How does the latest character you played attempt to deal with this guy, and what are his or her chances of success?
>>98143106I shoot him with my rifle set to full auto to maximize damage
>>98143106Fireball
The DNDs' Barbarian literally does RAGE and chops everyone in half with the Great Ax!
>>98143106>teleport the edgelord to Literally Nowhere™ before he even starts his villain monologue>catch the babies with telekinesisVery easily turns out.
>>98143106Blast him with a few Rays of Stupidity to kill him fast & easy, while a flying gaunlet grabs him by the head & grows super huge preventing his corpse from falling over. Then my small army of flying minions gently disconnect the babies & see to their safety & needs
He convinces the guy to surrender and not harm the babies.
>throw a javelin so hard that it pierces the guys skull and embeds itself into the wall behind him, keeping him standing even in deathI've got abilities that give me huge bonuses to my accuracy and damage along with rerolls at will, so that kind of stunt might drain some of my resources but it's entirely within the scope of my abilities to perform reliably.
>>98143106Hold Person while keeping our Barbarian from killing and eating all of them.
>>98143159Exalted or Scion?
>>98143106Probably just cries and has an existential crisis until his sire's cat convinces him he's gonna be okay.
>>98143106>roll to seduce
>>981433825.5e. Paladin of Conquest.A weird quirk of 5.5 is that the Paladin's Divine Smite spell has a trigger that says>Bonus Action, which you take immediately after hitting a target with a Melee weapon or an Unarmed StrikeThe important thing is that it says "hitting a target with a Melee weapon", not "Melee attack".A Javelin in 5.5 is classified as a Melee weapon, just one you can perform ranged attacks with, so it's possible to Divine Smite while throwing a Javelin. At low levels, this lets a Paladin throw javelins that deal probably more damage than a ranged attack should deal, albeit only for a few attacks a day. Even without further damage bonuses from spells like Divine Favor, a Divine Smite takes what could already be a lethal Javelin throw and turns it into a guaranteed kill on a street level punk. And, the Paladin of Conquest gets an ability called Guided Strike that lets them add +10 to one attack, which is a fairly rare ability and basically guarantees a hit on most enemies on a roll of anything other than a natural 1. Throw in the Lucky Feat for a reroll along with the Human Heroic Inspiration reroll as a backup for that backup, and it's near impossible to miss, especially on some unarmored guy who also happens to be laden down with about 100lbs of babies.If an attack needs to get through, if an enemy needs to die, I can ensure that happens, even against what should be impossible odds, because Disadvantages don't stack and the Lucky/HI rerolls make the already unlikely nat 1 considerably more unlikely. Even throwing the javelin at its maximum range, while blind-folded, poisoned and frightened and with 3 levels of exhaustion, it's still going to hit (and likely kill whatever it's hitting).That kind of precision and damage born from divine power on top of supernatural luck combined with the ordinary skill/strength/talent of a trained adventure should make that kind of throw essentially guaranteed to succeed.
>>98143687Ladies and gentlemen, give a round of applause to the unmatched, indisputable winner of this thread so far.
>>98143106>How does the latest character you played attempt to deal with this guycasting this>and what are his or her chances of success?pretty good
>>98143106My current character is basically the predator in terms of stealth, so he'd just go invisible and slash his throat.
>>98143106Stab him>b-but babiesThat gipsy whore can just make 30 more
>>98143106 doing all of my currently active charactersDunmer Mage:>Explosive fireball, idgaf about nemer infants.Cyber-samurai:>Cut off gun arm with one hand, grapple his face with the other to hold him up. Guy has a kerenz2 and corvette cyberlegs so he's fast enough to pull this off.Space Mercenary turned station security>Rush him wearing riot gear, grapple gun arm, then hold him up by the head while other officers remove the children.
>>98143951>Dunmer MageColour me intrigued, what system and how's the campaign going Anon?
>>98143954Being run in gurps, as are the other two chars. Campaign is going fine, its typical dungeon crawling stuff. Party and I are digging through a tomb in Elswyr. Had a session a few hours ago as of posting this, our Orc got hacked to bits by skeletons and now we have to figure out whether we want to ship him back to the nearest city or just leave him crippled while we finish digging through the tomb.
>>98143957For context, his neck got cut with a greatsword (would have killed a smaller man), and a halberd cut his arm ligaments, separated his leg at the kneecap, and cleaved one of his feet in half. Nobody in the party knows the spells required to unfuck that so he's stuck that way until we pay somebody else to fix it.
