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Message no. 1
From: Stuart Boston <omertron@*********.CO.UK>
Subject: Enter The Dragon
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 19:07:19 +0100
Hiya!

I'm designing a martial arts style NPC for my GM's next
adventure in our campaign. Basically it will be an Enter the
Dragon kind of encounter on an island and the whole 9 yards...

One of the NPC's I have in mind is similar to the bad guy from
Mortal Combat(tm) with the 4 arms (Gorka sp?). Anyways
aside from the implications of attaching two limbs onto a
skeletal structure that was not designed to take them, though
I plan to use titanium bone lacing to get round this, and also
having to learn how to control 4 arms, what advantages should
these extra limbs bestow?

I was thinking something like an extra armed/unarmed attack
per round, and he/she would definitely have to have the
ambidextrous edge...

Any ideas?

Thanks


Stuart
Message no. 2
From: David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG>
Subject: Re: Enter The Dragon
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:50:13 -0600
Stuart Boston wrote:
/
/ these extra limbs bestow?
/
/ I was thinking something like an extra armed/unarmed attack
/ per round, and he/she would definitely have to have the
/ ambidextrous edge...

I'd give the character a simple +1 Reach to reflect the additional
offensive and defensive ability granted by the extra arms.

-David
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Message no. 3
From: "Ubiratan P. Alberton" <ubiratan@**.HOMESHOPPING.COM.BR>
Subject: Re: Enter The Dragon
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 02:03:27 -0300
David Buehrer wrote:
>
> Stuart Boston wrote:
> /
> / these extra limbs bestow?
> /
> / I was thinking something like an extra armed/unarmed attack
> / per round, and he/she would definitely have to have the
> / ambidextrous edge...
>
> I'd give the character a simple +1 Reach to reflect the additional
> offensive and defensive ability granted by the extra arms.
>
> -David
>

Don't forget that someone with 4 arms can hold 4 guns, or 2 assault
cannons... And fire all of 'em at
the same time.

Ubiratan
Message no. 4
From: Alfredo B Alves <dghost@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Enter The Dragon
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 01:27:17 -0500
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998 02:03:27 -0300 "Ubiratan P. Alberton"
<ubiratan@**.HOMESHOPPING.COM.BR> writes:
>David Buehrer wrote:
>>
>> Stuart Boston wrote:
>> /
>> / these extra limbs bestow?
>> /
>> / I was thinking something like an extra armed/unarmed attack
>> / per round, and he/she would definitely have to have the
>> / ambidextrous edge...
>>
>> I'd give the character a simple +1 Reach to reflect the additional
>> offensive and defensive ability granted by the extra arms.
>>
>> -David
> Don't forget that someone with 4 arms can hold 4 guns, or 2 assault
>cannons... And fire all of 'em at
>the same time.
>
> Ubiratan
Eek! what kind of recoil is that gonna incur?
Also, firing two weapons at once incurs a +2 T# (can't recall source
OTTOMH... BBB or FoF?), what's firing 4 wepons gonna do?

How ever someone with 4 arms can grab ya, pin your arms with 2 of
his/hers and proceed to trash ya with the remaining two...
Nasty Thought: do this with a troll *shudder*
Also, give him/her mods to unarmed/armed combat as if he/she had +1/+2
reach (in addition to any other i.e. from being a troll <eg>) due the
fact that 4 arms are harder to block / dodge.
Also, ya might stick in a level one tact computer and say it takes care
of integrating the limbs, but I dunno about this ...
4 arms might change the action costs (i.e. eject a clip and insert new
one in as a simple action if 2 hands are free [one holding the gun, one
holding the clip] )

D. Ghost (AKA Pixel, AKA Tantrum)

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