Icosahedron Adventures: The Out-of-Towners I: Angel's Harbor
Ally NPC Seeds for Modern Games
by Owen K.C. Stephens
As a companion piece to "Rogues Gallery I: Angel's Harbor," this article presents a number of allies for use in modern or near modern pulp/street hero genre d20 System games. Like the rogue's gallery article, these are not fully written NPCs, but rather descriptions followed by a few rule mechanics to give them a unique flavor. Rather than have the rules mechanics be random exceptions to the normal rules (as was done in last month's article), these NPCs are presented as having one or more edges.
Edges are feats that are somewhat more powerful than the standard, but not so off scale as to ruin a campaign. Most games with edges limit characters to a set number. This may be no more than one edge per character, or not more than one edge per five character levels. A GM can use edges to build pulp/superhero-appropriate prestige classes, or simply have a Pulp Hero core class that grants a bonus feat or edge every three levels. Different methods are best for different campaigns, and most GMs can tell at a glance if they wish to allow edges, and if so how common they wish them to be.
El Grande
El Grande is a Mexican masked wrestler and hero. For more than 20 years, he has been both a defender of the common man and an iconic hero found in movies, comics and stage shows throughout Mexico and Central America. Dressed in his full face . . .
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Article publication date: January 28, 2005
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