>Street Sam that had a grapple gun that he used at every opportunitySame way Moon Knight gets him in the comic.
>Pretend to negotiate>In the meantime my flying robot sword with a stealth generator built into it flanks around him>Say something to piss him off so he points at me>Plunges itself through one side of his neck and out the other>Holds him upright in a standing position while I remove the babies>If anyone asks what happened, smirk and say some bullshit about The Force leaving the team Jedi with a chapped ass about how that isn't how it worksGod I love having that sword, you ever invest in a piece of gear that on the surface feels like a gimmick only for it to be the most useful thing ever?Need a scout? Invisible floating sword robot.Need someone to listen in on a conversation? Invisible floating sword robot.Need a place to store hidden information without anyone thinking to check if it's even a robot? Invisible floating sword robot.Need an assassin? Bet your ass Invisible floating sword robot.
>>98143957>>98143962Sounds like a hoot. I wish my table's GURPS guy didn't die, I don't have anyone else willing to bite the bullet on giving the system a go and I keep myself too busy most of the time to worldbuild or set a GURPS game up. TES game would be sick... think only one other player in the broader group gives a shit about TES, though. I weep
>>98143159There's babies on his back as well.
Possessing him them putting the babies down carefully. Whats his Will save? Can't be much, right?
>>98143106If my psyker is explicitly told by the other party members to save the babies:>Spam fettered Déjà Vu minor power to make the villain keep monologuing while he removes babies one by one cutting the tape.Otherwise:>Unfettered Bio-Lightning with Lucky for rerolling low damage dice.My mecha pilot tries to negotiate, if we assume it's Very Hard difficulty, then with LUCK dump, he's got ~30% chance. I should have put more points in COOL.BUT if he demands the villain to stand down while my pilot is in his mech, the bonus for piloting a death machine increases the chances to 60%, that's something.
>>98143106Stall until the babies start shitting and screaming. Fatigue will force him to either remove or kill the babies. If he kills them, all bets are off and i can attack however i like. If he removes them, all bets are off and i can attack however i like
>>98143106Go along with his demands if necessary so he moves to a location with a high ceiling. Then rope dart through the top of the skull. He'll die and then just sort of dangle on his feet like a marionette.
>>98143106My wizard casts sleep and wins.
My witch would send her cat to cast the "you really want to pet this cat" spell, leaving him distracted enough for a counter attack.Alternatively, charm him to gain his trust and talk him out of it.Alternatively alternatively, get the ol' tits out.
>>98143106Mind control him to stand there passively while the party rescues the babies. Burn a better tier of mind control to make him place the gun against his penis and pull the trigger .
>>98143106My last character is ambidextrous, has superstrength, all the grappling advantages and eight arms that can move through hyperspace to bypass obstacles. I grab him.
>>98143106Sneak attack mate.I was playing an assassin rogue last.
>>98144119TES has a conversion built into GCS now, its pretty cool.
>>98143106>Channel negative energy >Animate dead This will sort itself out.
>>98143106Shoot him in the head. We don't negotiate with terrorists.
>>98146001But what if there aren't any corpses nearby?
>>98148491>channeling negative energy directly into a dozen infantsThere most certainly soon will be.
>>98143106Actually, my character is perfectly suited for this. Become invisible and intangible, sneak behind him, stab him in the neck, hold him up so that he doesn't fall on the ground.
>>98143106>How does the latest character you played attempt to deal with this guyFirst attempt to talk him down through a combination of philosophical musings and Dunsanian jargon about greater spiritual purpose and warnings about how the Earthly balance would first lament and then strike out in anger at the loss of such unfulfilled potential from those whose souls are cognisant of injustice beyond the comprehension of their infant corporeal minds.When that inevitable fails: rationalise that the greater hand of destiny chose this fate for the babies for reasons unknowable to mortal men (or reptiles in this case), run in and bite the guy.>what are his or her chances of success?Very high likelihood of baby casualties.
>>98143106>dominate-focused Ventruejust tell him to stand still, like what's the problem?
>>98149628Ventruechads can't stop winning.
>>98143106You can't stay awake and upright forever. You have to take a shit or go to sleep sometime, pencildick. And once you do, I'm cutting your fucking head off.
