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

[Cedric Chausson]

Nice analogy!

2008/11/12 James Knevitt <jknevitt at gmail.com>

> 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.
>>>
>>>
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