[DL] Re: deadlands-digest.20020421

["Dom Gallegos" <stylenz@hotmail.com>]

>Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 21:56:09 -0400
>From: shoffner@usit.net
>Subject: [DL] The Guru of EVIL
>
>Hmmm..... Clint Black is the true guru of EVIL.  And all this time, I
>thought he just sung country songs to pass the time. :)
>
>Well, Mr.. EVIL, perhaps you can help me like you helped the guy with
>superhero Blessed.
>
>I have Mao the Human Cuisinart, an enlightened martial artist that has to 
>be
>seen to be believed.  Once,  our marshal through out a Japanese Ronin at
>him, just to play with him a little.  Mao decides to have fun with the guy 
>&
>enters combat with a pair of chopsticks (Enlightened Gimick Weapon).  They
>charge into melee combat, Mao gets to go first, hits the guy in the eyes
>with an aimed shot, rolls a god-awful roll (somewhere in the 50s), rolls 
>for
>damage & manages to come up with a total of 72 or some such.  Marshal just
>throws up his hands & lets the ronin die.
>
>Mao is just a killing machine; has no remorse for other folks (heck, we've
>even had some trouble with other posse members), but he doesn't really DO
>anything to really tick off any players or NPCs
>
>I ran him through the Devil's Tower trilogy; first act, I beefed up the 
>gang
>involved, & he almost single-handedly kills them all even though I played
>them as a team.  (Oh man, in one scene he encounters [blank] when another
>sneaks up behinds him to shoot him in the back. Mao makes his cognition,
>catches the two bullets fired at him, throws them at the first person, I
>surprise him by having first person CATCH them & THROW them back as well, 
>he
>catches them AGAIN to throw them at the person who shot him.  This takes 
>out
>gunbunny, plus he has one Action left to take out his original foe.
>AAARRRGGGHH!!!!)
>
>So, any thoughts?
>
>Oh, another time, went up against the big "bad" guy in Ghost Busters.
>Heh-heh.  FINALLY fails that damn "spider sense" thing he's got going for
>him & gets it good in the back. He reacts next action to tag the guy with
>his sword, I cheat & have the guy ghost out of the way. I do the drill of
>losing him in the steam & whatnot, he notices another attack that is coming
>in, easily dodges it, does "Smoke Parts For Iron" nails the bad guy with
>such a phenomenal hit that vamoosing ain't going to help, & rips the guy's
>leg off.
>
>I'm seriously thinking of sending him to HoE.  I think he'd do well
>there.....
>
>Jeff S
>
I have two enlightened in my posse. They favorite trick it to sweep the bad 
guy then the other takes him out. Luckily one of them is a good player and 
stays in character. The other kinda sits there till combat starts. I've had 
good luck with sending things that can only be hurt by specific items. 
However, when it comes to mundane things I know nothing is going to stand up 
to them. Another thing, if you can have enough guys survive hold your 
actions. Most powers require a card to activate. I've seriously put the hurt 
on my MA's by hitting them when they are out of actions. No cards, no 
bullets to catch or devastating ape strike.

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