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Post by turnagealfonsojermaine on Jan 7, 2011 19:30:25 GMT -5
I am designing an NPC for a future game (Hopefully I can re-start it here, but anyway) , this NPC is a 3-to4-yr.-old w/ the Limited Version of Phoenix Force . . . most of this i can design except the age limitation, which is what it really is. Advice for making a toddler w/ powers?
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Post by Jet on Jan 8, 2011 3:01:46 GMT -5
Turn him into equipment. No, Im serious, toddlers and anything that doesnt have stats for battle doesnt need stats, just be a plot device to be used when needed. If its attacked (for some stupid reason by any of your NPC's), it will either stop it with its power or... well, die in a single hit (again, why would you bring a toddler NPC to just kill it?).
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Post by malice on Jan 8, 2011 3:46:19 GMT -5
I pretty much agree with Playah. There's no point in statting this thing out. You must either accept the possibility of a toddler's death in your campaign, or don't accept it and therefore don't allow it (eliminating the need to give it numbers. Numbers are for things that can die).
Over the summer I played in a Shadowrun module where we encountered several children with extreme magical talent. It basically let them make their will into reality. Several members of our party, myself included, thought we should kill them. They were impervious to our efforts. It wasn't because they were so powerful, it was because murdering children wasn't OK with either the GM or the writers of the module or both.
On a similar note: This is why there aren't many children in freeform video games like most BioWare RPGs and the Elder Scrolls Series: Killing kids is not something game developers want to encourage or even allow. I agree with them. The game is perfectly enjoyable if you allow yourself to forget that children once roamed the earth. However if you put something moving in the game people want to interact with it, and one of the first interactions they execute is the attack button.
However if you are really interested in statting it out...
Most of its abilities will be 1. Toddlers are by definition undeveloped physically and mentally.
That's pretty much all. The toddler likely won't possess many or any actions aside from the Phoenix Force. The Phoenix Force is pretty sweet, but doesn't confer a predictable bonus when its not activated. Assuming it's not activated (No stones in the action box), you can just kill someone who has the Phoenix Force just like you kill anyone else.
They may be reanimated by the power, but they may also NOT be. It's a nice feature of the Phoenix Force (Even the limited version), it's not yours, and it doesn't have to behave in a way that's ideal for you. That's the "GM discretion" part.
It's a toddler. It isn't good at anything yet. You stick the Phoenix Force in it and it's still just a toddler that might occasionally glow funny or destroy the planet. Unless the Phoenix Force takes over the child's consciousness and just uses it as a conduit (aka possesses the child much like a spirit or other possessing entity), then the toddler will be unchanged except when the Phoenix Force action is activated.
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Post by WildKnight on Jan 8, 2011 12:43:36 GMT -5
The problem is that a 1 in MURPG is not sub-standard. It's average. Meaning that there is NO appropriate stat for someone who is actuall "weak." I suppose you could give them a zero, meaning that they cannot apply stones from Abilties at all, and only have 2 red stones of health.  |
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Post by pgholland on Jan 8, 2011 12:51:01 GMT -5
Part of the problem is that this system is designed to mimic comics- meaning that even toddlers or their equivalent are at least as good as a normal person really- take for example Power Pack or Princess Powerful- both are very young (also Younger Franklin Richards and Valeria): they are exceptional by dint of being supers.
Thing is, are you looking to creep out your players? To make them feel unease and discomfort? If not, don't use a toddler as a villain at all. Most people still hold to the pre-80s belief that children are innocent. That has been changing since some events e.g. the Jamie Bulger case in the UK; but at the end of the day, even people who have changed their views would still find that creepy and wrong. A child essentially shouldn't be an evil villain.
If you want some advice, I would suggest turning to World of Darkness: Innocents, though even the advice in there is for 8-12 year olds.
But if you are bent on it- a toddler would have 1s in all stats, no learned actions at all, and at least 2 challenges- Inexperienced (gets a -2 penalty on all learned actions) and Small (gets a -2 penalty on all physical actions). At the very least.
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Post by Jet on Jan 12, 2011 14:49:47 GMT -5
He never said its going to be a villain, just NPC.
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Post by turnagealfonsojermaine on Jan 20, 2011 17:53:34 GMT -5
Sorry, I assume it sounds stupid since I didn't explain enough . . . I am trying to set up a Scenerio w/ four Mutants Heroes (Some more Heroic than Others, but anyway . . . ) . The Gal in the group is a divorcee w/ a PARA-LYZED DAUGHTER. She is around 3 to 6, maybe seven. Quite frankly, she is a target for reasons I am describe fully, so she could get killed off if the "PC's" are careless, but it won't be easy. The young toddler girl is the new Phoenix, w/ Partial Phoenix Force of at least 5 (possible plus) and perhaps full Force at Various times. Unfortunately for the "targeted girl" she receives "head-aches" when she uses her powers too much & her Mom tells her not to Use them unles absolutely necessary (which is hardly ever because too much power . . . ) I wanted to give her stats becuase I don't really know how much Partial (perhaps full) "Force to give her within 40 to maybe 50 whites. Full Explanation !!
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Post by turnagealfonsojermaine on Dec 19, 2012 16:05:05 GMT -5
Sorry, it took me so long to come back. Okay, there is a Mother Super-Hero (-ine) who is famous ala "Invisible Woman" (the "Invisible Lady," actually) . She has a 4-yo daughter who knows "Mommy Is a Super-Hero." . . . AND, she is constantly under attack, sub-plots for her relatives, because she is "level 5/omega" in the making --- or something. I know vulnerables who have no knowledge is "4," but what if they have knowledge like this girl.
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Post by turnagealfonsojermaine on May 10, 2013 15:17:15 GMT -5
Sorry, it took me so long to come back. Okay, there is a Mother Super-Hero (-ine) who is famous ala "Invisible Woman" (the "Invisible Lady," actually) . She has a 4-yo daughter who knows "Mommy Is a Super-Hero." . . . AND, she is constantly under attack, sub-plots for her relatives, because she is "level 5/omega" in the making --- or something. I know vulnerables who have no knowledge is "4," but what if they have knowledge like this girl.
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