All animal party

On Sep 8, 3:18 pm, Tetsubo <tets....RemoveThis@comcast.net> wrote:
>         Has anyone ever run an all Awakened animal party before? I don't think
> it would make a good long term campaign but short term or even a con
> game would be interesting.

Did you just watch "Kung-Fu Panda" again?

On Sep 8, 1:18 pm, Tetsubo <tets....DeleteThis@comcast.net> wrote:
>         Has anyone ever run an all Awakened animal party before? I don't think
> it would make a good long term campaign but short term or even a con
> game would be interesting.

I got to play an Awakened Bear Cub. We all started as Wizards
familiars, and our Wizards had gone missing (mysteriously, of course).

We used the advancement rules out of Savage Species for the higher-end
animals like the bear.

"Tetsubo" <tetsubo.DeleteThis@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Has anyone ever run an all Awakened animal party before? I don't think it
> would make a good long term campaign but short term or even a con game
> would be interesting.
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Yes, they all lived in a single abode, called Animal House. It was shaped
like an inverted 'V' so it was also sometimes called Delta House.

Let's see, we had the following animals:
Flounder, Stork, Otter, and Pinto.
Allied to unidentifiable animals Bluto and D-Day, they take on evil animals
like "Dean" Wormer. In the battle, they end up mistakenly killing a horse.

Great fun that.

decalod85 wrote:

> On Sep 8, 3:18 pm, Tetsubo <tets....DeleteThis@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone ever run an all Awakened animal party before? I don't think
>>it would make a good long term campaign but short term or even a con
>>game would be interesting.
>
>
> Did you just watch "Kung-Fu Panda" again?

I was actually listening to a Fear the Boot podcast. It was the topic
of the episode. I'm a big fan of anthro races but I've never used
straight out animals. Though I do own a copy of Kung-fu Panda.

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"Tetsubo" <tetsubo.RemoveThis@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Has anyone ever run an all Awakened animal party before? I don't think it
> would make a good long term campaign but short term or even a con game
> would be interesting.
>

Played a few 1st or 2nd ed Gamma World campaigns where all the players were
intelligent mutant animals.


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smithdoerr wrote:

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> "Tetsubo" <tetsubo DeleteThis @comcast.net> wrote in message
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>
>> Has anyone ever run an all Awakened animal party before? I don't think
>> it would make a good long term campaign but short term or even a con
>> game would be interesting.
>>
>
> Played a few 1st or 2nd ed Gamma World campaigns where all the players
> were intelligent mutant animals.
>
>

The 4th edition has some really nice mutant animals rules. And if you
take an animal without any human features, you get a bonus physical
mutation. I've run mutant apes before but that's cheating.

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Tetsubo wrote:
> Has anyone ever run an all Awakened animal party before? I don't
> think it would make a good long term campaign but short term or even a
> con game would be interesting.

We did this, but not for D&D. We used Ars Magica. We were the animals
of a wizard and our master had disappeared. It was a lot of work for
the GM because coming up with a quest that needed the "skills" of a
mouse, cat, owl, horse, and big dog (and, uhh, another one I forget) was
quite a challenge. It was a lot of fun.

Tetsubo wrote:
> Has anyone ever run an all Awakened animal party before? I don't
> think it would make a good long term campaign but short term or even a
> con game would be interesting.

Can D&D actually simulate that?

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"Tetsubo" <tetsubo.RemoveThis@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> smithdoerr wrote:
>
>>
>> "Tetsubo" <tetsubo.RemoveThis@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:h86e7c$35v$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>>
>>> Has anyone ever run an all Awakened animal party before? I don't think
>>> it would make a good long term campaign but short term or even a con
>>> game would be interesting.
>>>
>>
>> Played a few 1st or 2nd ed Gamma World campaigns where all the players
>> were intelligent mutant animals.
>>
>>
>
> The 4th edition has some really nice mutant animals rules. And if you take
> an animal without any human features, you get a bonus physical mutation.
> I've run mutant apes before but that's cheating.

As I recall, the GM was rather generous about letting us use equipment and
manipulate objects. There were also a couple players who had tentacles or
some other added apendage that I think the GM just let them pick as one of
thier mutations rather than roll for. So there would be a few animals who
could "dress" the other animals for them.


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Peter Knutsen wrote:

> Tetsubo wrote:
>
>> Has anyone ever run an all Awakened animal party before? I don't
>> think it would make a good long term campaign but short term or even a
>> con game would be interesting.
>
>
> Can D&D actually simulate that?
>

Well, Gamma World 4E certainly can and it's proto-3E D&D. So I don't
see why not.

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Tetsubo wrote:
> Peter Knutsen wrote:
>
>> Tetsubo wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone ever run an all Awakened animal party before? I don't
>>> think it would make a good long term campaign but short term or even
>>> a con game would be interesting.
>>
>>
>> Can D&D actually simulate that?
>>
>
> Well, Gamma World 4E certainly can and it's proto-3E D&D. So I don't
> see why not.

You could easily do this with D&D 3E as long as you did not run it as a
standard D&D adventure.

smithdoerr wrote:

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> "Tetsubo" <tetsubo DeleteThis @comcast.net> wrote in message
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>> smithdoerr wrote:
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>>>
>>> "Tetsubo" <tetsubo DeleteThis @comcast.net> wrote in message
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>>>
>>>> Has anyone ever run an all Awakened animal party before? I don't
>>>> think it would make a good long term campaign but short term or even
>>>> a con game would be interesting.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Played a few 1st or 2nd ed Gamma World campaigns where all the
>>> players were intelligent mutant animals.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The 4th edition has some really nice mutant animals rules. And if you
>> take an animal without any human features, you get a bonus physical
>> mutation. I've run mutant apes before but that's cheating.
>
>
> As I recall, the GM was rather generous about letting us use equipment
> and manipulate objects. There were also a couple players who had
> tentacles or some other added apendage that I think the GM just let them
> pick as one of thier mutations rather than roll for. So there would be
> a few animals who could "dress" the other animals for them.
>
>

Which is just one of the many, many reasons I love Gamma World. I
have a copy within arms reach.

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In article <h86e7c$35v$1@news.eternal-september.org>, tetsubo RemoveThis @comcast.net
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> Has anyone ever run an all Awakened animal party before?

No, but I ran a 2nd edition game from Dragon ("Monsterqueat"?) which
contained an Ogre named Bert, a Kobold, Halfling, Wererat, and Nixie the
Pixie.

As an added bonus, the girl playing Nixie was a local talk radio host and
used a wonderful cartoony voice.

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