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<blockquote data-quote="STARP_Social_Officer" data-source="post: 3062408" data-attributes="member: 41202"><p>Maybe this belongs in the "House Rules" segment, but I had an idea last night I'd like to share. It's silly, but a little silliness is needed in our work-a-day world. Anyway, my idea is this: cartoon role-playing. By this, I mean adding elements to a campaign to make it like animation. I'm not referring to anime here -I mean <em>cartoons</em>, like Looney Tunes. Have abilities so characters can do stuff that only happens in cartoons. Let me demonstrate:</p><p></p><p><strong>Feat:Meep! Meep!</strong></p><p>A character with this feat can cheat fate, even death, and escape totally uninjured from any catastrophe, even averting the disaster completely. Once per day, the character can invoke the Meep! Meep! feat, and completely avoid the effects of any situation that would injure or disadvantage him. He can totally avoid any damage from any spell, survive an anvil falling on top of him, or avoid being trampled by a herd of elephants.</p><p></p><p><strong>Feat:Is it Real?</strong></p><p>A character with this feet can treat any illusion or other deception as a real depiction of the object. Thus, a character with this feet can walk through an illusory door, interact with, and hit, an illusory creature, or pull a picture off a wall and have it turn into a real item. The ability functions exclusively for the creature with the feat. If any other character attempts to do the same thing, nothing happens. Thus, a character with this feat can run through a picture of a tunnel painted onto a cliff face; another character attempting to do so will hit the wall.</p><p></p><p><strong>Feat: It IS Real!</strong></p><p>Prerequisite: Is it Real?</p><p>This feat is similar to Is it Real, but images or illusions used by the character become real and solid, permanently and for every character. Thus, the character could run through a fake tunnel and have his pursuers do likewise. However, any other character attempting to use the device or object is 50% likely to suffer negative consequences - if chasing someone through the above tunnel, for example, there is a 50% chance a train comes out.</p><p></p><p><strong>Feat: Defy Gravity</strong></p><p>This feat allows a character to walk on thin air as long as he or she is not concentrating. The ability activates automatically when a character walks over a cliff or other high location. The ability duplicates air walk and functions for 1 round. After 1 round, the character must <em>fail </em> a Concentration check to continue using the ability for another round. If he passes the check, he falls instantly and takes full falling damage (unless he has the THUD! feat; see below).</p><p></p><p><strong>Feat: THUD!</strong></p><p>A character with this feet takes half-damage from all falls, from any distance. In addition, upon landing the character is automatically able to get up and walk away, though he takes a -2 penalty to all checks for one minute due to the birds flying around his head.</p><p></p><p><strong>Feat:Bump on the Noggin</strong></p><p>This feat allows a character, once per day, to convert any damage into an equivilant amount of nonlethal damage. He can apply it to any damage he chooses, even damage that would otherwise result in death. The side-effect is that this causes little birds to fly around the character's head, and that he grows a large bump on his head which is one inch tall for every point of damage taken. The bump shrinks as the damage is healed.</p><p></p><p>Has anybody got any more ideas? I think I might be on to something here...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="STARP_Social_Officer, post: 3062408, member: 41202"] Maybe this belongs in the "House Rules" segment, but I had an idea last night I'd like to share. It's silly, but a little silliness is needed in our work-a-day world. Anyway, my idea is this: cartoon role-playing. By this, I mean adding elements to a campaign to make it like animation. I'm not referring to anime here -I mean [I]cartoons[/I], like Looney Tunes. Have abilities so characters can do stuff that only happens in cartoons. Let me demonstrate: [B]Feat:Meep! Meep![/B] A character with this feat can cheat fate, even death, and escape totally uninjured from any catastrophe, even averting the disaster completely. Once per day, the character can invoke the Meep! Meep! feat, and completely avoid the effects of any situation that would injure or disadvantage him. He can totally avoid any damage from any spell, survive an anvil falling on top of him, or avoid being trampled by a herd of elephants. [B]Feat:Is it Real?[/B] A character with this feet can treat any illusion or other deception as a real depiction of the object. Thus, a character with this feet can walk through an illusory door, interact with, and hit, an illusory creature, or pull a picture off a wall and have it turn into a real item. The ability functions exclusively for the creature with the feat. If any other character attempts to do the same thing, nothing happens. Thus, a character with this feat can run through a picture of a tunnel painted onto a cliff face; another character attempting to do so will hit the wall. [B]Feat: It IS Real![/B] Prerequisite: Is it Real? This feat is similar to Is it Real, but images or illusions used by the character become real and solid, permanently and for every character. Thus, the character could run through a fake tunnel and have his pursuers do likewise. However, any other character attempting to use the device or object is 50% likely to suffer negative consequences - if chasing someone through the above tunnel, for example, there is a 50% chance a train comes out. [B]Feat: Defy Gravity[/B] This feat allows a character to walk on thin air as long as he or she is not concentrating. The ability activates automatically when a character walks over a cliff or other high location. The ability duplicates air walk and functions for 1 round. After 1 round, the character must [I]fail [/I] a Concentration check to continue using the ability for another round. If he passes the check, he falls instantly and takes full falling damage (unless he has the THUD! feat; see below). [B]Feat: THUD![/B] A character with this feet takes half-damage from all falls, from any distance. In addition, upon landing the character is automatically able to get up and walk away, though he takes a -2 penalty to all checks for one minute due to the birds flying around his head. [B]Feat:Bump on the Noggin[/B] This feat allows a character, once per day, to convert any damage into an equivilant amount of nonlethal damage. He can apply it to any damage he chooses, even damage that would otherwise result in death. The side-effect is that this causes little birds to fly around the character's head, and that he grows a large bump on his head which is one inch tall for every point of damage taken. The bump shrinks as the damage is healed. Has anybody got any more ideas? I think I might be on to something here... [/QUOTE]
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