Geese Stats

[Celjabba]

The DFRPG Nordlond Bestiary and Enemies have game bird stats, with stats for large one such as grey geese.

[Derrick_rp]

Originally Posted by mburr0003

I wouldn't bother giving them stats, just make them able to do whatever is needed to give the party a bad day...

The geese are allies, not enemies. A PC has a flock of trained geese that follow him everywhere. I am looking for stats so I can price them as allies and give them appropriate combat statistics

[Pursuivant]

Waterfowl are just ornery. Give them Bad Temper. Traits like Bully might be appropriate. They certainly have Hidebound and Chummy. They also have the SOP Perk (Feed as a flock with at least 1 goose on sentry duty at all times.)

[RGTraynor]

Originally Posted by Derrick_rp

The geese are allies, not enemies. A PC has a flock of trained geese that follow him everywhere. I am looking for stats so I can price them as allies and give them appropriate combat statistics

A flock of geese as his allies? (Not all that nuts; domesticated geese were used low-tech for watchdogs.) God help his enemies.

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Derrick_rp

The geese are allies, not enemies. A PC has a flock of trained geese that follow him everywhere. I am looking for stats so I can price them as allies and give them appropriate combat statistics

They will need to be at least 25% of the PC's total individually. If they aren't they're Dependents not Allies.

Even 50 cp might be a lot for an IQ 3 or 4 animal. You can probably take that 25% figure and just see how far you can get with it. These could end up being tougher than usual geese.

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

They will need to be at least 25% of the PC's total individually. If they aren't they're Dependents not Allies.

Note that GURPS Supers has rules for smaller percentages.

[Varyon]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

They will need to be at least 25% of the PC's total individually. If they aren't they're Dependents not Allies.

Nope, a base-cost [1] Ally is up to 25% of the PC's total - that's a maximum, not a minimum. A Dependent is a character who's presence is a detriment to the PC... but you can readily have a useful Ally who has a negative point total. As Bill notes, there are rules to be able to pay less for Allies with significantly less than 25% of the PC's total - I can't speak to GURPS Supers, but GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 9: Summoners lets you have an Ally with up to 5% of the PC's total (and negative-point Allies would count as "up to 5%") for a base cost of only [0.2].

[mburr0003]

Originally Posted by RGTraynor

A flock of geese as his allies? (Not all that nuts; domesticated geese were used low-tech for watchdogs.) God help his enemies.

And his friends, allies, family members... geese aren't loyal, they'll attack anyone they think they can get away with roughing up.

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Varyon

Nope, a base-cost [1] Ally is up to 25% of the PC's total - that's a maximum, not a minimum.].

Ah, they changed that when I wasn't looking. I was probably quoting 3e text. So sorry. Move along, nothing to see here.

[RGTraynor]

Beyond that, we wouldn't be talking about a 50 CP goose, would we? This is an ally group. We might be talking about a small flock of 8-10 pters.