Re: What if...? Brainstorming ideas
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 8:55 am
They essentially are canines, no??? Even for canines, they're not that smart of an animal. Trying to kill off other Hound Packs' Leaders sounds a bit too close to a Power Grab, or just plain Greed. And in our real world, only humans (read: sentient beings with the capacity to knowingly do good or evil) really do that . Animals, for the most part, are living, preprogrammed organisms that don't deviate from their instincts. In the case of these Canine/Alien hybrids, they would act like any other Pack if left to themselves: establish an area, hunt prey within it, and keep out other packs, not 'absorb' them into itself in a bid for domination. In our real world, canines instinctively 'know' that while a larger Pack has better opportunity to bring down more prey, it is also in more danger of starvation; that's why there isn't one huge 'superpack' of Wolves, Hyenas, etc., in our real world. And very few species will take in 'outsiders' under normal circumstances.....thagema wrote:Sometimes we all run dry on ideas. We hit that character creation roadblock where nothing comes to us or, as a GM, our idea tank is empty and needs refilling.
So, let's help each other out and drop some little brainstorming ideas here. Characters, adventures or whatever.
I'll start:
What would happen if an aggressive gore hound, the alpha animal, were to gain control of the pack after a packmaster's demise? And what if this gore hound started killing off other packmasters and taking control of those packs as well? Could lead to some interesting encounters...