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<blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 5019320" data-attributes="member: 7533"><p>Oh, normally, I'd agree, but this is preparation for a pick-up game of sorts. I very well might not know precisely what characters the players are playing until the night of.</p><p></p><p>Fortunately, I'm pretty good at adjusting things on the fly, so all I'm really looking for is some general scenarios I can toss at the players and see how they react. Then roll with it and see how it goes.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'd planned on having at least a few monkey minions... The original Tasloi are monkey-raccoon-men that live in jungle tree houses. They were definitely going to be monkey minions.</p><p></p><p>I hadn't thought of organ-grinder spies, though. I like that. I could even make the organ-grinder himself a gorilla in disguise.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Not exactly. I'm patterning him off of the classic War of the Worlds Martians, whose tripod fighting machines were several stories tall. In that sense, it already is a smaller pod.</p><p></p><p>I plan on portraying him as a sort cross between Krang from TMNT, and Kang and Kodos from the Simpsons. Out of his tripod machine, he'll look something like a wrinkly, leathery squid with only one eye.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Perhaps... That actually gives me an idea...</p><p></p><p>In Cairo, the Universal Gadget for his Tripod will be "Alternate Usage (can use Science in place of Burglary) and Alternate Usage (can use Science in place of Contacting for the Gather Information and Getting Off The Tip effects)."</p><p></p><p>That represents his little spy probes (which look something like miniature Sputniks with six metal tentacles) running around the city trying to find the secret document that holds the location of the Forbidden City.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pbartender, post: 5019320, member: 7533"] Oh, normally, I'd agree, but this is preparation for a pick-up game of sorts. I very well might not know precisely what characters the players are playing until the night of. Fortunately, I'm pretty good at adjusting things on the fly, so all I'm really looking for is some general scenarios I can toss at the players and see how they react. Then roll with it and see how it goes. I'd planned on having at least a few monkey minions... The original Tasloi are monkey-raccoon-men that live in jungle tree houses. They were definitely going to be monkey minions. I hadn't thought of organ-grinder spies, though. I like that. I could even make the organ-grinder himself a gorilla in disguise. Not exactly. I'm patterning him off of the classic War of the Worlds Martians, whose tripod fighting machines were several stories tall. In that sense, it already is a smaller pod. I plan on portraying him as a sort cross between Krang from TMNT, and Kang and Kodos from the Simpsons. Out of his tripod machine, he'll look something like a wrinkly, leathery squid with only one eye. Perhaps... That actually gives me an idea... In Cairo, the Universal Gadget for his Tripod will be "Alternate Usage (can use Science in place of Burglary) and Alternate Usage (can use Science in place of Contacting for the Gather Information and Getting Off The Tip effects)." That represents his little spy probes (which look something like miniature Sputniks with six metal tentacles) running around the city trying to find the secret document that holds the location of the Forbidden City. [/QUOTE]
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