Have a nosey at the Dragonmech setting for that campaign, might find some stuff that'll pique your interest. Not so much systemwise but there's decent ideas in there.
Dragonmech wasn't bad, but I found the Iron Kingdoms campaign to be better. I was going to use Pathfinder for it as there are "cleaner" rules for steampunk/ clockwork settings. In terms of the "zombies", Klaven from the Alien Codex could be tweaked for that.
Sounds sensible. I can't consider Dragonmech good for any sort of mechanics but it had some decent ideas in there for using a better setup to work with.
Some of the mechs were interesting You also have some rules on oil. I also like the city mechs. Great for a Mortal Engines campaign.
My greatmaul-wielding Barbarian (under the effects of Enlarge Person) rolled to knock over the pillar of stone holding up the ceiling of the first room in this huge cave system the party had just explored. We wanted to seal off the cave because there were still bad guys in the side caves that we hadn't cleared and we didn't want any of the locals wandering in and getting into trouble. Anyway, I actually passed that roll.
That's usually what happens with someone destroys a support. There's a cave in and someone get's left behind. Obviously the dice gods don't like such actions. It's like failing a perception based skill check to see what's in the dark. That's why I started to always have a daylight spell handy. "You enter a dark cavern" awesome, I cast daylight, what's in here? It's even better in a Mythic campaign where the Daylight spell is worse than looking directly into the sun for creatures who have light based weaknesses.
Pretty much. This was a very high-powered campaign so my character getting killed in stupid ways and then resurrected was a bit of a running gag.
>VTM game
Percentile rolls are hilarious.
I forget the exact set up, but our Tabaxi was going to give the Gnome a boost so he could escape a burning room through a window. The Tabaxi player rolled a nat 1 on a Dex check, so the DM sat back for a moment in thoughtful repose, then said, "Instead of gently lifting him up and placing him on the windowsill, you grab him and huck him at the closed window as though you were throwing a baseball. He smashes through the glass, careens through the air, and falls uncontrolled to the ground 30 feet below, completely missing the character that was on the ground underneath the window waiting to catch him."
Due to a string of bad casting checks and saving throw rolls, a boss wizard got polymorphed into a poodle, had its head explode, and wound up lying prone on the ground and bleeding from the nose as the martials went to crit town. He later told me he spent about two hours on this one boss trying to create a sufficient challenge for us and we just one rounded it. Not our DM's finest moment.
Oh, man. If we're talking about boss fails, I have a good one.
Exploding dice are an absolute riot as well. A buddy who ran WEG D6 Star Wars said dice only get to explode once after an utterly implausible series of exploding dice caused a TIE Fighter to take down a Star Destroyer.
I also had a strong potential villain die in one hit due to a x4 blast from a cannon, which was mainly because he was on a ship. Sucked, but it's a bitch move to have him still do things when 300 damage piles on due to high dice rolls.
That happened a lot in the Star Wars Saga game I was in back in the day. Ships had a x5 crit and would deal even more damage to smaller scale things. Had one rebel who was supposed to get away have his Headhunter get evaporated by a single twin turbo laser shot. The player had enough negative modifiers to not hit the ship yet rolled a 20. The player then rolled 80 damage, multiplied that by five to get 400 damage to the ship that could only take 120 plus Damage Reduction of 10 and the Shields at 15 there was no way the ship could survive (you have to deal more damage than the shields to damage the ship which can be absorbed by the DR. )
The World of Darkness games were infamous for exploding die blowing up the table. My personal anecdote is watching a Ventrue Prince (politically powerful but ultimately only as strong as a normal woman) slapping a recalcitrant neonate in the face. The ST reasoned she was angry enough to actually mean it and spend 1 blood point to buff her Strength by 1, and he rolled it as an attack.
I could be an odd case but I liked my Ventrue to be a little more physically powerful and played them more like a Yakuza or Triad member "might makes right" sort of charismatic leader.
Just like the Brujah like to talk about how they were once philosopher-kings, the Ventrue were once warrior kings and knights. There's no reason a Ventrue wouldn't be more hands-on if they wanted to. If anything, it's good for reducing resentment among the underlings.
