Re: [HOE] The Destroyer (SPOILERS)

[Brett Dixon <balance@tubas.net>]

On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 01:10  PM, mosiondz@shaw.ca wrote:
> Modeen is one baaaaad dude.  Although it's not explicitly stated in 
> his profile, it is mentioned earlier on that he has: "Invulnerability: 
> as a servitor of the Reckoners, Modeen can only be killed by the sword 
> of the first Anti-Templar, Julia Aitken.  All Templars know this sword 
> is kept in the Temple at Boise."
> How do other Marshals handle things like Invulnerability described 
> like this?  Can critters with it be temporarily be put out of 
> comission, or do they just shrug off all incoming damage?  Do they 
> disappear and reform later?  Do they regenerate all damage at the end 
> of every round unless the damage is caused by their vulnerability?
> In the case of Modeen (and especially because of the description of 
> his fight with Aaron O'Connel)  it seems that he would shrug off all 
> damage unless it was caused by the aforementioned sword, in which case 
> it would do damage normally until Modeen was dead.
> How would you handle Modeen?

For anything abomination-level, it's just shrugged off. depending on 
the critter, it's absorbed (A large famine-monster that was grotesquely 
obese just absorbed gunfire, explosions, sword strikes, etc. with a 
schlorp noise) takes chunks out but doesn't stop the thing (see below), 
passes through the unwholesome beast, or other.

Walkin' Dead may lose limbs, however, So I alow the 'comedy' of having 
dismembered skeletons trying to kill the party.

last night my posse fought a massive 'Glom. I trimmed it a little, as 
according to the stats it would have been something like size 60 with 
hordes of hand to hand attacks and a 10% chance of hitting it's real 
head whenever a head-hit was rolled.

I allowed hits on the 'real' head on a 10% chance for the 'head' or the 
guts. Even so, a fairly well-equipped Hell On Earth posse (with a 
Doomsayer with Nuke and MIRV, and a Syker with Arson) ended up having 
to kill the thing by letting the Templar drop a Doomstone in it's belly 
then running for the hills. I may have fudged the rules a bit 
(Actually, I only gave it 2d6 massive damage hits, automatically in the 
guts, with the usual 10% chance of hitting the real main head). They 
still took it out though, and I didn't worry about some minor details.

After all, in two weeks the other shoe drops.