Nerdnumber1 Posted December 4, 2008 Report Share Posted December 4, 2008 http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ffn/index.php Discuss. Anyone want to stat out a 200+150disad(?) santa, Scrooge, or Frosty? Just thought that this would put a smile on some faces and inspire others for their own games. Happy Holidays (or Marry effing Christmas if you're going to make a big deal about it). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperJerry Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Re: Cristmas & Cthulhu Roflol!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerdnumber1 Posted December 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Re: Cristmas & Cthulhu What christmas character to make? This sounds like a hero game waiting to be played. Frosty would have a bit of a weakness though ("I got his hat!!") Any game in which Santa blows the head off a deep one and saying "You made the naughty list this year," would be ammusing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Re: Cristmas & Cthulhu In the same vein, this came out last year. It was pretty funny, in a very cheesy way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrix3 Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Re: Cristmas & Cthulhu Penny Arcade did something similar in 2004. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrraBuss Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Re: Cristmas & Cthulhu Look out for the psychotic Psantas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narratio Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Re: Cristmas & Cthulhu Shoggoths making Xmas pressies while the elves lie screaming in odd corners? I can see that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Re: Cristmas & Cthulhu What christmas character to make? This sounds like a hero game waiting to be played. Frosty would have a bit of a weakness though ("I got his hat!!") Any game in which Santa blows the head off a deep one and saying "You made the naughty list this year' date='" would be ammusing.[/quote'] Also, sucked for Frosty when it came to anything above 32 F. (Note: Never liked the Frosty cartoon always freaked me out for some reason when I was little. I think I would have rather seen the Shoggoths:straight:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narratio Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Re: Cristmas & Cthulhu A 350pt Santa? Nah. Okay Santa as a 600 pt character with an amazing VPP (representing his bag of presents). Frosty as a standard 350pt character and Scrooge as a no longer age limited 150pt agent. VS Cthulhu (A 2000pt protogod again with a huge VPP (represented by a large KFC bucket filled with a few hundred d6) and a few Shoggoths at, say 300pts apiece... that's it. Nope, got to add the flying Reindeer (with firing lasers from thier antlers) and a horde of 60pt agent level elves. Okay, I think we can make a game of this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrix3 Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Re: Cristmas & Cthulhu From Neil Gaiman's website, excerpted from Smoke and Mirrors his poem Nicholas Was... older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter. He wanted to die. The dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns did not speak his language, but conversed in their own, twittering tongue, conducted incomprehensible rituals, when they were not actually working in the factories. Once every year they forced him, sobbing and protesting, into Endless Night. During the journey he would stand near every child in the world, leave one of the dwarves' invisible gifts by its bedside. The children slept, frozen into time. He envied Prometheus and Loki, Sisyphus and Judas. His punishment was harsher. Ho. Ho. Ho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Re: Cristmas & Cthulhu It was the Yuletide, which men call Christmas, although they know in their hearts it is older than Bethlehem, and Babylon; older than Memphis, and Mankind. You do know Lovecraft wrote a Christmas story? It was called The Festival. What I'd love to see again is The X-mas Files - a story the New Yorker ran once with Mulder and Scully investigating Santa Claus. Scully: A being of the size described could never fit down the chimney. Mulder: What if it could deform its shape? Scully: You mean, like a bowl full of jelly? Lucius Alexander The palindromedary wonders if Boxing Day is a Fistival. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Re: Cristmas & Cthulhu Well you could add Marley to the team. (DeSolid, Flying, his chains as weapons, possibly causes inanimate things come to life, the doorknob in some versions). You know, that gives me an idea for another thread. You could also add the 3 spirits too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Long Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Re: Cristmas & Cthulhu THE CTHULHU CHRISTMAS SONG By Steve Long with help from Janice Sellers Cultists chanting by a burning pyre Tentacles ripping at your nose Yuletide carols being sung while afire And folks dressed up like those Tcho-Tchos. Everybody knows a turkey and an Elder Sign Help to make the season blight Cultist sects, with their plans all in line, May find the stars are right tonight. They know Cthulhu’s on his way He’s got lots of toys and goodies