07-04-2012, 01:15 AM | #41 |
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07-04-2012, 05:33 AM | #43 | |
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No idea about highest DX or HT, though. |
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HT is hard to read from text, of course, but I think we can safely assume that Greatjon Umber is an epic badass in this department. He casually laughs off a crippling wolf-bite to the hand, and not only survives the Red Wedding but manages to kill a guy and bite another guy's ear off before he goes down after drinking with Merrett Frey (a raging alcoholic with a liver made out of shoe leather, specifically tasked with getting the Greatjon too drunk to fight, and a very sturdy man himself - his mother was a Crakehall) all night. Runner-up: Strong Belwas, who has let every man he has ever killed cut him once without dying of infection, and who eats an entire bowl of poisoned locusts that were supposed to kill Daenerys in a few bites with nothing more than vomiting and an incapacitating bellyache as the consequences. Loras Tyrell is a DX monster. The kid is shown to be talented as all get-out at everything physical he attempts, from riding to almost every knightly weapon I can think of (especially the lance, to enable the double entendre lulz, but he also kills two of his fellow Rainbow Guards, supposedly some of the best fighters in his very large faction, at the same time with a sword, and chooses a morningstar when he storms Dragonstone). We never see him lose in melee except once each against Gregor Clegane and Brienne of Tarth, who were both highly-skilled in their own right, much bigger than he is, and functioning in a blind apocalyptic rage at the time. Syrio Forel is a likely candidate to be up there as well, but he could also be chalked up to one very high skill, Weapon Master, and sheer speed. The real winners of the setting, however, are the Others, of course. Nobody else is described as possessing, "liquid grace." Skills are hard to pin down. We rarely see straight contests of skill without any external factors in the series outside of tourney (eg: The top three archers at the Tourney of the Hand are Anguy of the BWB, Jalabar Xho of the Summer Islands, and Balon Swann of the Kingsguard). Right-handed Jaime Lannister, Syrio Forel, and Barristan Selmy are probably the kings of sheer swordsmanship based on reputation and observable feats. Petyr Baelish is a wizard of Economics and Finance, and he and Varys are masters of Intelligence Analysis. Euron Greyjoy Intimidates his brothers Victarion (an epic badass who hates him) and Aeron (a fanatical holy man who opposes him on spiritual grounds) just by looking at them. Tyrion is probably the realm's foremost authority on dragons, now that Aemon Targaryen is dead, and his dad Tywin is a demigod of Strategy. Marwyn the Mage probably knows more about Thaumatology than anybody else in Westeros. Nobody out-Caroused Robert Baratheon... Last edited by Gold & Appel Inc; 07-04-2012 at 06:52 AM. |
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07-04-2012, 08:37 AM | #45 | |
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Looking at Varys, for example, while he certainly has mental depth, does he have the breadth needed to justify lots of raw IQ, or could he be designed with a decent IQ + talent + advantages? Maybe something like: ST 10 [0]; DX 10 [0]; IQ 13 [60]; HT 10 [0] Advantages: Charisma +1 [5]; Common Sense (Reliable +4 +20%) [12]; Empathy (Reliable +4 +20%)[18]; Intuition (Reflexive +40%; Reliable +10, +50%) [29]; Luck [30]; Talent +10 [???]; Serendipity 2 [30]. Quirks: Eunuch [-1]; Always going on about being a eunuch or what being castrated feels like [-1] |
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07-04-2012, 09:33 AM | #46 |
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You can't take Talent +10 but Talent +4 sounds like a good idea. Make it a Politician Talent.
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07-04-2012, 09:52 AM | #47 | |
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On Spike TVs 'Deadliest Warrior' they documented example after example of modern Sport weaponists being able to lop pig carcasses practically in half with big ancient swords. (But also, alternatively, neither we nor GURPS can be held responsible if the source material is exaggerated.) Last edited by Figleaf23; 07-04-2012 at 09:56 AM. |
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07-04-2012, 10:00 AM | #48 |
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07-04-2012, 10:13 AM | #50 |
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<shrug> we have a canonical answer. Beheading a character takes a Cutting Attack to the Neck location and a failed HT roll for survival.
Horses are Characters and a typical warhorse is ST/HP 24 (No, I wouldn't bother buying the Mountain a really good horse). ST 24 is 4D+3 Swing. a Greatsword adds +3 damage and Fine would add +1. AOA(Strong) adds +1 per die and all this totals to 4D+10. That averages 24 pts and Cutting Attacks to the Neck are x2. All you need now is the failed HT Roll. You don't like these rules? Make up your own but the OP (if the poor fellow is stil with us) wanted to know how to benchmark a character in Gurps and this provides a fir for the Mountain with official rules.
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