In the jungle, the hobo jungle..
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:17 pm
In the jungle, the Hobo jungle. Two new PC's come to light!
In the jungle, the Hobo jungle. Mutant tiger eyes are shining bright!
Ladies and Gentlemen, Gm's and Gamers, Please allow me to introduce my newest Pc.." " The mutant tiger. Protector of the Hobo jungle.
(A TMNT&OS PC)
I honestly haven't thought of a name for him yet. I'm thinking Darkclaw, but who names a hobo tiger mutant Darkclaw?
FEEL FREE TO SUBMIT NAME SUGGESTIONS.
The IRL story. After last nights gaming the session the GM and I were sitting around discussing how much fun we were having with the 100% random 98% RAW characters (surprisingly both 100% legit rolled Ninja's) we were playing (as compared to the ones where we fudged the rules quite a bit). I mentioned that I'd been brainstorming an idea on how to allow him some play time with me as GM by resurrecting a PC of his that had unfairly died. I told him that all I'd come up with was the name, "Welcome to the Jungle" and the starting setting "you wake up in a hobo jungle deep in a massive garbage dump." This switched the conversation back to our 2 ninja who were now homeless and camped out in an abandoned underground utility service tunnel/chamber. We joked about avoiding tourists who want to see the sites of abandoned NYC and running into other homeless folks. Somehow we came up with the idea to again 100% random roll 99% RAW (1's and 2's for attributes are rerolled), 2 new PC's to introduce into our Ninja PC campaign.
I kid you not faithful readers, while we rolled different mutation causes (me accidental encounter/him random mutation), we both rolled the EXACT same education. By skulking around the fringes of society the character picks up a rudimentary education. The character probably has a small number of human friends but distrusts people in general. yadda yadda. I almost died laughing. Here we had been talking about hobo's and people living outside of normal society and the Dice Gods drop 2 of them into our laps.
So without further ado. The (as of yet) nameless tiger hobo
Character Name: (seriously I don't know yet. gotta figure it out by 10pm EST)
“If the city won't protect and care for the lost and forgotten, then I will. The same way they looked after me when no one else would.”
Flavor Text: Name two things that shouldn't ever be mixed together, a genius level intellect with an interest in genetic experimentation and a severe case of ADD. Our absent minded geneticist surely has a name, but it's not important. What is important is the way he would completely forget about one experiment once he became fixated on another. Having successfully grown a Maltese Tiger cub in an incubator, for no other reason than to see if the coloration was a pigment mutation or if it belonged to a separate species. The cub was soon forgotten and neglected. It should also be noted that along with forgetting to feed and care for the cub, the scientist also forgot to properly secure the pen it was kept in. After several days without food, the little tiger cub managed to nose his way out of the pen one night and into the lab. Like most young animals will do when faced with extreme hunger, the cub tried to eat whatever it could get into its mouth. Unfortunately the first thing it came across was an uncovered petri dish growing a culture of random human dna mixed with a particularly robust strain of retro-virus. This, like so many other projects, was something the scientist had done just to see if he could and then neglected to handle properly.
__________ never knew the name of the scientist who bred him, or why. He doesn't even really know how he came to be the way he is. His earliest memories are of being neglected and very very hungry. With the hunger he remembers a fire that started deep in his belly that no matter how fast he ran he couldn't escape. It burned through him with a pain far worse than being hungry had ever been. He doesn't remember the lab or how he escaped. He doesn't remember passing out. But he does remember waking up wrapped in a ragged, dirty blanket while being rocked gently by someone who spoke softly to him and fed him for the first time in a long while.
Cared for and raised, not by one family, but by the entire homeless community in his area _________ has learned the skills needed to survive a life on the streets. He's also learned that apart from his extended adoptive family, most of the city rejects and shuns him for being one of the many homeless. Their reaction to him being a mutant and a tiger hasn't been any better. Regardless, the down and out look out for him and he'll do whatever he can to do the same for them. _________ has an interesting relationship with those in his "community". He provides them with protection from harassment and finds "conveniently" unlocked buildings when the weather is bad and "extra" resources when there is less than enough to get by. In return the humans and other mutants share what they have with him in genuine appreciation. This isn't a protection racket or anything of the sort. Everyone helps out in whatever way they can, so that everyone has enough to make it a little bit longer.
Real Name: unknown
Aliases: (no idea yet)
Experience Level: 1
Power Category: Mutant Animal
Alignment: Undecided as of yet. May be Anarchist or Miscreant (Sometimes you've got to do bad things just to stay warm and fed.)
