Send In The Clowns… (or, Converting the Oddballs)

freyar · Apr 11, 2011

This is good for me!

Shade · Apr 12, 2011

Ditto here. Add Mortis's revision, and it looks great!

Cleon · Apr 12, 2011

Mortis said:
It sort of reads that you must have the Autohypnosis skill to attempt this rather than either that or Concentration.

Maybe change it to

Normally, a toon will always fall if it deliberately jumps instead of merely slipping or falling. However, a toon may use the Autohypnosis or Concentration skill to convince itself it's walking on something solid, the toon must succeed at a DC 20 skill check every round.

Mortis

Fine by me, or we could do it like this.

However, a toon may use the Autohypnosis or Concentration skill to convince itself it's walking on something solid, this requires a successful DC 20 skill check every round.

Mortis · Apr 13, 2011

Cleon said:
However, a toon may use the Autohypnosis or Concentration skill to convince itself it's walking on something solid, this requires a successful DC 20 skill check every round.

That looks go as well.

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Mortis

Cleon · Apr 13, 2011

Mortis said:
That looks go as well.

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Mortis

I'm OK either way, so shall we proceed to the trickier question of Donald's Toon Invulnerability?

freyar · Apr 14, 2011

I wouldn't mind what you suggested above:

Cleon said:
My preference would be making him effectively unkillable - regeneration plus rejuvenation plus immunity to "Save or Dies".

Cleon · Apr 15, 2011

freyar said:
I wouldn't mind what you suggested above:

Let's start on that then.

Rather than immunity to "save or dies" and "save or suck" it'd be closer to say that they only affect a Toon for a few rounds. Something like.

Some Name [Cartoon Elasticity?] (Ex): A toon can not be permanently killed, injured or transformed by any weapon or power. If an attack inflicts a special condition on a toon (stunned, confused, paralysed, dead et cetera), the condition will affect the toon for a maximum of X rounds, after which the toon fully recovers its abilities and health, even springing back to life if the attack killed the toon. Toons can also recover from any transformation effect, including those that would destroy the toon. A petrified or disintegrated toon will only remain a statue or dust for X rounds before returning to its original form.

What about a sphere of annihilation, can that destroy a toon?

Since they're only temporarily affected by the "Dead" condition we could give them Fast Healing instead of Regeneration, but I think Regeneration is a better fit.

Regeneration (Ex): A toon regenerates at X hit points per round. If an attack severs a body part, the toon can reattach the part as a standard action. If it can't recover a severed part, the lost part(s) will mysteriously vanish and reappear on the toon Y rounds after it was severed.

Are we going to introduce a "Dip" that can kill a toon? Since they're literally living 3 dimensional pictures, maybe erase can hurt a toon?

Do we want to include a "massive damage causes temporary body displacement" ability, like the way Daffy Duck's face might end up backwards after he's shot in the face?

freyar · Apr 16, 2011

Umm, let's say yes to the sphere. Hard to imagine avoiding that. What about a bag of devouring? Hmmph.

Rejuvenation often has some condition that ends it; we could just mention under rejuvenation that there are rumors of substances that can destroy toons.

Cleon · Apr 17, 2011

freyar said:
Umm, let's say yes to the sphere. Hard to imagine avoiding that. What about a bag of devouring? Hmmph.

Yes, I was thinking they could be killed via annihilation - it's effectively an ultimate form of paint-dissolver.

As for bags of devouring I don't think they'd kill a Toon. It's just a rather peculiar form of digestion. The Toon might end up displaced into another dimension, though.

freyar said:
Rejuvenation often has some condition that ends it; we could just mention under rejuvenation that there are rumors of substances that can destroy toons.

That'd be OK by me.