Christmas Eve is here again! This is a night of personal and family traditions, and I have several of my own. Now after a year hiatus, the Amazing RPG Fun Pad Christmas Eve Celebration tradition is reborn! I present to you the 2018 Full Moon Entertainment Christmas Eve Extravaganza!
This year I discovered that Full Moon was coming out with their own comic book line! This is not the first time the characters of Full Moon have been in four colors. From Eternity Comics back in the early 90s to The Puppet Master series by Action Lab recently Full Moon has had some decent comics. In 2017 Full Moon Comix tapped into over 30 years of Full Moon and Empire Films history in Dollman Kills The Full Moon Universe a 6 issue miniseries. This is a well written comic with Dollman, former policeman Brick Bardo, 13 inches tall with an attitude decides to destroy the monsters of the Full Moon Universe.
This isn’t just simple cameos either! Many references and in jokes are in each issue to tie these disparate movies into a Full Moon Universe. Five issues have been released with the last issue in January. Check out for more about this fun line of comics.
I wish everyone Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas m, Happy New Year and a Happy Holidays all around!
This is a Light City version of a character I created for Icons 8 years ago! Enjoy!
Bonelord
Real Name: Clinton Darnell
First Appearance: Mike’s Amazing RPG Fun Pad, July 2010 AC: 4[15] HD: 4(20 HP) Attacks: Weapon (1d6 dmg), Magic Missile from Armor (1d6), or Mystic Item(s) Move: 12
Humanoid Skeleton: Bonelord is considered Undead and can be repelled by certain mystic rituals and is immune to Charm Person, Sleep and Illusion.
Spellcasting: Bonelord can cast the following spells at will: detect magic, read language, light. He can attempt to wield other spells, but strange things happen. (GM’s choice)
Armored Suit: This garish red and green alchemically treated armor grants -4[+4] armor bonus with no mobility loss and can fire magic missile for 1d6 damage.
Mystical Items: Bonelord usually carries around 1d3 items of variable mystic potency. GM can decide what Bonelord wields.
Unlucky: When it comes to magic spells and artifacts, Bonelord has horrible luck with such forces. Something will go wrong.
Bonelord looks like a walking, talking skeleton encased in a gaudy but effective suit of red and green armor. He always carries magical items of varying degrees of power. Despite not having any lungs, Bonelord still sounds like a normal human being. Bonelord claims to be Clinton Darner, a rich amateur occultist who accidentally summoned a demon of flaying instead of a hyperactive succubus like he wanted. The occultist escaped his imprisonment in Hell, but could not regain his original body, just his bones. Most of the mystic community believes this story. Bonelord has two reputations: he is extremely clever, but his also one of the unluckiest supervillains on Earth. A typical Bonelord plan usually involves gaining an artifact that can augment his meager magical skills and give him access to undreamt of magical ability. Procuring the artifact is usually no problem for Bonelord; controlling it is another matter. If an item will open up a gate to the Pure Heavens, an angry Archangel will send down some Seraphim to cleanse the North American continent. If one of the Lost Pages of the Necronomicon will raise “an army of bone”, Bonelord will summon some marrow eaters instead. Anything that can go wrong usually does around this villain. Even other weirdness magnets marvel at the bizarre ways that reality conspires to stop whatever he attempts to accomplish. Current Status: Mobile, still wreaking havoc by ham-handed use of mystic artifacts. In Light City Bonelord has repeatedly crossed paths with the Mystical Community who just want him too stop.
Here's a character for Light City, a fun superhero hack of the excellent Swords & Wizardry Light. Having fun playing around with the system a bit.
Mr. Steelfist, Certified Public Accountant!
Roy Kranzle was a mild mannered accountant who just wanted a nice comfortable job. In a rare instance of action he tried to protect several of his fellow employees during a paranormal battle. He should have died in the attempt Instead he was “gifted” with a pair of Technomantic Power Gauntlets at the whim of the mad goddess known as Lady Discordian. After the battle he found he could not remove them, as the chaos magic fused the Gauntlets onto him. It took months for Roy to learn how to wield and use his new hands.
At first flustered by his new abilities and his massive new hands, Roy soon began to use his sharp mind to guide the power he now had. He became a reserve member of the Justice Brigade to both learn to fight and use his abilities to help. During tax season Roy is the accountant for several superhero groups but he also helps fight the good fight as Mr. Steelfist CPA!
Mr. Steelfist, CPA Level 7 Elemental
Real Name: Roy Kranzle, CPA, First Appearance: Justice Brigade #125
Abilities: Str 14, Dex 12, Con 11, Int 16 (+1), Wis 12, Cha 11 Hit Dice: 5HD (25), Saving Throw: 9; Move: 12/48 (Mighty Swings) AC 7[12] (Steelfist Aura, negated by chaos magic) Attacks: Thunder Punch: +3 to hit; 1d6+1 kinetic damage; range 60ft Elemental Powers: Elemental Shield (Steelfist Block); Hold (Stunning Punch); Knocks /Lock (Weakness Detection), Radial Blast (Shockwave Strike)
Notes: In choosing the Elemental Class I reskinned it to represent the various powers of the Techno Gloves. Mighty Swings is grabbing a building and leaping from area to area. Knock/Lock is Steelfist using his intelligence to know the best place to strike to open or lock a door, gate, etc.
This character inspired by Rebel Minis 28mm Men in Black with Power Fists Miniatures.
Christmas Eve is here again! This is a night of personal and family traditions, and I have several of my own. Now, continuing the Amazing RPG Fun Pad Christmas Eve Celebration tradition, I present to you the 2016 Full Moon Entertainment Christmas Eve Extravaganza! Here's a playlist of some fun trailers including the fun 1986 Empire Pictures film Eliminators and a Videozone video magazine from Trancers II.