in R’lyeh And every Deep One child is gonna spy To see if nightgaunts really know how to fly! And so I’m offering this simple tale To byakhee from one to 9,000,022 Although it’s been chanted, many times, many ways Cthulhu fhtagn tooooo youuuuuu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hfergus Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Re: Cristmas & Cthulhu THE CTHULHU CHRISTMAS SONG By Steve Long with help from Janice Sellers Cultists chanting by a burning pyre Tentacles ripping at your nose Yuletide carols being sung while afire And folks dressed up like those Tcho-Tchos. Everybody knows a turkey and an Elder Sign Help to make the season blight Cultist sects, with their plans all in line, May find the stars are right tonight. They know Cthulhu’s on his way He’s got lots of toys and goodies in R’lyeh And every Deep One child is gonna spy To see if nightgaunts really know how to fly! And so I’m offering this simple tale To byakhee from one to 9,000,022 Although it’s been chanted, many times, many ways Cthulhu fhtagn tooooo youuuuuu. Sick. And good. Great combination. IfI can remember them, I may post my Klingon Christmas songs. Don't ask. My mind went stranger than normal one day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerdnumber1 Posted December 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Re: Cristmas & Cthulhu Also, sucked for Frosty when it came to anything above 32 F. (Note: Never liked the Frosty cartoon always freaked me out for some reason when I was little. I think I would have rather seen the Shoggoths:straight:) An animated snowman scared you more than a Lovecraftian, invinsible killing machine that moves like a freight train and took down a civilivation a hundred times more advanced than ours? I guess you had the imagination to contemplate what an instant-animate any snow construct hat could do, in the hands of a true-munchkin (ice sculpture of Tiamat). A 350pt Santa? Nah. Okay Santa as a 600 pt character with an amazing VPP (representing his bag of presents). Frosty as a standard 350pt character and Scrooge as a no longer age limited 150pt agent. VS Cthulhu (A 2000pt protogod again with a huge VPP (represented by a large KFC bucket filled with a few hundred d6) and a few Shoggoths at, say 300pts apiece... that's it. Nope, got to add the flying Reindeer (with firing lasers from thier antlers) and a horde of 60pt agent level elves. Okay, I think we can make a game of this. I just put 350 to set a level that could let all the characters be semi-equal. If you figure that much of Santa's power is in certain independant foci/followers that he somehow lost when Cthulhu awoke (northpole was eaten, elves were driven insane, elves went on strike, etc.) you could decrease Santa's points to a reasonable level. Also, who knows what the "stars are right" does to yuletime magic? If Scrooge can equal Santa, things are getting rough (Scrooge's power is money-based while Santa has both magic and enough resources to give presents to a substantial section of the world population (who's richer do you think's richer?)). Anyway, most CoC games give the players a way to stop Big C without direct confrontation, so I think that the goal isn't to have a Cthulhu killing team (a Shoggoth/deep one killing team would be a good idea). PS: Elves are either a lot more than 60 points or really not going to be squat in the game (might have instantly gone insane and destroyed the workshop, explaining the weakening of Santa.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brionl Posted December 6, 2008 Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Re: Cristmas & Cthulhu I present to you, the Scrooginator. The cartoon looked like he had a steam-tech power suit, so I went with that. This would be for mowing down hordes of cultists, and maybe the odd shoggoth but not going against the Big Squid itself. This is just a rough draft, needs further tweaking with the END reserve, and would need to be a bit more well rounded for a campaign as opposed to a one-shot game. Scrooginator - Ebeneezer Scrooge VAL...CHA...Cost...Total...Roll......Notes .6....STR.....-4...6/25......10- / 14-.......HTH Damage 1d6/5d6 END [1/3] 12....DEX......6...12/18......11- / 13-.......OCV 4/6 DCV 4/6 10....CON......0...10......11- 10....BODY.....0...10......11- 13....INT......3...13......12-.......PER Roll 12- 15....EGO.....10...15......12-.......ECV: 5 19....PRE......9...19......13-.......PRE Attack: 3 1/2d6 .8....COM.....-1...8......11- .2....PD.......1...2/22.............2/22 PD (0/20 rPD) .2....ED.......0...2/12.............2/12 ED (0/10 rED) .2....SPD......0...2/3.................Phases: 6, 12/4, 8, 12 .3....REC......0...3 20....END......0...20 18....STUN.....0...18 .4....RUN.....-4...4"/20"................END [1/4] .0....SWIM....