[Torg] What would you do as a GM if the player did this?

[James Knevitt]

for me it's that DDs are on a level so far above really anybody else that
they SEEM indestructible to 'regular' people. Compare, say, ants and
elephants. Ants can fight and hurt and kill other ants, and elephants can
fight and kill other elephants. However, if that ant bites the elephant, the
elephant won't even feel it. and in the event that the elephant wants to
squash a whole bunch of ants, well, it can because it knows it can't be hurt
by them.
In this regard, the High Lords, even those as powerful as the Gaunt Man, are
just ants on the backs of elephants.

2008/11/12 Cedric Chausson <deathwindfr at gmail.com>

> Actually that's one of the nagging questions that I always had. Is there
> any possible way you can get rid of a DD? I don't remember anything
> mentionned but I may be wrong (in fact I am often wrong).
> It nagged me because it feels like DDs are sort of deus ex machina. It
> feels like WEG wanted them indestructible because it would have upset the
> whole Torg thing if they could be destroyed.
>
> It feels also contradictory because the stories show that DDs can be hurt,
> even if only by other DDs but then even for other DDs it seems beyond their
> own already big powers to summon the destructive energy to harm even one of
> their own.
>
> Of course, getting rid of a DD is something that should not be easy in any
> case. But why bother with giving stats for them if there is not a possible
> way to get rid of them? For example, WEG gave stats for the Death Star in
> Star Wars but there was a possible way to blow up the Death Star.
>
> In the end, this is a minor issue and it has never bothered me really to
> play the game. But I just like to nitpick :-)
>
> Cedric the Heretic
>
> 2008/11/12 Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>
>
> 2008/11/12 Cedric Chausson <deathwindfr at gmail.com>:
>> > Unless my memory is wrong, they are indestructible unless you happen to
>> have
>> > a nuclear bomb handy and I am not even sure that would suffice.
>> >
>>
>> Actually it would take them to be at the core a supernova to feel it.
>> Or approximately the tidal forces of a small black hole event horizon.
>> Anything less is pretty much a pbbbbttt.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux
>> How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
>> in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"
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