High PPE Characters in Dead Reign

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Re: High PPE Characters in Dead Reign

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gmapprentice wrote:A few questions. One, characters from other game settings tend to have above-average PPE. Does this mean that zombies can see and sense their PPE from longer distances?


I doubt the sensing portion of a zombie's powers are changed, though if you want to make them more dangerous to high PPE PCs then go for it. Seeing on the other hand would definately be changed. As the amount of PPE goes up, the "brighter" the PC will appear to zombies. Though they could still cover up like theregular people of DR to hide.

Now Creatures of Magic and supernatural creatures may have more of a problem. It's possible that the zombies can not only sense them at greater distances than the zombies can sense humans, but they'd need even thicker material to hide themselves from a zombie's sight.

Second, what happens if one of them dies by a zombie attack?


Unless it's a species that can't be transformed (Nightbane and True Atlanteans are two examples) then the victim should become a zombie.

How does the high level of PPE affect the zombies that killed him? Can they be supercharged by it?


I'm not really sure. My first guess is that a PPE level in the hundreds should bring zombies up to full power, and a PPE level in the thousands could supercharge them. Though I have no clue what a "supercharged" zombie entails.

And what about the dead character themself? Do they become a zombie with higher PPE? Are they more likely to become zombie variants?


They'd just have the normal amount of PPE the DR zombies have. As for becoming the different types, if you want them to sure, go for it.
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Zombie bait.
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hecubus23 wrote:I noticed that when one rolls up a character in DR, there is no ISP. Just thinking out loud that if one rolls for PPE and most every other Palladium game involves ISP, I guess that there would be some characters in DR that are psychically sensitive.

Just some more food for thought. If one character had psionic abilities and that character had Alter Aura, could this character walk among the zombies if he altered his PPE to zero?



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gmapprentice wrote:Maybe i'm not remembering this correctly, but i don't believe that Alter Aura has a "No PPE" setting. also, there's a time limit for it...
How about Mask PPE and ISP.
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hecubus23 wrote:Just some more food for thought.
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gmapprentice wrote:...was that a joke or something?

I laughed. Not sure if it was a joke though. ;-)
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gmapprentice wrote:...was that a joke or something?
Brains are for thinking. Zombies eat the brains. Brains are the food for thought in that joke.
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gmapprentice wrote:still has a time limit...
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