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Corporate M
2010-06-30, 06:36 PM
This is something I've been thinking about creating for awhile now. Whitewolf comes up with all these other things, yet didn't think to capitalize on nerd porn: Highlander?

The thing of it is, though I like whitewolf's dedication to story and fluff, their mechanics are alot to be desired. So if I was going to work on Highlander: The Immortal, I'd probably seek to use it in d20 format so newbies would feel more welcome and there'd be more ways to do crazy ****...

It would probably be like d20 modern, and all of these are simply templates. Vampire templates, mage templates, and ofcourse immortal templates. Perhaps with different templates based on clan...

Highlander's a little different in there isn't really clans, (afterall, the whole point of being highlanders is to ultimately kill off one another) but there are "fighting styles". Some dishonorable, some honorable, that effect abilities and progression as a highlander.


Who would want to see not only a Highlander d20, but a d20 for all the other whitewolf products of simaler vibe so highlanders have to sometimes postpone their battles to teach werewolves and mad scientists a lesson?


More importantly, who'd want to get in on something like that? I might be able to comeup with template ideas and crap, but I'd need someone else to format it in a pdf, and we'd need to contact eachother perhaps on instant messanger or a social medium like facebook to discuss playtesting and perhaps mechanical tweaks.

comicshorse
2010-06-30, 06:40 PM
THis is something I've toyed with from time to time but how do you stop the PC's from beheading each other in the first session ?:smallsmile:

woodenbandman
2010-06-30, 06:46 PM
Just erase all the elves and make all the PCs elves.

Or Elans. Everyone loves Elans. Though technically dragonwrought kobolds are the closest as they take no aging penalties.

Corporate M
2010-06-30, 06:51 PM
THis is something I've toyed with from time to time but how do you stop the PC's from beheading each other in the first session ?:smallsmile:
True that. How highlanders would technically die is something that would have to be difficult but not impossible. At first I thought of giving some weapons vorpal as a template like reach weapons. But that was too good.

Then I settled with "an immortal must be struck with a critical hit that deals massive damage".

Critical hits are not too common, but a random critical would suck to die from. So combine it with it ALSO has to trigger massive damage, which in d20 modern is equal to con score. And I'm sure some clan templates would raise your massive damage threshold.

So the PCs could try and kill eachother. But mostly they'd just be leaving eachother a crippled mess.:smalltongue:

The Glyphstone
2010-06-30, 06:51 PM
I think someone already did this once, though it may have been Highlander D20 that I saw. Do some Google trawling, maybe you'll get inspiration?

Ranos
2010-06-30, 07:50 PM
There you go. (http://vampirerpg.free.fr/Rules/Highlander/) It's oWod though.

Salbazier
2010-06-30, 07:54 PM
Or Elans. Everyone loves Elans. T

No, I do not.

SethFahad
2010-07-01, 01:47 AM
THis is something I've toyed with from time to time but how do you stop the PC's from beheading each other in the first session ?:smallsmile:

Oooh-oooh! My immortal will be Lumi (MM3 98)!!! :smalltongue: Decapitation-proof!!! LOL

Optimystik
2010-07-01, 02:11 AM
I was never too into the mythos growing up; did the Highlanders have any actual powers? (Besides being immune to everything except a very specific injury with a very specific weapon)

comicshorse
2010-07-01, 07:36 AM
Posted by optimystik

I was never too into the mythos growing up; did the Highlanders have any actual powers? (Besides being immune to everything except a very specific injury with a very specific weapon)

They can sense each other when they are close.
Also they are not immune to anything, bullets hurt them just as much as a human being its just they heal incredibly fast, even from any death that isn't decapitatiopn ( but for dishonest immortals pumping your foe full of bullets and then cutting his head off is a viable tactic)
In the T.V series certain Immortals had definite supernatural abilities but it seemed they were talents they had learned as could any similairly talented human, its just with centuries to practice them they were much better than any human could be

Comet
2010-07-01, 07:40 AM
There are fan-made Highlander splats for both oWoD and nWoD, I think. Been a while since I followed that scene, though.

As for the World of Darkness in d20, I'm pretty sure Monte Cook got there first. Check out Monte Cook's World of Darkness, I hear it's not half bad if you like the d20 system and don't mind a world that is a bit more over the top.

But hey, this sounds interesting anyway, even if it's not exactly my thing.

Draxar
2010-07-01, 07:48 AM
There are splats for just about any and everything at BJ Zanzibar's World of Darkness (http://mypage.iu.edu/~adashiel/wod/).

Sure, it hasn't been updated in a decade. But it's still there.