Re: [HOE] (HOE) MARSHALS ONLY!! New Evil Idea (MWAH!)

[Nicholas Bouquet <nbouqu1@prodigy.net>]

Shawn Willett wrote:

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>     Okay, so I was at work and I had an evil idea concerning 5 Grit. I 
> know it's been brought up before but I think Hell on Earth needs its 
> own special version of the Los Diablos. Cause let's face it, gang, 
> most PCs can take an AV 2 Size 10 armored bull without breaking a 
> sweat, especially if they are an Arcane Background. So, here's what 
> you do instead of the same old bull. By the time someone gets to 5 
> Grit they have become a pain in the Reckoner's collective butt, so the 
> Reckoners spend a little mojo on them. They whip up a doppleganger. 
> What this means is you snag their character sheet or you should have 
> it written up in your Marshal's Log. You photocopy it. You send them 
> after themselves. My rationale for this is PCs aren't gonna skimp on 
> themselves. Most players will min-max their character to hell and gone 
> and if they've lasted long enough to gain 5 grit, they should be 
> fairly badass. Make the Bad Ash to their Good Ash, for example. Oh and 
> just as an added bonus, the doppleganger has all of thier powers, 
> guns, cyborg devices, power armor, relic swords whatever. And only the 
> PC who has 5 Grit can affect the doppleganger. And the Fear check for 
> facing an Evil version of yourself should be about 11. Yeah, yeah, I 
> know you don't get the cumulative fear checks for the bull or the 
> ghostly herd, but who cares? The rest of the posse can be occupied 
> with spending chips to help out or wasting ammo/Strain/effort trying 
> to help kill the baddie. Another evil thought is you have the 
> doppleganger strike at night and then require cognition checks from 
> everyone to determine which one is the real PC. :) You get to use the 
> PC against his/herself and that should be worth it. I'm gonna try it 
> out on my new posse and see how it goes. Let me know how it goes cuz I 
> think it's a novel approach.
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never go for the kill when you can go for the pain

evil doppleganger for the PC to fight.... *yawn*

evil doppleganger ruining rep of PC, and turning the entire Wasted West 
against them..... slightly more interesting

Marshal Nick