other side doesnt go public because the ones in charge are very wealthy and comfortable and they also arent sure they would win all-out war. |
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