Attributes: IQ. 12 ME. 21 MA. 14 PS. 20 PP. 21 PE. 16 PB. 10 Spd. 27
Hit Points: 21, S.D.C.: 48
Age: ?? , Sex: Male, Height: 5'6", Weight: 100lbs
Appearance: large, wide head with massive jaws, broad nose, wide set eyes and ears on top, thick slate grey fur with dark grey/black stripes, long, lean body, long furred tail, powerful arms and legs.
Animal Type: Maltese Tiger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_tiger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maltese_Tiger.jpg
Total Bio-E: 5
Hands: Full
Speech: Partial (If you can imagine if someone trying to talk and snore at the same time Google tiger sounds, they make a snorey/growling sound).
Bipedal: Full
Looks: None
Animal Powers: 2D6 Retractable Claws
Education Level: Self taught
Skill Programs: N/A
Skills: Athletics, Body Building, Climbing, Prowl, Running, Swimming, Land Navigation, Pick locks, Pick pockets, First aid, Fishing, Sewing.
W.P. Skills: Blunt, Chain
Combat Style: Hand to Hand Basic
Combat Abilities: 2 APM, +3 Roll with Punch/Fall, +1 Strike with body block/tackle 1D4 damage
Combat Bonuses: +3 Strike, +4 Parry, +8 Dodge
Other Bonuses: +5% Save vs Coma/Death. +1 Save vs poison/toxins
Money: $2,400
Weapons: none yet
Items: none yet
Equipment: none yet
I appreciate and look forward to your thoughts/feedback.
On a side note. Does anyone else think the TMNT tiger gets robbed? 15 bio-e for 2D6 claws when a house cat spends 10 bio-e for 2D6 climbing claws! Sorry, but tiger claws completely own ***** cat claws. Also, if I have to pay extra for them I should get an extra D6 of damage out of it. Also, to avoid being a super midget, you've either got to give up human features or animal powers. Otherwise you can buy your full hands/biped/speech/claws/teeth but you wind up like size level 5. No one is going to be threatened by a 3ft tiger. Even at 5'6" I think he's kind of shrimpy as far as my conception of a mutant tiger goes.
Feel free to add your thoughts about that as well.
In the jungle, the Hobo jungle. Mutant tiger eyes are shining bright!
Ladies and Gentlemen, Gm's and Gamers, Please allow me to introduce my newest Pc.." " The mutant tiger. Protector of the Hobo jungle.
(A TMNT&OS PC)
I honestly haven't thought of a name for him yet. I'm thinking Darkclaw, but who names a hobo tiger mutant Darkclaw?
FEEL FREE TO SUBMIT NAME SUGGESTIONS.
The IRL story. After last nights gaming the session the GM and I were sitting around discussing how much fun we were having with the 100% random 98% RAW characters (surprisingly both 100% legit rolled Ninja's) we were playing (as compared to the ones where we fudged the rules quite a bit). I mentioned that I'd been brainstorming an idea on how to allow him some play time with me as GM by resurrecting a PC of his that had unfairly died. I told him that all I'd come up with was the name, "Welcome to the Jungle" and the starting setting "you wake up in a hobo jungle deep in a massive garbage dump." This switched the conversation back to our 2 ninja who were now homeless and camped out in an abandoned underground utility service tunnel/chamber. We joked about avoiding tourists who want to see the sites of abandoned NYC and running into other homeless folks. Somehow we came up with the idea to again 100% random roll 99% RAW (1's and 2's for attributes are rerolled), 2 new PC's to introduce into our Ninja PC campaign.
I kid you not faithful readers, while we rolled different mutation causes (me accidental encounter/him random mutation), we both rolled the EXACT same education. By skulking around the fringes of society the character picks up a rudimentary education. The character probably has a small number of human friends but distrusts people in general. yadda yadda. I almost died laughing. Here we had been talking about hobo's and people living outside of normal society and the Dice Gods drop 2 of them into our laps.
So without further ado. The (as of yet) nameless tiger hobo
Character Name: (seriously I don't know yet. gotta figure it out by 10pm EST)
“If the city won't protect and care for the lost and forgotten, then I will. The same way they looked after me when no one else would.”
