Pennywise, IT, Haunted Carnivals, New Campaign. Help?

[Angelsboi]

In the book/movie IT, They destroyed Pennywise the first time with the silver and 'battery acid' inhaler. Yet, when they were adults, they had to destroy its physical form and the inhaler didnt do it.

I want to creat Pennywise as the kids fought him and Pennywise as the adults fought him.

Help?

 

[Azure Trance]

Please, please, PLEASE READ THE BOOK!

It's so much better, and will give you a huge new look on what Pennywise is and his capabilities.

 

[Furn_Darkside]

Wow, this could be tough.

IT was hurt by the children because they believed they could hurt it. They believed in the silver and the battery acid. It is a creature of belief- it feeds off of the terror of children and the ignorance of adults, while afraid of courage and confidence.

As adults, they did not believe as strongly in their ability to hurt IT, so the battery acid was totally ignored.

How does this work in d&d?

Well, if you tip the players off it is belief- then they could believe wooden spoons will hurt it, and that will be that. PC's are also rarely afraid of monsters- and dive right in.. not quite the thing IT would be fond of.

You might be better off in CoC d20 or Modern d20- and making a rule that children can hurt it, but IT has high DR against adults. That is the most basic route.

Ok, time for my favorite piece of IT trivia. In the book, it seems they kill IT.

However- in the horrible novel the Tommyknockers, which takes place after the good novel IT, one of the people visits Derry- they see IT for a brief moment.

Writer mess up.. or interesting easter egg? Mwu-hahaha.

FD

 

[Azure Trance]

And IIRC, the second time in the book they had some odd mental/hyperphysical fight against him. I can't remember what exactly since it's been a while, but ...

The turtle can't help you now ~Ben

 

[Angelsboi]

actually im starting the PCs off as 1st level commoners and then advancing the game 13 years and they are 5th level adventurers who are reuinited to fight IT ... Er ... the monster ...

Anywho .. No, Pennywise is supposed to be in the Tommyknockers =)

 

[maddman75]

Its been awhile since I read it, but I'll see what I remember.

Illusion magic is essential. Most of pennywise's murders could be explained by Phantasmal Killer. That and an insanity inducing version.

One idea would be to use the Ravenloft ability Innocence. Basically, a character can choose to be Innocent so long as they never have committed an evil act or faced with deep, unsettling evil. Such a character could make a Will save in order to believe that anything could hurt pennywise.

For the 'adult' version - looks like some big nasty fiendish thing to me. though he still has the illusion powers and the abilities to use them at a distance.

Oh, and do read the book. It is very good, and you learn all kinds of things that didn't make the movie - like all the boys having sex with Beverly on their way down to fight him the first time. They needed to all bond to each other appearantly.

 

[Angelsboi]

i read the book ages ago but its been a while.

 

[Piratecat]

You know this doesn't belong here, AB!

Every time you put a thread in the wrong forum, somewhere a kitten dies... and a moderator becomes cranky.

 

[Kamard]

I never liked that the boys all had sex with Beverly. It always unsettled me and seemed like an entirely meaningless, contrived reason to have what amounts to an underaged gangbang.

I mean, good lord, these kids could have just become "blood brothers" and that be that. But no, they bonded over sex. I don't know.

Meh. One bad point of a big, long, cool book.

 

[Angelsboi]

sorry P Kitty. I was actually referring to D&D so i thought it was int he right forums. My bad.

So does anyone have suggestions as to what the creature would be? Stats, feats, Skills, etc?