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Thu, 05/26/2005 - 22:20
Anonymous

Made some switches, axed some heads, narrowed her down, had my own voting, etc, etc...

Now remember make sure you are REALLY picturing all of these different freaks of nature standing next to each other in the same game, thats the point...

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    Pilgrim – Blunderbuss (ranged damage attack) Gorilla – Strength (throw opponents, other strength feats)
    Zombie – Infect (turn opponents into allies)
    Ninja – Sword & Stealth (close damage attack / good defense)
    Pygmy – Blowgun (ranged paralyze attack)
    Suicide Bomber – Explosive Vest (close area of effect attack)
    Witch – Curse (various negative effects)
    Nun – Morale Boost
    Clown – Confusion (make opponent re-roll, etc)
    Brain-In-A-Vat –Leadership

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Fri, 05/27/2005 - 01:19
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xantheman
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OK, Here's Where I'm at, Kids...

Nice list!

I want to make one more case for Flying Nuns as close air support, Flocks of Flying Nuns with Uzis. If I saw a Flock of Flying Nuns with Uzis coming at me, I would know that my days were numbered.

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Fri, 05/27/2005 - 10:59
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Anonymous
OK, Here's Where I'm at, Kids...

Maybe the singular Flying Nun had off spring... oh wait shes a nun... darn.

For my thing here I would also like a flying support piece, and a couple other Icons with basic powers that are missing from the mix... but for my guidelines, i need something more common and clone-able.... hmmmm...

I wish ninjas could fly.... must think.

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Fri, 05/27/2005 - 11:14
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Rocket Man?

Maybe something classical like

or more modern with a spaceman style jetpack

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Fri, 05/27/2005 - 12:45
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Here are some suggestions for flyers:

Carrier Pigeons with cluster bombs

Someone shot from a cannon, maybe lawyers or c.e.o.s

Lunch Ladies in hot air balloons, imagine what horrific things they could drop...

Zeppelins full of Zapatistas

Helicoptors with live turkey bombs, anyone remember WKRP in Cincinnati?

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Fri, 05/27/2005 - 14:44
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Last I checked, most witches could fly.

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Fri, 05/27/2005 - 14:49
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They all seem to fit in there own weird way, except for Pilgrim. What is blunderbuss???

Also, a suicide bomber would need some type of flying device or he wouldn't be a bomber, just a crazy guy running around with a bomb strapped to his chest.

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Fri, 05/27/2005 - 15:10
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A blunderbuss is one of those guns the Pilgrims had, with the funny trumpet like thing at the end of the barrell.

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Fri, 05/27/2005 - 15:41
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Class organisation

The problem with character class, is that there are an infinity of them (^_^)

If you wish, you could classify you class into groups from general to specific. Make a tree of class. The base class group will have a general power available to all class in this group. And each class group can have many other specific class that each has 1 unique ability.

If you use this system, you can manage an large amount of class easily. Expandability will also be easier and if you make class specific rules, you only use the class group. Since the groups will always stay the same, you won't have to readapt your rules if you or the players makes new classes.

It's just a suggestion.

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Fri, 05/27/2005 - 15:47
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Anonymous
OK, Here's Where I'm at, Kids...

Nando wrote:
Last I checked, most witches could fly.

beat me to it

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Fri, 05/27/2005 - 20:53
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Anonymous
OK, Here's Where I'm at, Kids...

Witches on broomsticks - that could be my answer - great catch!
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The class system is simple *power/abbility* based - each nutty icon has one or two special abilities/functions...
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the trick is to balance them so that people will want to diversify... or not... i like the freedom... if it works of course. Bob has 12 clowns 4 Witches 2 Nuns and a Brain-in-a-Vat.... Bill has 60 Pilgrims. Or imagine when Mary walks in with an all Brain-in-a-Vat team... love it.

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Interesting, the hardest laughs I have gotten so far is when imagining a dozen PILGRIMS with those corny hats and those wonderful wonderful blunderbuss' firing upon a horde of charging Ninjas... pure comedy.

And pilgrims are much more PC than the Amish and the Hacedic Jews (other excellent options i considered). We can make fun of Pilgrims all day long and not one sappy ethical treatment group will come down on us.

I wanted one and only one gunpowder firearm carrying troop type that was unlike any other in this mad mad mad gameworld... and Pilgrim rose to the occasion... turkey anyone?

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Fri, 05/27/2005 - 21:09
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Anonymous
OK, Here's Where I'm at, Kids...

The flying guys were good options, but gotta keep it more broad and almost common in a weird way...

Here are some additional slots I am wanting to fill with an ICONIC:

Flight (Witch may be the winner)

Shield or Barrier

Toughness (may just combine with strength (currently Gorilla is winning))

Heal - and I dont wanna go mystical heal, but a doctor or nurse is boring... hmmmm....

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Fri, 05/27/2005 - 21:54
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Anonymous
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Quote:

Also, a suicide bomber would need some type of flying device or he wouldn't be a bomber, just a crazy guy running around with a bomb strapped to his chest.

Um... actually no.

Suicide bomber is the term used for insurgents that strap explosives onto their chest and run into a cafe on a sunday afternoon. Furthermore, a suicide bomber who was flying a plane or driving a vehicle probably would have the explosives on or in the vehicle rather than strapped to their own person, so they would be more effective.

Also note that Ted Kaczynski did not employ a flying device yet was dumbed the UnaBomber.

So I would have to say that *Suicide Bomber* is a common term for either that newer Icon in the media with the funny flowing robes on, or even the more classic interpretation of the guy walking into the bank with the red sticks of dynamite all over his body and the little button in his hand. ("He's got a Bomb!")

Perhaps any succesful suicide bombers can add there two cents here?

Oh... wait...

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Fri, 05/27/2005 - 22:29
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Anonymous
OK, Here's Where I'm at, Kids...

How about a granny running around with a box of bandaids for your healer. Give her a hair brush for a weapon. (If ya think a hair brush doesn't hurt, you never went to church with my grandma.)

Shield or Barrier - The Fat lady from the circus, perhaps.

Fantastic comedy, funny stuff to be sure.

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Sat, 05/28/2005 - 16:49
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Hi, sounds like a lot of fun. Do you plan to turn it into some kind of fun/strategy game? something like using a chessboard, the mentioned characters and some dice to battle it out between a conan-like-barbarian and a super comical the jetsons character?

what about statistics? like attack, defence, move and lifepoints values? what about rolling dice and adding those statistics and the better one deals the difference of the total value in damage points to the other character? well... uh-oh creativity boost...

well. give them all the same basic attributes and ONE SINGLE super-special and unique power/ability/skill/talent each. keep the overall system simple, simple but effective.

Viking
Oversized Opera Singer
Lifeguard
Indiana Jones
'over the top' superhero

and - how could i forget - my must have suggestion:

a lawyer

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