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

[Benjamin Grant]

To me, DDs and Eternity Shards are part of cosms - as long as you have a
cosm, there will be an associated DD and ES.  If one were to be destroyed, I
don't know what would happen - either a new DD or ES being born, or
something else completely cosmic.

 

-Benn Grant

eFix Computer Consulting

benn at 4eFix.com

603.283.6601

 

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[mailto:torg-bounces at justintimeadventures.com] On Behalf Of Cedric Chausson
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 5:47 PM
To: torg at justintimeadventures.com
Subject: Re: [Torg] What would you do as a GM if the player did this?

 

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.



--
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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