Geek Victory!

[Wraithstrike]

Today was geekishly awesome.

First, I got two players for my tabletop left 4 dead campaign. I wound up with Ashley J Williams as a Winnie the Pooh mascot, and a princess with hyper-powered sight, smell and hearing.

That's not the coolest part.

As these two players statted out the weirdest L4D survivors since Ellis and Keith, two other students came up.
"We've got these ideas for Naruto characters. Can this Wild Talents system make them work?"

So I guided them through the process of creating characters. I had a discussion with the girl who making a Naruto character in the system about various animes, and that led into discussion Shinkenger. I gave her a link to TVN, and she promised that she'd check out the greatness of toku.

In short: Got two awesome players for my zombie campaign, got two non-gamers interested in an easy RPG system, and added my eleventh convert to the church of toku.

I stand victorious!

 

[jwk94]

Hmm, I have a friend (girl) who likes Japan, but im not sure how much, and i want to see if she would like Toku, but i dont want to seem like some geek, how do i do this?

 

[Tom Constantine]

I have no idea what this thread is about.

 

[Wraithstrike]

This thread is me, crowing about doing geeky things, and getting other people interested in them.

 

[VengeanceGOD]

What's Wild Talents? It sounds awesome.

 

[Wraithstrike]

it's a superhero system where you buy 10-sided dice to roll for stats, skills and superpowered miracles. It can handle anything from Captain America up to the Silver Surfer(Seriously, for 21 points per die, you can buy "Cosmic Power.") You can also buy Hard Dice, which always roll the maximum number and Wiggle Dice, which let you set the number to whatever you want after you roll the others.

For the zombie campaign, i gave them basic powers like immunity to the plague and for the pooh bear mascot, a terror effect that works on common infected and set them up with 250 points to spend on stats and skills.

For the Naruto players, they each had 500 points to build their clan members.

When you roll the dice, you take up as many dice as you have in the stat and skill and roll them looking for matching numbers. Pooh Bear, for instance, has 2 dice in Body, but 4 in Melee Weapon Chainsaw, so she'd roll six dice.

If in that roll, she rolls 3 5's, it would be a torso shot for three points of damage, if the other guy doesn't roll higher. The more you have of a certain number, the faster the action is. The higher that number is, the more effective the action becomes. rolling a 10 would be a head shot in an attack, and 2 10's is a guaranteed success on almost anything.

check out arcdream.com to learn more about it.

 

[Wraithstrike]

Victory mark 2:

One of the students who was doing the naruto thing came to me to set up his character's powers. with 168 points left to spend, the first thing he told me upon looking through the book was "I don't want to cheese this. I just want to make him powerful enough to survive."

After we finished created his nin with control over air pressure, he found me in the computer lab as I was watching some KR Double. His response "Man, I gotta watch that."

 

[Kivat]

I..am so proud of you Magna. :buttrock::buttrock::buttrock:

 

[jwk94]

Wait, you watched KR at school?? And Kivat, ur avatar is making my head explode.

 

[Kivat]

Wait, you watched KR at school?? And Kivat, ur avatar is making my head explode.

lol Your not the first to tell me that. I have a headache right now also, so it wouldn't be wise of me to look at it.