Post by order99 on Mar 1, 2021 9:56:56 GMT
I just noticed this:
Spook Bad Guys: A weaker version of Raise Car,
but requiring no material components. With a
frightening gesture, or shouting something like “boo!”
at them, the Hero can cause from 1-6 1st (up to 1+1)
and 2nd level types (up to 2+1), or 1 3rd level type
within range to have to make morale saves at a -2
penalty for the duration, with a 2 in 6 chance per turn
of making them drop anything they are holding,
including weapons. Duration: 1-4 turns.
but requiring no material components. With a
frightening gesture, or shouting something like “boo!”
at them, the Hero can cause from 1-6 1st (up to 1+1)
and 2nd level types (up to 2+1), or 1 3rd level type
within range to have to make morale saves at a -2
penalty for the duration, with a 2 in 6 chance per turn
of making them drop anything they are holding,
including weapons. Duration: 1-4 turns.
FAKE UNDEAD
Not every encounter that seems to be with the
supernatural really is -- sometimes a ghost is just a
man under a sheet, a zombie is a man in a rubber
mask, a skeleton could be a man dressed in black
with bones painted over it in luminescent paint.
Stats for fake undead are always half of what they are
for the real version (rounding up), but without any of
the special abilities. They can Spook Good Guys (as
per the power Spook Bad Guys) once per exploration
turn until they are exposed as fakes..
Not every encounter that seems to be with the
supernatural really is -- sometimes a ghost is just a
man under a sheet, a zombie is a man in a rubber
mask, a skeleton could be a man dressed in black
with bones painted over it in luminescent paint.
Stats for fake undead are always half of what they are
for the real version (rounding up), but without any of
the special abilities. They can Spook Good Guys (as
per the power Spook Bad Guys) once per exploration
turn until they are exposed as fakes..
PCs...don't make Morale checks as far as I can determine. I can't believe I didn't notice this before. 
So Scott-how did you handle it in your DC campaign? Did you just treat it as a D&D Fear spell instead, with a Save vs Magic? A Save vs Plot (WIS modifier) because it's "part of the Genre" so sometimes Hawkman will actually run away from bandits in a sheet? A reaction Check applied to the PCs for a change? Actually assign Morale scores to the PCs?
Also, have any other Forumites used Mobsters with Spook Good Guy, and if so how did you handle it?
). The legendary Captain Clegg (and his Disney counterpart The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh) wore horrific disguises to terrify the enemy. Also, half of the mystery films of the 1930's involved some attempt at supernatural fakery, as did the antagonist of the Doyle classic The Hound of the Baskervilles... and don't forget that your own recent campaign had actual Mad Science werewolves-who's to say that the 'ghosts' ability to terrify the Heroes wasn't some Terror Toxin emanating from the sheets they wore, or Infra-sound being piped into the room?