-2...0"................END [0] .1....LEAP.....0...1"/4 1/2"................1"/4 1/2" forward, 0 1/2"/2" upward CHA Cost: 18 Cost...POWERS .....Steamech Suit, all slots OIF (-1/2) - END= 30.....1) Armor Plating: Armor (20 PD/10 ED) (45 Active Points); OIF (-1/2) - END=0 .4.....2) Very Heavy: Knockback Resistance -3" (6 Active Points); OIF (-1/2) - END=0 10.....3) Boiler: Endurance Reserve (45 END, 12 REC) Reserve: (16 Active Points); Fuel Dependent (fuel is Very Common; must refuel Once per 6 Hours; -3/4), OIF (-1/2); REC: (12 Active Points); OIF (-1/2) [Notes: Coal Fired Boiler] - END=0 .9.....4) Targeting Feeback Gyros: +6 DEX (18 Active Points); No Figured Characteristics (-1/2), OIF (-1/2) - END= .7.....5) Speed Boosting Relays: +1 SPD (10 Active Points); OIF (-1/2) - END= .9.....6) Augmetic Pistons: +19 STR (19 Active Points); No Figured Characteristics (-1/2), OIF (-1/2) - END=2 18.....7) Locomotor Legs: Running +16" (4"/20" total) (32 Active Points); OIF (-1/2), Turn Mode (-1/4) - END=3 40.....Steam Cannon: Multipower, 60-point reserve, (60 Active Points); all slots OIF (-1/2) - END= 3u.....1) Hotchkis Rotating Cannon: RKA 1 1/2d6, Autofire (5 shots; +1/2), 125 Charges (+3/4) (56 Active Points); Costs Endurance (-1/2), OIF (-1/2) - END=6 2u.....2) Steam Blast: EB 6d6, Area Of Effect (7" Cone; +1) (60 Active Points); Double Endurance Cost (-1/2), No Range (-1/2), OIF (-1/2) - END=6 2u.....3) Steam Cloud: Darkness to Sight Group 4" radius (40 Active Points); No Range (-1/2), OIF (-1/2) - END=4 POWERS Cost: 134 Cost...SKILLS 11......Bureaucratics 17- SKILLS Cost: 11 Cost...PERKS 5......Money: Well Off 10......Follower PERKS Cost: 15 Cost...TALENTS 3......Lightning Calculator TALENTS Cost: 3 Value..DISADVANTAGES 20.....Normal Characteristic Maxima 10.....Age: 60+ 20.....DNPC: Tiny Tim 8- (Incompetent; Unaware of character's adventuring career/Secret ID) 10.....Reputation: Mean Old Skinflint, 11- 10.....Physical Limitation: Very Heavy and Large (Infrequently, Greatly Impairing) [Notes: Does not float, sinks like a stone] DISADVANTAGES Points: 70 Base Pts: 200 Exp Required: 0 Total Exp Available: 0 Exp Unspent: 0 Total Character Cost: 181 Background/History Ebeneezer Scrooge was once a horrid miserable miser. However one Christmas, something happened to him, and he became a warm giving person. However, a lot of people still remember the old Scrooge, and expect him to revert soon, so they don't treat him with much respect. Personality/Motivation Once a miser, now a generous philanthropist. Scrooge works to better the lot of the poor unwashed masses, regardless of the wagging tongues of his peers. Quote "Here's your Christmas Goose!" Powers/Tactics Turns out, Bob Cratchett isn't just good with numbers, he's also not bad with a wrench. With generous funding by Scrooge Co, Bob was working on a steam-powered suit to ease the lot of the common laborer. Campaign Use Ebeneezer was planning for just another round of Christmas celebrations when he received a fateful Telegram on the Feast Day of St. Nicholas NORTH POLE SCROOGE NEED HELP STOP TRAVEL TO NEW YORK SOONEST STOP BRING BOB SUIT AND LOTS OF GUNS STOP SANTA The next day he was on a steam liner to New York with Bob, the suit, and a whole new list of modifications. Appearance An aged man, stooped and wrinkled. The years have not been kind to him, but lately he has a new joy of life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted December 16, 2008 Report Share Posted December 16, 2008 Re: Cristmas & Cthulhu Maybe we could arrange a crossover with--JINGLE FORCE FIVE! (Check out Professor X-Mas--) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korvar Posted December 16, 2008 Report Share Posted December 16, 2008 Re: Cristmas & Cthulhu If only we could rep Scott Kurtz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markdoc Posted December 16, 2008 Report Share Posted December 16, 2008 Re: Cristmas & Cthulhu From Neil Gaiman's website' date=' excerpted from [i']Smoke and Mirrors[/i] his poem Our D20 GM has the card with that inside and the crucified santa on the outside: she props it up with the other christmas cards to ambush the unwary She also has the CDs "A very scary solstice" and "An even scarier solstice" with yuletide classics like "Mi-Go We Have Heard on High", "Oh Come All Ye Olde Ones" and "It's Beginning to Look a Lot like Fishmen" cheers, Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusterBoy Posted December 16, 2008 Report Share Posted December 16, 2008 Re: Cristmas & Cthulhu Oh, Markdoc, your D20 GM has been to the HP Lovecraft Historical Society site too, huh? Those guys rock. I like the Scrooginator, it's very . . . inventive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brionl Posted December 16, 2008 Report Share Posted December 16, 2008 Re: Cristmas & Cthulhu Well, I've got a couple of ideas for Frostilicus, The Great Cold One, aka "Frosty". But just background, no power sets besides cold. Santa could probably be done as a Super Patriot archetype with christmas themed powers. The polar regions are often a hot-spot of eldritch activity, so if we assume that the initial incursion erupted at his base, it could be wiped out, as was previously mentioned. Perhaps one of the elves was trying to improve efficiency a bit too much... Somebody else will have to do the Jingle Force Five though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrraBuss Posted December 22, 2008 Report Share Posted December 22, 2008 Re: Cristmas & Cthulhu So how does "Grandma Got Run Over By A Raindeer" fit in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted December 22, 2008 Report Share Posted December 22, 2008 Re: Cristmas & Cthulhu So how does "Grandma Got Run Over By A Raindeer" fit in? Poorly? Lucius Alexander got run over by a palindromedary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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