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Turning over the Highlander Conundrum
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Potential campaign blurb
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Mechanical notes
The immortality thing is actually a bonus for a campaign containing violence - damage slows an immortal down and massive damage renders them unconscious while they regenerate but it's written that you're never going to accidentally kill a PC.
The 'years of accumulated knowledge' is not a major issue in the above scenario because young immortals don't have centuries of experience, but is easily treated as a pool of plot-points which can be spent on
- 'Yeah, I know something about this / once beheaded someone who knew about this'
- or temporary bonuses to a skill/stat/roll.
These should recover in two ways
- slowly over time
- all at once and possibly increasing the pool during a Quickening
And the power level of the game can be set relatively easily by adjusting the cap and recharge rate.
There would have to be a duelling sub-system encouraging burning off points in anticipation of the Quickening or death, because it wouldn't be Highlander without an occasional epic sword fight with bad-guy immortals.
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Potential campaign blurb
In the end there could be only one, and that one was MacLeod. But part of the Prize was mortality, and nature abhors a vacumn. Now new immortals are rising and banding together for protection - in the modern world powerful organisations hunting for the secret of immortality are the greatest threat to your Quickening.
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Mechanical notes
The immortality thing is actually a bonus for a campaign containing violence - damage slows an immortal down and massive damage renders them unconscious while they regenerate but it's written that you're never going to accidentally kill a PC.
The 'years of accumulated knowledge' is not a major issue in the above scenario because young immortals don't have centuries of experience, but is easily treated as a pool of plot-points which can be spent on
- 'Yeah, I know something about this / once beheaded someone who knew about this'
- or temporary bonuses to a skill/stat/roll.
These should recover in two ways
- slowly over time
- all at once and possibly increasing the pool during a Quickening
And the power level of the game can be set relatively easily by adjusting the cap and recharge rate.
There would have to be a duelling sub-system encouraging burning off points in anticipation of the Quickening or death, because it wouldn't be Highlander without an occasional epic sword fight with bad-guy immortals.
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Date: 2009-10-16 11:35 pm (UTC)From:I should really get around to seeing all of highlander at some stage I have only seen the occasional episode.
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Date: 2009-10-17 06:12 am (UTC)From:You can't always rely on the rules to balance things and it becomes a matter of agreement between the players including the GM. Any supers-level game is like that - also any heavily narrative game which most of those trying to replicate TV/movies have to be. I just happen to like a few mechanics to go with my narrative ;)
The old WoD (haven't read the new) and Buffy tVS are both games that spring to mind at exactly the same power level as Highlander, and they use similar mechanics.