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01-13-2013, 09:29 AM | #1 |
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Stat Challenge: Gollum
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Gollum ST 6 [-40] IQ 10 [0] DX 14 [80] HT 12 [20] Secondary Characteristics: Damage 1d-4/1d-3; Will 12 [10]; Per 14 [20]; FP 12 [0]; HP 6 [0]; Basic Speed: 7.00 [10]; Basic Move 5 [-10]; Basic Lift 13 lbs.; Size Modifier -2 Tech Level: 3 Culture: Kuduk [0] Languages: Black Speech (Broken/None) [1]; Kuduk (Native/None) [-3]; Westron (Native/None) [3] Advantages: Acute Hearing +4 [8] Amphibious [10] Catfall [10] Combat Reflexesss [15] Discriminatory Smell [15] Flexibility [5] Higher Purpose (Regain the Ring) [5] Lifting ST 2 (choking only, -60%) [3] Long Arms (SM-1) [10] Night Vision 5 [5] Reduced Consumption 2 (Cast-Iron Stomach, -50%) [2] Resistance - Shadow of Morgoth*, +3 [5] Silence +4 [20] Single-Minded [5] Sharp Teeth [1] Unaging [15] *This refers to all kinds of Evil effects Perks: Can run on all fours [1] Disadvantages: Appearance (Hideous) [-16] Callous [-5] Dead Broke [-25] Disturbing Voice [-10] Intolerance (everyone) [-10] Loner (12) [-5] Skinny [-5] Status -2 [-10] Split Personality: Smeagol: Cowardice (6) [-20], Odious Personal Habit: Obseqious [-10]; Sense of Duty (Master) [-2]; Gollum: Loner (15) [-2]; Major Delusion: I can control the Ring [-10]; Obsession (Get the ring, 6) [-20]: Total: (12) [-47] Quirks: Dislikes "good" things - Lembas, Elven bread Loves fish Prefers raw food Prefers to run on all fours Ssspeaksss in sssibilants Skills: Acrobatics-14 [4] Area Knowledge (Great Goblin caves)-12 [4] Boating (Unpowered)-14 [2] Brawling-16 [4] Climbing-19 [8] (+3 from Flexibility) Escape-12 [1] Fishing-16 [4] Judo-14 [4] Scrounging-14 [1] Stealth-18 [2] (+4 for Silence, another +4 if motionlessss) Survival (Underground)-14 [2] Swimming-14 [4] Tracking-18 [2] (+4 for Discriminatory Smell) Wrestling-16 [8] Technique: Choke Hold-16 [4] Ground Fighting (Brawling)-16 [5] Ground Fighing (Wrestling)-16 [5] Hands-Fishing +3 [3] (avg technique buying off half equipment penalty) Equipment: Loincloth that's always in place Comment: This is the Smeagol/Gollum that comes upon Frodo and Sam near the Dead Marshes. I made him fairly cinematic - Tolkien is High Fantasy after all. Social skills are not his forté but he is a formidable assassin - his effective ST for choking someone is 13 (+2 for Striking ST, +2 for Wrestling skill, and +3 for established choke hold), and with Stealth-18 he gets surprise more often than not. Maybe he's too powerful? What do you think?
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01-13-2013, 09:42 AM | #2 |
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01-13-2013, 09:55 AM | #3 |
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Re: Stat Challenge: Gollum
For wrestling and other grappling effects one should buy Lifting ST, not Striking ST, IIRC.
Also, his Night Vision is more a feature (normal vision at -5, not at 0), as in Fantasy. I'd say he has some sort of Social Stigma: Savage or even Monster. It's Frodo's Xenophilia and Gandalf's knowledge to save him from being shot at sight. And he has some Weakness or, more likely, Susceptibility to "Strike Evil" effects, like elven rope or bright sun. Or Delusion that he has one. Or this may be a feature balacned with that Resistance. Something like "counts as Evil creature for supernatural effects".
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01-13-2013, 10:08 AM | #4 |
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Re: Stat Challenge: Gollum
Right, Lifting Strength. Belonging to a category is a feature, IIRC. The resistance to the Shadow of Morgoth is something all Hobbits share.
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01-13-2013, 04:38 PM | #5 |
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Re: Stat Challenge: Gollum
I might reduce his strength to more typical for halfling. in fact, I think his build should have halfling as its base in terms of cost for point values. but, yes, you modeled Gollum well indeed.
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01-13-2013, 09:48 PM | #6 |
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Re: Stat Challenge: Gollum
Doesn't that loincloth count as a thankful perk?
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01-14-2013, 12:20 AM | #7 |
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Re: Stat Challenge: Gollum
Gollum is a hobbit: That is, a halfling. He's half the scale of a man, or SM -2. ST tends to be proportional to height, which argues for ST 5. I'll stipulate that he's strong, despite being wiry, but his strength tends to show up in things like grasping and strangling; I'd call it either Arm ST or Lifting ST, maybe +1 or +2. ST 8 is just way too high.
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01-14-2013, 01:42 AM | #8 | |
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01-14-2013, 05:22 AM | #9 |
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Re: Stat Challenge: Gollum
Uh, Moria? That's an odd place for Gollum to have so much knowledge.
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01-14-2013, 05:40 AM | #10 |
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Re: Stat Challenge: Gollum
He lived there for 300 years, didn't he?
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