09-13-2013, 04:12 PM | #1 |
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Idle Lore Question: IW and Toon?
It occurred to me that, somewhere out there, there has to be at least one Toon universe out in that big Infinite Worlds metaverse.
I imagine that would be an extremely interesting, if mechanically problematic crossover adventure. Call it Crosstime Jam. Cross-space being too on-the-nose. |
09-13-2013, 05:09 PM | #2 |
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Re: Idle Lore Question: IW and Toon?
I think Powers had some modifiers for Shadow Form that could help as the basis for a Toon template, along with some form of Unkillable/Injury Tolerance/Regeneration.
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09-13-2013, 09:22 PM | #3 |
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Re: Idle Lore Question: IW and Toon?
There was an old thread where someone made a template for a 1940's Warner Bros, MGM/Tex Avery cartoon type of invincibility. Kinda frightening when brought into a relatively realistic setting.
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09-14-2013, 07:02 AM | #4 |
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Re: Idle Lore Question: IW and Toon?
Hmm, would toons have IT: Diffuse, or Regrowth (Reattachment Only)? Being strained through a grate or getting chopped in half never seems to do anything other than slow them down (they're back together in the next scene...).
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09-14-2013, 09:19 AM | #5 |
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Re: Idle Lore Question: IW and Toon?
It'll be easier to represent the PCs in Toon than Toons in GURPS.
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09-14-2013, 12:33 PM | #6 |
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Re: Idle Lore Question: IW and Toon?
^ That's probably how I would handle it. Toon isn't a world where everyone happens to have amusing superpowers, it's one where the laws of the universe are totally different. Translate the PCs over and tell the players to exaggerate their characters' personalities x10. Conversely, if you take a toon native to any other dimension, it should turn into a normal human or non-talking animal.
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09-14-2013, 12:46 PM | #7 | |
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Re: Idle Lore Question: IW and Toon?
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09-14-2013, 02:55 PM | #8 |
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Re: Idle Lore Question: IW and Toon?
The real trick - and what I suspect the OP was going for - would be having a toon (or a Cool World "doodle") as a PC in an ISWAT game away from the toon's cartoon-physics world and retaining most of what s/he's capable of in what we would call the "real" world.
Think Who Framed Roger Rabbit with the toons and regulars operating side by side in the real world, rather than Space Jam or Cool World with non-toons visiting the cartoon world.
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09-14-2013, 05:30 PM | #9 |
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Re: Idle Lore Question: IW and Toon?
And we already have chemical treatments for allowing characters of "impossible" size/weight ratios to stay alive, including the side-effect of rounding all the super tiny humans' ST scores upwards to 1. So making an "I continue to break physics" drug that the toons need to keep taking doses of wouldn't be out of line.
Possibly distilled laughter or derived from an exotic ink, among other ingredients.
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09-16-2013, 04:41 PM | #10 | |
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Re: Idle Lore Question: IW and Toon?
I mentioned this thread to Robert M. Schroeck, and he replied:
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