[BNW] The ripper some spoilers and some questions

[MadPr0phet@aol.com]

Well, I just finished running the first half of the ripper adventure for my 
group and it went farley well.  I will get in to that in a moment but first I 
have a few questions and comments for people.  

1. What would be the target number for a shrinking character to pull some 
ones pants down while shrunk?  I had him make a strength test against a 
target number of 5 and then made the test opposed against the guys belt.  
(str 2)

2.  My posse has a bad habit of rolling one for hit location.  So far they 
have broken two guys legs in as many sections.  Both times they have nearly 
amputated the leg they hit is so hard.  

3. What sort of damage do you folks think being tripped would do.  For the 
most part I have had the tripped villains make stun checks against a target 
number of ten but take no wounds.  If they are stunned they recover in one 
round.

below here their are spoilers









First a quick introduction to my team.  We have Jack Winter a blaster who 
works under the name of Vulcan.  Frank Collons a tough who is being hunted by 
delta prime.  Thomas Meageah the III a psychologist delta shrinker who goes 
by the handle mister miniature.  I spent the last to weeks getting the group 
together and figured I would run the ripper to give the group time to get to 
know each other.

My Team started things off by being rather paranoid about the meeting.  
Mister Miniature suggested that Vulcan watch the warehouse from the roof for 
the entire length of the meeting.  Meanwhile he had Frank dress in one of his 
lab coats and pretended to be a gadgatear, Mr. Miniature hid in the room in 
his shrunken state.  Soon to NPC heroes (the Shrike a flyer with a mean 
streak and shield maiden a defender with dreams of being an opera singer) 
joined the players and they started going over the data.

Half way through digging around the records my heroes come up with the plan 
to use the tough as bait.  The team however does not trust either of the NPC 
so they send them out to round up some blood angels for integration.  They 
began patrolling the neighborhood right away trying to attract the ripper.  
During their patrol they saw shrike and shield maiden go in to the Omega bar 
and the shrinker flowed them in.  The two of them made very little progress 
however and Mr. Miniature failed to learn any thing while in side.  As he was 
leaving he saw the gangers hassling Tauna.  This is were things started to 
get funny.

First he tried knocking people over to distract them from the girl but the 
first guy he went after wrought his staggering off to drunkenness.  Then on 
the second attempt to push someone over he botched and got stepped on.  He 
tried to lift the foot off and botched again breaking the radio he was 
wearing.  When radio contact was lost the other characters circled around to 
help out.  The tough started hassling one of the gamers and eventually 
started a fight with them.  In the first round of combat he did four wounds 
to one of the gangers legs breaking it. The ganger maid his stun check and 
punched him in the groin managing to do a wound. ( I gave him an extra die of 
damage for location.)  It went don hill from their the shrinker was able to 
pants one opponent and throw the one guy who say him.  When they guy got up 
and started going for his gun he grew in to a punch breaking the guys jaw 
with four wounds (the gangers had strength 3)  

So now the blaster who has a code of honor that kept him out of the fight is 
giving the reporter a ride home and she has no clue that he is working with 
the deltas in investigating the ripper.  The other two are continuing their 
patrol.

I will let you folks know how things turn out in the second half of the game.

The madprophet