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RPG - Oil beasts

Anonymous Thu 28 Apr 2011 21:33:00 No.14741833 View View Reply Original Report

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Hi everyone,

could use some advice and opinions regarding the game I’m running. System is irrelevant, it’s all just numbers anyway. Setting more or less traditional fantasy.

I’m planning a campaign set in the desert where, apart from other things, a quite big part of the action would be involving the expansion of a crude oil-like substance and the creatures spawning from it. The substance itself would be quite dangerous, with the fumes slightly poisonous, irritating to touch and of course flammable. But the main danger would be the creatures.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 28 Apr 2011 21:33:00 No.14741836 Report

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I was thinking of having two types of them: oil beasts spawned from oil pools and oil thralls from humanoids drowned in the pools. The beasts should be only slightly anthropomorphic, kind of like that muddy pokemon, and come in three sizes – normal human-sized, about ogre-size and then the big boss about 50 feet high. All of them would be a bit sluggish, though very tough and resistant.
The thralls would be more humanoid in features, sort of bodies heavily dipped in oil. They’d be more agile, maybe more intelligent and perhaps even retain some abilities they had in life. Obviously they’d be like undead, so I’m going to base them on undead.

What I want your opinions on are the weaknesses and immunities. Note that I don’t run all-hack’n’slash games, so it’s not like the party’s going to fight these in fifty battles. Maybe there won’t even be the need to do so, if they manage to avoid fighting.
The first type should be easy to outrun (though the big guy would have quite nice reach), and the thralls wouldn’t benefit from being all-oil, so less HP etc.
Setting the things on fire should help, as they would slowly burn away, but I don’t want to make them too vulnerable to fire. When set on fire, they’d eventually be killed if the fire’s not put out, bud will remain fighting. On top of that, the burning oil would produce thick (= bad visibility) poisonous smoke.

So, what would be effective on a creature made of crude oil? How about acids? Alcohol? Maybe some chemical like the thing used on spilled gas on the roads, that would neutralize them? Any thoughts?

Pic related, though it's a pathetic pokemon

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 28 Apr 2011 21:43:00 No.14741867 Report

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>>14741836
I would expect resistances to cold and electricity, since oils tend to have low melting points and be poor conductors. Acid in the proper chemical sense of the word shouldn't be particularly effective, but organic solvents like acetone or alcohol would serve a similar purpose. Soaps or detergents would also be a problem for a creature made entirely of oil. Of course, seeing as "acid" in fantasy settings is generally just "generic caustic liquid", you could have that be a weakness anyway.

Resistance to physical damage would also make sense for the full-oil monsters, since they don't have much in the way of solid anatomy to disrupt.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 28 Apr 2011 23:27:00 No.14742366 Report

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>>14741867
Good points on the cold and electricity.
So alcohol could work, what about acetic and formic acid? I'm asking because they would be easily obtainable in the world. Acetone probably wouldn't, as well as many other chemicals.

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