Saturday, September 01, 2007

Proposal: The I-Spy Book of Giant Monsters

Self-killed.

Adminned at 03 Sep 2007 02:09:06 UTC

[ Adding a system for determining a monster’s attributes from its picture. This gives us a number-of-mutations total which might make a nicely two-edged “combat ability, but also perceived military threat level”, but I’ll leave it open for now. ]

If “Monster Attributes” passed, repeal the rule or section that it created.

Enact a new Rule, “Mutations”:-

Each Giant Monster may have one or more Mutations; these are determined from the image of the Monster, and are listed as text in the Monster Roster. Tokyo may, at any time, refer to the following list and assign Mutations to Monsters as appropriate. (Tokyo’s decision is final, in deciding whether or not a Monster possesses a particular Mutation.)

  • If the monster is emitting fire from its mouth, then it has the Fire-Breathing mutation.
  • If any part of the monster seems to be glowing, then it has the Radioactive mutation.
  • If the monster is standing on top of a building, or climbing one, it has the Agile mutation.
  • If the monster is entirely in the air, it has the Flying mutation.
  • If the monster is partly or wholly immersed in water, then it has the Aquatic mutation.
  • If the monster is taller than a building visible in the picture, it has the Gargantuan mutation.
  • If the monster’s body has some metal parts, it has the Robotic mutation.
  • If the monster has red eyes, it has the Evil mutation.

A Monster’s Threat Level is equal to the number of Mutations that it has.

Comments

Clucky: he/him

01-09-2007 18:21:37 UTC

against There needs to be some limit on Mutations to make prevent every monster being drawn with fire from its mouth, a glowing tail, atop a building that has a pool on top of it with a tiny building in the background, meta arms and red eyes.

aaronwinborn:

01-09-2007 19:05:34 UTC

against I think it also creates an artificial limit to the creativity of the otherwise presumably nearly omnipotent Kaiju Gods.

Darknight: he/him

01-09-2007 19:34:12 UTC

against Aaron hit it well. A list would really limit what kinds of monsters can be made.

snowballinhell7001:

01-09-2007 20:10:49 UTC

against Pretty much already covered by Clucky.

Amnistar: he/him

01-09-2007 23:01:33 UTC

against

Kevan: he/him

01-09-2007 23:16:32 UTC

Um, okay. Threat Level doesn’t do anything yet, but I did suggest that it had the potential to be two-edged - a drawback could be that the Tokyo military automatically took out the highest Threat Level monster at the start of each week, or something.

If people think “giant monster cliches” are too narrow a range of mutations, they can obviously propose additions or replacements to the list. I’m just suggesting a way that we can generate stats from an image, as it sounds like that could be a fun mechanic.

(Besides, some limits and restrictions are good for creativity, aren’t they? That’s why we have thematic Dynasties.)

Darknight: he/him

01-09-2007 23:21:57 UTC

Sounds like this can be adjusted and put to vote again kev.

Hix:

02-09-2007 22:55:24 UTC

against

Kevan: he/him

03-09-2007 09:08:18 UTC

Self-killing to free up the queue.

against  against  against