GURPS OLD WEST: Intimidation and the Movies

hal · 03-26-2012, 01:02 AM

Hello Folks,
One of my players was a bit discouraged about his "Intimidation" skill of 11 not being overly useful in game play. We started thinking about the various movies, one of which was the Outlaw Jose Wales. Then the player started wondering about "what if I have a 12 gauge shotgun - would that intimidate the opposition?"

So, here's my suggestion for this thread. Lets look at various of the movies and see what scenes could be described by the various rules in GURPS regarding intimidation. Chose any scene from any movie and then describe how it went down in GURPS terminology.

Perhaps we can get our juices flowing as to what constiutes some fancy use of intimidation (and other skills for that matter) to achieve a given result.

For instance - the infamous scene where Josey Wales is walking in town and meets up with the Union Soldiers. "Dying ain't much of a living" seems to be a perfect example where the reputation of the gunslinger combined with an attempt at using verbal intimidation made the soldiers more than willing to run.

How about OPEN RANGE with Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall? Would any of those scenes imply a successful use of Intimidation?

03-26-2012, 01:02 AM	#1
hal Join Date: Aug 2004	GURPS OLD WEST: Intimidation and the Movies Hello Folks, One of my players was a bit discouraged about his "Intimidation" skill of 11 not being overly useful in game play. We started thinking about the various movies, one of which was the Outlaw Jose Wales. Then the player started wondering about "what if I have a 12 gauge shotgun - would that intimidate the opposition?" So, here's my suggestion for this thread. Lets look at various of the movies and see what scenes could be described by the various rules in GURPS regarding intimidation. Chose any scene from any movie and then describe how it went down in GURPS terminology. Perhaps we can get our juices flowing as to what constiutes some fancy use of intimidation (and other skills for that matter) to achieve a given result. For instance - the infamous scene where Josey Wales is walking in town and meets up with the Union Soldiers. "Dying ain't much of a living" seems to be a perfect example where the reputation of the gunslinger combined with an attempt at using verbal intimidation made the soldiers more than willing to run. How about OPEN RANGE with Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall? Would any of those scenes imply a successful use of Intimidation?