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Re: Mass Combat: An Idea
« Reply #15 on: August 28, 2011, 02:17:49 AM »
Just a caveat I thought of, but if using the mook rules doesn't feel "Dresden-y" enough(Because Harry doesn't usually end up fighting groups of much lesser characters), try turning the idea on its head: Have the Mooks fight against a BBM(Big Bad Monster), basically getting their asses handed to them, and have the PC's try to save as many as they can.

Got the idea reminiscing about the "Loup-Garou vs Chicago PD" fight. Fighting against something big while trying to protect the innocent is right up the Dresdenverse alley.
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Re: Mass Combat: An Idea
« Reply #16 on: August 28, 2011, 04:04:42 AM »
Here he is. Huge, strong, tough good at grappling, slow.

Also easy to hit. Enough bullets will bring him down. If you don't like that, give him a stunt letting him defend with Endurance.

I made most of this up whole cloth, I don't remember much from the movie.

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Re: Mass Combat: An Idea
« Reply #17 on: August 28, 2011, 09:52:55 AM »
Here he is. Huge, strong, tough good at grappling, slow.

Thresholds also apparently aren't much of an issue since he stomped a church.
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Re: Mass Combat: An Idea
« Reply #18 on: August 28, 2011, 07:34:32 PM »
Not sure how to model that.

Suggestions?

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Re: Mass Combat: An Idea
« Reply #19 on: August 29, 2011, 12:28:56 PM »
Not sure how to model that.

Suggestions?

Well he's not pure spirit. That was the whole point of making the guys choose a form for him. Also, he's really Gozer, who we can pretty much go with being an Outsider in the Dresden Files universe. So... Out of the four ways a threshold can operate if you let him treat it as a block or a target... Well, umpteen tons of animate marshmallow are hard to argue with. Smush.