RE: [HOE] Re: 2002 Munchie Awards

[Patrick Gamblin <b7um@unb.ca>]

Best Actor: Hm, the most outright powerful character in my game is the massive 
doomsayer Cain, although the ex-Airborne Ranger (with a fear of heights now) 
can put the smackdown on things almost as well. For cheesy characters, the 
harrowed Junker with a desire to join the Templars is about it. He also has a 
desire to make a number of IGR reactors (small enough for battlesuits or 
hovertanks) and ship them to Denver for a bit of command-detonation fun.

Best Supporting Actor: Heh heh. Would have to be the Conqueror (the original 
4th horseman). I dropped Pestilence and had the Conqueror never actually 
leave. He set up the town of Hope, that the PCs live in and maintains a 
certain level of fear (though I decided he survives more on people following 
him than on pure fear). He isn't actually the mayor, but almost everyone in 
town knows that the mayor is a puppet. For anyone who saw the short-lived 
series American Gothic a few years back, he's a direct homage to/rip-off of 
Sherrif Lucas Buck. The PCs know he's scary, but not what he is. They have 
plans to move out and set up a place of their own and have a desire to maybe 
find out what's really going on sometime (their primary concern is finding 
ways to fight the Combine).

Best Special Effect: No massive explosions yet (Though there was almost one 
when a Trog nailed with a small boulder the trailor of 70 mm rockets the PCs 
had scavenged from Phoenix. Almost crapped themselves at that point.). The 
biggest explosion that's likely to happen is when the IGR reactor in the 
Junker's bus goes up (which it will eventually, I just know it). The biggest 
explosion in any game I've been in was a command-detonated 10-Mtonne nuke I 
set off in a Beyond the Supernatural game, but that isn't eligible here. : }

Marshal Paddy

"As I look back, I see that it had been a mistake to send the letter. If you look far enough back, you will find that everything starts at some minor point. Something small becomes something very big. Something simple becomes complex. A brief moment of time becomes the focus of a tragedy. The letter was the minor point - something of no consequence that became the start of something of... importance." - Paul Thorgrimson, 'River of Blood, Path to Ruin,' October 2001