Gargamel vs. the Smurfs

[StupidSmurf]

I really don't have anything important or relevant to add, I just thought that, given my name, I was morally obligated to post something, you know?

La, la, la-la-la-DUUUUHHHHHH!!!

 

[Ace]

I hope you post a write up for Gargamel in the rogues gallery.

I just may rip off the grig/ gargamel for next game in fact -- its quite cool

I have been tempted to use Gargamel and his cat as good NPC's fighting a lonely war against a race of extra planar LN hive mind beings (my Smurf analoges)

These Smurfs would have Wizards (the eldest Papa) reproduce by budding and have mind control abilities. Each Smurf would have a designation Strong, Brainy and so on within the hive and a desire to control and assimilate all of mankind

In groups they could do bardic abilities (tra la la la la tra la la la la) and do other nasty things too

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I likely will. But remember he's half Gargamel, half Tabriz-umon the Black (from KAMB).

I'm just doing all the rough strokes of the setting right now. Since it's just one barony, and he's a regional power, I've gotten to this level of detail, but not much further so far.

At the moment, he's a neutral evil human wizard from Kem with a cat familiar. Given that fairygold (which is going to be a modified stone to flesh that only works on tiny fey and has an extra twist or two) is a transmutation spell, I may or may not make him a transmuter.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

Any suggestions? Why did Gargamel want to kill the Smurfs?

Because he hated them, just like I did. Hated them so bad.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The next question: If you turned a grig into gold and melted it down, how much gold would you have, and how much would it be worth?

 

[Particle_Man]

Hey wait a second. Since Gargamel made Smurfette, why didn't he just make enough Smurfettes to use in his "Smurf to gold" formula? (I am wayyyy overthinking this)

Also, didn't they add, late in the series, a Grandpa and Grandma smurf? I can't imagine the origins of the latter.

 

[Fieari]

Probably because the material components required for the manufacture of Smurfette exceeds the amount of gold that would be harvested. He made Smurfette as an investment, spend a little gold now, get ALL the Smurfs, have a LOT of gold in return.

I have no idea where Grandma Smurf came from.

 

[Ukyo the undead]

Hey wait a second. Since Gargamel made Smurfette, why didn't he just make enough Smurfettes to use in his "Smurf to gold" formula? (I am wayyyy overthinking this)

Also, didn't they add, late in the series, a Grandpa and Grandma smurf? I can't imagine the origins of the latter.

Or the fact that she isn´t really a "natural" smurf makes her useless as special component to the alchemy.


I have another question: time to time, Gargamel gets to catch some smurfs ( and I think once or twice he grabbed everyone, with the a lone exception that figured out some way to free the others).

Why didnt he used the available smurfs to make gold? Why keep searching for all the others smurfs?

 

[Rystil Arden]

Or the fact that she isn´t really a "natural" smurf makes her useless as special component to the alchemy.


I have another question: time to time, Gargamel gets to catch some smurfs ( and I think once or twice he grabbed everyone, with the a lone exception that figured out some way to free the others).

Why didnt he used the available smurfs to make gold? Why keep searching for all the others smurfs?

The one time I saw that he caught them all except one, he did indeed start up his spell to turn them into gold, but the last one freed them before the spell was ready.

 

[Tinner]

I have another question: time to time, Gargamel gets to catch some smurfs ( and I think once or twice he grabbed everyone, with the a lone exception that figured out some way to free the others).

Why didnt he used the available smurfs to make gold? Why keep searching for all the others smurfs?

You have to remember that after all those years of living alone, Gargamel was a seriously deranged and conflicted old dude.
C'mon, he talked to his cat all the time, cackled like a madman - he was nuts.

So whenever he'd catch a smurf, he'd have this long soliloque about whether he wanted to eat them, or make gold, or just torture them for all the horrible pranks they pulled on him.

Secretly I always cheered for Gargamel.

This thread has been hilarious.
Now I'm remembering all these other stupid smurf-sims you could add.

Big Mouth the Ogre.
Hogatha the Sorceress
Johan the Squire and PeeWit the bard/jester.
Don't forget Peewit's attack goat/familiar B'Ket

You totally need to have the grigs catch a disease that makes them all go insane and start bitting each other's behinds! And it makes them savage berserkers! Maybe make it lycanthropy and have some Grig/Monstrous Cricket were-crickets?