G'day guys,
In the spirit of the silly season the kids and I are fiddling with a scenario
idea and thought it might be fun to get some ideas about stats off you guys.
However, please remember that small children who avidly believe in Santa will
be reading (well trying to) these posts so please no
anti-Claus
comments or profanity thanks.
SCENARIO SET-UP: Claus nearly forgot to get some presents to 3 special
kids and has to make a near dawn run to get them in in time. This means he's
endanger of being spotted by air defence networks and ground patrols. His only
support are his outriders... on one side a boy by the name of Harry (riding a
broomstick and armed only with a wand and veteran level courage) and on the
other a blue flying car occupied by one Ron and Hermione (who should get elite
level intelligence and a mean left hook! And in case you're wondering the car
was coaxed out of the Forbidden Forest by Hagrid....). And to keep it sensible
(;P) Claus doesn't use any superpowers beyond his charm and charisma (and the
flying sleigh which goes less than FTL for our purposes). There's also a time
limit, x turns and then the sun's up and his sprung!!
SUGGESTIONS REQUIRED: At the DS scale
1) What obstacles should lie between Santa and the village at the other end of
the board? What kind of air defence assets would try and intercept a UFO?
(Well a UFS..un-identified flying sleigh)
2) What stats should the sleigh/car get? I'd be willing to give the
sleigh
maxi-stealth or some kind of super ECM or something to make it harder to
detect.
At the SG/FMA scale
3) What obstacles and abilities should the two sides (Santa and co vs
police/secret service/army etc) have? I've got ideas (e.g. need reaction
test to avoid being under "Santa's nothing happening here, off to bed" spell),
but I wanted to see what independent suggestions would throw up (you guys
always come up with cool stuff I would've missed).
4) Anything else I've missed.
Cheers
> 1) What obstacles should lie between Santa and the village at the
It rather depends on what setting you want, n'est-ce pas?
Is the opposition taking the attitude "Saint Nicholas is coming and we have to
stop him so we can carry out our Nefarious Plan", or is it more "What *is*
that? Dunno, let's see if we can knock it down!".
a) If you want to use Ron, Hermione, and What's His Name as flankers, then you
might reasonably have black magicians, hags, vampires etc as the opposition.
b) If you want a SF setting, then...I dunno, maybe Chinese air defense assets
are mistaking the sleigh for a Capitalist Spy Plane? Depending on your figures
you could have anything from biplanes and blimps to
surface-to-air missiles (wouldn't be likely to seek the sleigh but
might go after the flying car). c) Maybe W Files agents are trying to score so
they can get promoted to X? d) Are the Men In Black taking part, and if so, on
which side?
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Monday's issued of Sluggy Freelance might provide some, ah, inspiration:
http://www.sluggy.com/
for the SG side of things.
G'day guys,
Andrew pointed me to:
> Monday's issued of Sluggy Freelance might provide some, ah,
Thanks for that.... though I thought I was warped;)
Rob suggested:
> Against Santa:
Great ideas!! Thanks!!
Laserlight asked:
> It rather depends on what setting you want, n'est-ce pas?
More the later, though with Rob's twists it could turn into the former
;)
> a) If you want to use Ron, Hermione, and What's His Name as flankers,
True, maybe on a roll they turn up? I was also thinking along the lines of a
serious of challenges they have to figure out to help Santa along (the kids
have become puzzle mad since we read the first Potter book).
> b) If you want a SF setting, then...I dunno, maybe Chinese air defense
This is more what I had in mind.
> c) Maybe W Files agents are trying to score so they can get promoted
;)
> d) Are the Men In Black taking part, and if so, on which side?
Janneke loves MIB so you may be on a winner there... as for which side,
knowing Janneke the winning one;)
Tom chipped in:
> To stop Santa:
Janneke can run them along with MIB then they'd be true to form;)
> Of course, many major Toy Companies would
Nice idea... fits in well with Rob's ideas too!
> Another group against Santa would be
Mmmm "nuns-with-guns" could be useful here ;)
> A group of anti-materialist protestors....
Where am I gonna get feral greenie figs?;)
> On Santa's side:
I see my PK gnomes coming in handy here;)
> These guys can manufacture
That's what I was thinking too.
> And I'm sure the Elves can field some rather
Very cool idea;)
> Reindeer who are alleged to get huge
Not bad;)
> A rather large obnoxious yeti...
I'll take your word for it on this one... is it a Canadian thing or am I am I
just ignorant??
> I'd consider giving Santa an ability to use dummy markers,
Another good idea!
> And if anyone is chasing Santa, he might have
;)
To which Michael replied:
> That's not debris, it's coal for those "bad" boys and girls!
I'll pay that one!;)
Thanks for all the great ideas guys!!
Thanks
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