ROAD HOGS
Skaffen I won an ebay auction for a book I needed (a secret weapon book I've stashed to use later) and it came with Road Hogs, so I have a spare copy I will mail to you when I get a care package of comics and music etc prepared for you.
Avalon is still happening, but we started a game with just the 11 year old, in Road Hogs - using After the Bomb, which is the 2nd edition of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles RPG, with the road hogs supplement which is mad max with anthropomorphic rabbits and shit.
When we were camping on the school holidays it rained a bit one day and we started rolling up Avalon characters. I'd brought the Road Hogs supplement also, and we started chatting about that setting - next thing you know, the 11 year old had just about completely made up his character, bar actually rolling anything up and writing anything down. Anyway he's a Tasmanian Devil, and in the Road Hogs book the Tassie Devil is like Taz the cartoon (yanks wrote the game.) He has to eat protein 4 times his body weight daily, sleeps a lot after eating, and has heaps of attacks and is strong as fuck. Anyway he's a bounty hunter in an armoured 4wd he put together during his truckie/auto mechanic apprenticeship, and has on a high interest loan a GUNNY robot who can slot into the armoured turret on the roof, which currently sports a light machine gun. The robot (I made up) looks like the magic pudding, it's a large pot with little arms in front which can drive, and big spider legs out the back. I have to do some home brew robot rules. For now it can drive cars and fire artillery only, but for $ could be programmed to use pistols and do other stuff.
So we finished the character after 30 minutes here and there over the last few weeks, and had our first mini-session today, as we both need to get the hang of the system. I had him driving down a highway and I just took the encounter straight from the vehicle combat example in Road Hogs. The funny thing is he got around the truck which was backing out trying to cut him off, but then failed his control roll and spun the 4wd out onto the dirt and ended up in a ditch (for 10 melees) just as the 5 bikes, stationwagon and sports car pull out onto the road ahead. And then we had to stop.
So the road hogs (evil bikies) on bikes will dismount and fire from cover behind the armoured station wagon, while the sports car will wait behind the station wagon in case the Tassie Devil gets the 4wd running again. He'll have to choose what to do - he can have Gunny fire on the road hogs while he works on getting the 4wd going, and good drive/mechanic rolls might lower the time from 10 rounds (by a few, if he makes good rolls), but unless Gunny's machinegun fire from the roof turret blows up the station wagon and maybe some bikes, the Tasmanian Devil is going to be under a LOT of fire, and he might start picking targets off with aimed shots with an assault rifle through the gun slits in the windows - but this means the 4wd is well and truly stuck until the end of the firefight. And all that's not taking into account the truck. I think at some stage he should notice someone on the roof of the truck lining him up with a rocket launcher on their shoulder.
It's pretty cute watching him play - he's so new to all this and has no idea what to do, so I lead him a little but mostly give him options. He's finding it very exciting and we are both having a wow of a time.
We talked a bit about (assuming he survives) what would happen after he prevails. I suggested throw road hog bodies and bikes into the back of the road hogs truck and drive the lot to the nearest town, with Gunny driving the 4wd. The sports car will be worth some $ if intact. But I am hoping for at least one road hogs vehicle to go up in a ball of fire, preferably starting a chain reaction. We'll see how it pans out.
Fire! Fire!
Avalon is still happening, but we started a game with just the 11 year old, in Road Hogs - using After the Bomb, which is the 2nd edition of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles RPG, with the road hogs supplement which is mad max with anthropomorphic rabbits and shit.
When we were camping on the school holidays it rained a bit one day and we started rolling up Avalon characters. I'd brought the Road Hogs supplement also, and we started chatting about that setting - next thing you know, the 11 year old had just about completely made up his character, bar actually rolling anything up and writing anything down. Anyway he's a Tasmanian Devil, and in the Road Hogs book the Tassie Devil is like Taz the cartoon (yanks wrote the game.) He has to eat protein 4 times his body weight daily, sleeps a lot after eating, and has heaps of attacks and is strong as fuck. Anyway he's a bounty hunter in an armoured 4wd he put together during his truckie/auto mechanic apprenticeship, and has on a high interest loan a GUNNY robot who can slot into the armoured turret on the roof, which currently sports a light machine gun. The robot (I made up) looks like the magic pudding, it's a large pot with little arms in front which can drive, and big spider legs out the back. I have to do some home brew robot rules. For now it can drive cars and fire artillery only, but for $ could be programmed to use pistols and do other stuff.
So we finished the character after 30 minutes here and there over the last few weeks, and had our first mini-session today, as we both need to get the hang of the system. I had him driving down a highway and I just took the encounter straight from the vehicle combat example in Road Hogs. The funny thing is he got around the truck which was backing out trying to cut him off, but then failed his control roll and spun the 4wd out onto the dirt and ended up in a ditch (for 10 melees) just as the 5 bikes, stationwagon and sports car pull out onto the road ahead. And then we had to stop.
So the road hogs (evil bikies) on bikes will dismount and fire from cover behind the armoured station wagon, while the sports car will wait behind the station wagon in case the Tassie Devil gets the 4wd running again. He'll have to choose what to do - he can have Gunny fire on the road hogs while he works on getting the 4wd going, and good drive/mechanic rolls might lower the time from 10 rounds (by a few, if he makes good rolls), but unless Gunny's machinegun fire from the roof turret blows up the station wagon and maybe some bikes, the Tasmanian Devil is going to be under a LOT of fire, and he might start picking targets off with aimed shots with an assault rifle through the gun slits in the windows - but this means the 4wd is well and truly stuck until the end of the firefight. And all that's not taking into account the truck. I think at some stage he should notice someone on the roof of the truck lining him up with a rocket launcher on their shoulder.
It's pretty cute watching him play - he's so new to all this and has no idea what to do, so I lead him a little but mostly give him options. He's finding it very exciting and we are both having a wow of a time.
We talked a bit about (assuming he survives) what would happen after he prevails. I suggested throw road hog bodies and bikes into the back of the road hogs truck and drive the lot to the nearest town, with Gunny driving the 4wd. The sports car will be worth some $ if intact. But I am hoping for at least one road hogs vehicle to go up in a ball of fire, preferably starting a chain reaction. We'll see how it pans out.
Fire! Fire!
posted by stompbox at 10/30/2005 05:33:00 pm
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