Teddy Bear Racial Template

[Nymdok]

Originally Posted by Phantasm

To balance this out, I can see a serious ST penalty; all that fluff with no endoskeleton or exoskeleton is going to result in a teddy bear that can't lift much and hits like a pillow.

Too much realisim spoils the soup. I like this version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ck3rDu3Xtw

Originally Posted by Tallor

You could always add Payload and fill it with useful stuff like bombs or diamonds...

You would tear out a Teddy Bears stuffing!?!? YOU MONSTER!! :)

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

For example, if a child were to tie a cape (dish towel) around the teddy bear's neck, it would gain suitable powers, depending on the child's imagination. In this case, Enhanced Strength, Lifting ST, Enhanced Move, some DR with the Armoured enhancement, probably Flight and/or some form of super-speed. It might have additional powers as well. (Call it "Super-Teddy and it can make a targeted slam/flying jump kick attack against the head from the rear, a la Lynn Johnson's For Better or For Worse.) If the cape is lost during battle (it has to be completely removed; it still works if there's only a small amount left as long as it remains tied about the neck) or if the child leaves the area (generally determined by line of sight), the powers are immediately lost.

As another example, if the child placed a cowboy hat on the teddy bear's head and strapped on a toy gun belt with cap revolvers, the teddy bear would gain the Gunslinger advantage and Guns! skill. If the hat is knocked off, it loses the advantage and skill, but if the roll of caps runs out, it is "out of ammo" until it can "reload" but can fight, possibly gaining Brawling, Boxing, Wrestling or some combination of those skills.

This idea is golden, but difficult to price on the fly I think. Get the player to come up with a few templates beforehand.


Also, I wonder if there should be some kind of weakness to water?

Nymdok

[Celjabba]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

Not worked out but conceptually, how about the power of Make-Believe/Let's Pretend (a form of Alternative Abilities with the limitations: only accessible in the presence of a child [not an adolescent] and requires one or more props)?

Thats a Wildcard power with accessibility ... probably with illusion(mental, stigmata) as the core advantage.

[Anders]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

Not worked out but conceptually, how about the power of Make-Believe/Let's Pretend (a form of Alternative Abilities with the limitations: only accessible in the presence of a child [not an adolescent] and requires one or more props)?

Originally Posted by Celjabba

Thats a Wildcard power with accessibility ... probably with illusion(mental, stigmata) as the core advantage.

Or Modular Abilities.There are many ways to skin a Teddy Bear.

[robkelk]

Originally Posted by Ghostdancer

... (though if you think of a cool superpower for a teddy bear to have by all means post it!) ...

There's a historical reason why a "make the target peaceful" attack is called a "Care Bear Stare".

[Nymdok]

Originally Posted by robkelk

There's a historical reason why a "make the target peaceful" attack is called a "Care Bear Stare".

EGAD MAN! The CBS was meant as a Deterrent! It was never meant to actually be used!
THIS IS MADNESS!!!
Do you want to be go down in history as the man who scorched the earth with Sugar and Spice!?!?!

Nymdok

[lvalero]

Not worked out but conceptually, how about the power of Make-Believe/Let's Pretend (a form of Alternative Abilities with the limitations: only accessible in the presence of a child [not an adolescent] and requires one or more props)

If Teddy can only alternate between fixed "professions" such as Teddy Medic, Teddy Sheriff, Teddy Detective, Teddy Journalist and Super Teddy then the most convenient way to simulate it is with Alternate Forms. This simulates better an imaginative child who, when playing with Teddy, he assings the bear the same powers when it is Super Teddy ( and so on with the rest of roles)

[Refplace]

Fragile (Combustable)

[roguebfl]

This Super Teddy make me think ove Super Moose
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/...Episode_52.png

[Christopher R. Rice]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

Not worked out but conceptually, how about the power of Make-Believe/Let's Pretend (a form of Alternative Abilities with the limitations: only accessible in the presence of a child [not an adolescent] and requires one or more props)?

For example, if a child were to tie a cape (dish towel) around the teddy bear's neck, it would gain suitable powers, depending on the child's imagination. In this case, Enhanced Strength, Lifting ST, Enhanced Move, some DR with the Armoured enhancement, probably Flight and/or some form of super-speed. It might have additional powers as well. (Call it "Super-Teddy and it can make a targeted slam/flying jump kick attack against the head from the rear, a la Lynn Johnson's For Better or For Worse.) If the cape is lost during battle (it has to be completely removed; it still works if there's only a small amount left as long as it remains tied about the neck) or if the child leaves the area (generally determined by line of sight), the powers are immediately lost.

As another example, if the child placed a cowboy hat on the teddy bear's head and strapped on a toy gun belt with cap revolvers, the teddy bear would gain the Gunslinger advantage and Guns! skill. If the hat is knocked off, it loses the advantage and skill, but if the roll of caps runs out, it is "out of ammo" until it can "reload" but can fight, possibly gaining Brawling, Boxing, Wrestling or some combination of those skills.

I love this. I will be using it.

Originally Posted by Phantasm

Also Doesn't Eat or Drink should be on the template as well.

To balance this out, I can see a serious ST penalty; all that fluff with no endoskeleton or exoskeleton is going to result in a teddy bear that can't lift much and hits like a pillow.

Yeah, I tossed those up there.

Originally Posted by Nymdok

This idea is golden, but difficult to price on the fly I think. Get the player to come up with a few templates beforehand.

Originally Posted by Anders

Or Modular Abilities.There are many ways to skin a Teddy Bear.

I'm going to use Modular Abilities.

Originally Posted by Nymdok

Also, I wonder if there should be some kind of weakness to water?

Maybe. I think "Can't Swim" or something.

Originally Posted by robkelk

There's a historical reason why a "make the target peaceful" attack is called a "Care Bear Stare".

I gave it a 15d Burning attack for it's "CBS" It ain't friendly at all. T_T

Originally Posted by Nymdok

EGAD MAN! The CBS was meant as a Deterrent! It was never meant to actually be used!
THIS IS MADNESS!!!
Do you want to be go down in history as the man who scorched the earth with Sugar and Spice!?!?!

Yes.

Originally Posted by Refplace

Fragile (Combustable)

Damn. Yeah. That's needed.

Originally Posted by roguebfl

This Super Teddy make me think ove Super Moose
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/...Episode_52.png

You are not wrong.

[starslayer]

I have a character who has a small cadre of creepy dolls with scary oversized (for tiny dolls) knives.

I gave them unkillable 2 with a 0 point feature 'regenerate at summoner' (IE- you can throw the doll into a volcano and it just dies, but it comes back at the summoner rather than at the site of the doll death).
They also had the full set of 'golem-esque' advantages (homogenous, does not sleep, eat, etc)
I also gave them mute.

I also gave them a special attack:
3d impaling damage, indirect, cosmic ignores Armour, cosmic no active defense allowed, guided, increased 1/2d, increased range, costs HP 3, requires free hands, requires self-mutiliation.

So the dolls can stab themselves with their over-sized knives and someone else feels it, they can do that up to max range with no range penalties

Its become old hat, but the first time I described it my group was pretty slackjawed about how creepy that was. There is just something overall disconcerning about a silent doll (or teddy bear) stabbing itself awkwardly with a barely held knife and then hearing someone else scream in agony and fall over bleeding from a knifewound to the eyes.