Re: [DL] How's the weather down there?

["Matt Maybray" <reginald_q_bumbershoot@hotmail.com>]

The best way would be to check out a copy of Rascals, Varmints, & Critters 
II. They have rules for critters that swarm. However, it'll be up to you to 
decide how much damage per critters get done.

>From: "Daphne Brunelle" <dbrune4@po-box.mcgill.ca>
>Reply-To: deadlands@gamerz.net
>To: deadlands@gamerz.net
>Subject: [DL] How's the weather down there?
>Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 21:37:45 -0400
>
>Spoilers for any and all members of my posse who lurk on this here list.
>
>Git!
>
>S
>P
>O
>I
>L
>E
>R
>
>All righty. This is a bug­related question. I'm keeping my posse in Kansas 
>for
>the moment, and in a moment of inspiration remembered that in the late 
>1860s or
>so Kansas suffered from a terrible infestation of grasshoppers.
>
>Now, I thought to myself, what better way to creep out the posse without 
>its
>being something *actually* supernatural? So I arbitrarily decided to move 
>the
>infestation up a few years and inflict it on my unsuspecting posse.
>
>So naturally I go looking through the main rulebook for rules for a swarm 
>of
>bugs of some kind, and the only thing I've been able to find so far is the
>Harrowed power Infest. While it's certainly interesting, it's not quite 
>what I'm
>looking for. From descriptions I've read, these were huge clouds of 
>grasshoppers
>which stretched for miles and devoured every bit of greenery in their path,
>without really harming humans all that much.
>
>I'm not looking to actually harm the posse so much as just wind them, slow 
>them
>down, and give them a really huge obstacle to overcome before they get to 
>where
>they're really supposed to be going.
>
>Does anyone have suggestions as to how I can design a cloud (or several) of
>grasshoppers? I was thinking treating it as a level 3 Infest, which might 
>work,
>but I'm open to better suggestions.
>
>Or is there a rule for swarms that I've missed somewhere?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Daphné
>--
>"It is an odd thing Mr Ireton; that every man who wages war believes God to 
>be
>on his side. I'll warrant God must often wonder who is on His."
>                               Oliver Cromwell: 1599-1658
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