Wednesday, May 15, 2013

The Triceratops Of London

Art by Mark Rehkopf

Wooo-hooo, FATE SF's all-time favorite dinosaur, the Triceratops, put in an appearance in my recent Kerberos Club scenario (excellent player reportage here) at Jon Con '13 last month in the Twin Cities, Minnesota!

The scenario used a FATE Accelerated Edition hack optimized for Kerberos Club (design outlines here).

Today, we're sharing our write-up for the Triceratops.

The one below made a mean mess of some of London's finest commercial streets, but eventually ended up in the London Zoo.

Get a Triceratops onto the streets of a game near you soon!


OGL MECHANICS

Triceratops
Everyone's Favorite Plant-Eater

ASPECTS:
  • High Concept: Tri-horned herbivore
  • Trouble: Ornery as hell
  • Aspect: Never met a human I didn't want to charge
  • Aspect: Armored on the front-end
  • Aspect: Meat steam-roller
APPROACHES
  • Careful: 0
  • Clever: 0
  • Flashy: 0
  • Forceful: +5
  • Quick: +3
  • Sneaky: 0
STUNTS:
  • Goes Down Slowly: Take two Severe Consequences (6 stress each) before being Taken Out.
  • Impaling Attack: When a Triceratops Succeeds with Style on an attack using the Forceful Approach, the person playing the Triceratops may declare it has impaled its target on the Triceratops' horns. An Overcome action will be required before the target can detach itself from the horns.
  • Stampede: Spend 1 FP to roll 2DF + 2D6 on any charging action using a Forceful Approach.
  • Armored Frill: Take +2 to Forcefully defend against attacks from the front. 
REFRESH: 2

9 comments:

  1. Triceratops is my favorite dinosaur, too. Small world.

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  2. Armor Plated is both overpowered, and doesn't really suit the Triceratops anyway. It implies that the trike is well armored all around, when it's only well-protected from the front. Let's try this instead:

    Armored Frill: +2 to Forcefully defend against physical attacks from the front.

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    1. Thanks for the feedback. I modified it a bit, differentiating between its staying power due to its size (the renamed first stunt) and the armored frill (the new fourth stunt).

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