03-20-2012, 03:08 PM | #11 |
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Re: Crafting fantastic dungeon creatures in GURPS
Somehow I get nervous when that woman laughs... :)
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03-20-2012, 03:57 PM | #12 |
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Re: Crafting fantastic dungeon creatures in GURPS
I remember that chart. I didn't know when I was a kid that "tushes" were a type of tooth, so there was once an encounter with hordlings who struck at the PCs with their red bottoms...
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03-20-2012, 04:54 PM | #13 | |
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*arches fingers together* Excellent.
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My mother certainly couldn't complain about the educational content in D&D. And, with the book out: I had completely forgotten the crazy movement mode codes. Why were they so reluctant to just WRITE "Swimming"? :D
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03-20-2012, 05:07 PM | #14 |
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Re: Crafting fantastic dungeon creatures in GURPS
Because there are 12"//6" (D) ways to get around that.
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Not in 1st edition, no, although there is a random prostitute table. Quote:
For some reason, my memory is telling me that Rob "Robilar" Kuntz created that table, but it's got some truly Gygaxian vocabulary to it. Frankly we're lucky that they settled on claw/claw/bite instead of rend/rend/masticate or something.
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03-21-2012, 07:35 AM | #16 |
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Re: Crafting fantastic dungeon creatures in GURPS
Dungeon Fantasy 2 and Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 1 lists creature types:
Animal (Dire, Giant, Normal) Construct Demon Divine Servitor Elder Thing Elemental Faerie Hybrid Mundane Plant Slime Undead Would it be worth the effort to slot those into the Creature Crafter? Then templates could be designed for each category... Last edited by Jerander; 03-21-2012 at 07:44 AM. |
03-21-2012, 07:38 AM | #17 |
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03-21-2012, 09:44 AM | #18 | |
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Alien, Animal, Animated, Elemental, Humanoid, Supernatural Beast, Amorphous, Plant, Undead, Insect Some of these map well. Animated = Construct, Amorphous = Slime; Animal, Elemental, Plant and Undead mean the same thing in both (Spirit, which is in Summoners, is also a kind of undead). Alien, in dungeon fantasy terms, is close to Elder Thing. The others, however, are kind of problematic, and, for generating things to whack, DF's terms are more vague. Mundane is the big kicker; it can mean a little old lady, an orc, a dragon, a bulette, a rust monster ... you name it. Same story with Demon, Divine Servitor and Faerie: they describe origin, but nothing else, much less morphology. Since one of the appeals is doing this on the fly (an example in the book involves the GM making a monster as her players turn a corner in a dungeon), that requires even more rolling to sort through the vague categories. In short: it would work well for some of the categories, but not the vague ones. And fooling around with rolling up a monster last night, the size table ST really should be a multiplier. I think I had a Tiny monster with ST 18, something that was making my head spin (though I envisioned the final result as a killer toy: it shot out steam and transformed victims, very weird). |
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03-21-2012, 11:12 AM | #19 |
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Re: Crafting fantastic dungeon creatures in GURPS
Really darn random results are a feature/flaw of random tables :)
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03-21-2012, 11:23 AM | #20 |
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There will be a corresponding table in GURPS Prostitutes. I will write it as soon as I can get SJG to pay for the exhaustive research I'll have to do.
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