Flavor Text: Name two things that shouldn't ever be mixed together, a genius level intellect with an interest in genetic experimentation and a severe case of ADD. Our absent minded geneticist surely has a name, but it's not important. What is important is the way he would completely forget about one experiment once he became fixated on another. Having successfully grown a Maltese Tiger cub in an incubator, for no other reason than to see if the coloration was a pigment mutation or if it belonged to a separate species. The cub was soon forgotten and neglected. It should also be noted that along with forgetting to feed and care for the cub, the scientist also forgot to properly secure the pen it was kept in. After several days without food, the little tiger cub managed to nose his way out of the pen one night and into the lab. Like most young animals will do when faced with extreme hunger, the cub tried to eat whatever it could get into its mouth. Unfortunately the first thing it came across was an uncovered petri dish growing a culture of random human dna mixed with a particularly robust strain of retro-virus. This, like so many other projects, was something the scientist had done just to see if he could and then neglected to handle properly.
__________ never knew the name of the scientist who bred him, or why. He doesn't even really know how he came to be the way he is. His earliest memories are of being neglected and very very hungry. With the hunger he remembers a fire that started deep in his belly that no matter how fast he ran he couldn't escape. It burned through him with a pain far worse than being hungry had ever been. He doesn't remember the lab or how he escaped. He doesn't remember passing out. But he does remember waking up wrapped in a ragged, dirty blanket while being rocked gently by someone who spoke softly to him and fed him for the first time in a long while.
Cared for and raised, not by one family, but by the entire homeless community in his area _________ has learned the skills needed to survive a life on the streets. He's also learned that apart from his extended adoptive family, most of the city rejects and shuns him for being one of the many homeless. Their reaction to him being a mutant and a tiger hasn't been any better. Regardless, the down and out look out for him and he'll do whatever he can to do the same for them. _________ has an interesting relationship with those in his "community". He provides them with protection from harassment and finds "conveniently" unlocked buildings when the weather is bad and "extra" resources when there is less than enough to get by. In return the humans and other mutants share what they have with him in genuine appreciation. This isn't a protection racket or anything of the sort. Everyone helps out in whatever way they can, so that everyone has enough to make it a little bit longer.
Real Name: unknown
Aliases: (no idea yet)
Experience Level: 1
Power Category: Mutant Animal
Alignment: Undecided as of yet. May be Anarchist or Miscreant (Sometimes you've got to do bad things just to stay warm and fed.)
Attributes: IQ. 12 ME. 21 MA. 14 PS. 20 PP. 21 PE. 16 PB. 10 Spd. 27
Hit Points: 21, S.D.C.: 48
Age: ?? , Sex: Male, Height: 5'6", Weight: 100lbs
Appearance: large, wide head with massive jaws, broad nose, wide set eyes and ears on top, thick slate grey fur with dark grey/black stripes, long, lean body, long furred tail, powerful arms and legs.
Animal Type: Maltese Tiger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_tiger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maltese_Tiger.jpg
Total Bio-E: 5
Hands: Full
Speech: Partial (If you can imagine if someone trying to talk and snore at the same time Google tiger sounds, they make a snorey/growling sound).
Bipedal: Full
Looks: None
Animal Powers: 2D6 Retractable Claws
Education Level: Self taught
Skill Programs: N/A
Skills: Athletics, Body Building, Climbing, Prowl, Running, Swimming, Land Navigation, Pick locks, Pick pockets, First aid, Fishing, Sewing.
W.P. Skills: Blunt, Chain
Combat Style: Hand to Hand Basic
Combat Abilities: 2 APM, +3 Roll with Punch/Fall, +1 Strike with body block/tackle 1D4 damage
Combat Bonuses: +3 Strike, +4 Parry, +8 Dodge
Other Bonuses: +5% Save vs Coma/Death. +1 Save vs poison/toxins
Money: $2,400
Weapons: none yet
Items: none yet
Equipment: none yet
I appreciate and look forward to your thoughts/feedback.
On a side note. Does anyone else think the TMNT tiger gets robbed? 15 bio-e for 2D6 claws when a house cat spends 10 bio-e for 2D6 climbing claws! Sorry, but tiger claws completely own ***** cat claws. Also, if I have to pay extra for them I should get an extra D6 of damage out of it. Also, to avoid being a super midget, you've either got to give up human features or animal powers. Otherwise you can buy your full hands/biped/speech/claws/teeth but you wind up like size level 5. No one is going to be threatened by a 3ft tiger. Even at 5'6" I think he's kind of shrimpy as far as my conception of a mutant tiger goes.
Feel free to add your thoughts about that as well.
Antonio Bengali, but his friends call him Tony the Tiger. 
You're better than that lol.