Holiday Notes....
As you look to the right I only had 3 posts this year and 1 of them was a repost. I had the usual things: writer's block, busy at work, family stuff, etc. Next year I want to post more. That's the plan, at least. While I haven't written much I have read a lot of blogs over this year. You all have awesome stuff! I'll have more next year I promise!
Now, as is customary on the Amazing RPG Blog, I present for some Christmas carols. Two of my favorites I present to you today. We have John Rutter's Angel's Chorus and the Immortal Darlene Love's "Christmas (BabyPleaseComeHome)" I wish everyone Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas to all of you.
Here’s a new monster for the incredibly fun Swords & Wizardry based B-Movie RPG Gary vs The Monsters by Magic Pig Media. Inspired by some fun Italian movies.
"They will make cemeteries their cathedrals, and the cities will be your tombs."
Tagline for Demoni (1985)
Nakazi (Contagion Demons)
Armor Class: 7 [12] Hit Dice: 2 Attacks: Claws 2x (1d6) or Bite (1d6) Total Atack Bonus: +2 Save: 17 Move: 15 (-1) Fear: -2
Special:
Infectious: Nakazi are creatures of contagion and plague. Anyone bitten or clawed by a Nakazi should make a Saving Throw. On a failure the victim turns into a Nakazi in 1d8 minutes.
Quarantine: Reality seems determined to cordon off the Nakazi from uninfected victims and goes to extreme lengths to do this. What was once a door is now a wall. The windows that offers escape before the summoning now opens to a pit of spikes. Coincidences pile up to keep the players and the Nakazi contained. All Saving Throws against Haywire and Fear are at -2 in the Quarantined area. On a failure the GM can decide that one or two Nakazi escape...
Foul Blood: The blood and bile of the Nakazi are capable of contagion as well. Anyone who is forced to swallow Nakazi blood or have it sprayed upon them should make a Saving Throw. On a Failure the victim has a 50% chance to be transformed into a Nakazi (GM discretion)
Killing It (B): Slashing, stabbing and burning are very effective against the Nakazi. The survivors can escape the Quarantine.
Similar to the Necroids (GvM p 37), the Nakazi are demonic spirits who seek to possess the living and wreak havoc. Unlike Necroids, the Nakazi are feral and destructive, rampaging monsters who want only to spread death and contagion. The Nakazi manifest through story and vision, summoned to reality by watchers and readers of works that introduce them to this reality. One victim is chosen, and soon begins to spread the infection throughout a confined space like a theater or an apartment building. If the Nakazi escape into the world, so much the better. Reality reacts to their very nature by confining them to one space and hoping the victims can stanch the contagion. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't...
With the death of horror great Angus Scrimm (aka the Tall Man from the Phantasm films), I wanted to dig up something from the past. Presented here is something I did back in 2012 for a blog challenge called Monstrous Monday. Enjoy.
Here's my first entry for Monstrous Monday using the Wanton Role-Playing System for a monster inspired by some horror movies. I have some stats for the tomb harvesters in Space Princess, but I can't find them right now. But anyway enjoy...
Tomb Harvesters You think that when you die, you go to Heaven? You come to us! The Tall Man, Phantasm II
Tomb harvesters appear as 7 foot tall male or female humanoids dressed in the funerary attire of whatever place they are currently inhabiting. Their skin tone range from a sickly white to ashen gray or washed out colors. The tomb harvesters slowly infiltrate the less advanced planets for the purpose of harvesting the dead of any humanoid species. First the dead are harvested from the cemeteries of small communities, and the bodies are sent to unknown dimensions via strange and unpredictable gates. As the harvester and their servitors become more entrenched the body theft become more brazen and the living are soon targeted. Living victims are transformed to various minion forms or drained of life force to fuel a variety of strange machinery. Unopposed by anyone a tomb harvester can wipe out a small planet in a few years, the entire world becoming an empty husk. Even if prevented from their task, the harvesters can cut a swath of death and destruction throughout an area.
Although they appear to by humanoid, tomb harvesters are theorized to be some kind of engineered being or revivified undead. They are superhumanly strong and very hard to kill, often shrugging off small arms and laser fire. Many harvesters have revealed the equivalent of psychic abilities such as telepathy, telekinesis, and illusion projection that are used to injure, kill, and confuse their victims . While all foes are seen as a danger, tomb harvesters will especially target opponents who demonstrate psychic abilities activated or latent. Psychics and espers have been known to sense tomb harvesters long before others, and untrained psychics seem to be either desired or feared by them.
The presence of a tomb harvester slowly starts to corrupt the reality around the areas were they lair. In some ways the harvesters are an extension of the gates that they use to transport their harvest. As their influence grows, the harvester can move in the shadows to confuse and capture their opponents. Time and space seem to bend around them, and many people who thought they have escaped for the tomb harvester have found that road winds back into the clutches of the fiend they were trying to escape.
Most Tomb Harvesters have abilities beyond the stats below. Each is in response to their environment and their personal interests.
The tomb harvester appears as a creepy human but is actually a technomantic construct designed to withstand pressures and environment that would kill most humanoids. Their build makes them superhumanly strong and resilient, and able to regenerate most forms of damage. Hand to hand combat with a tomb harvester is not recommended. (Blood doesn't 'look right')
Funerary Rites/ 3 dice
Wherever the tomb harvester is, it immerses itself in the funerary rites of the culture they have chosen to infiltrate. In most cultures the harvester becomes a priest, a mortician, or an executioner. In more barbaric cultures the harvester acts more like a ghoul on the outskirts of society feeding on the refuse of the dead. Whichever the result, the reverence, respect, and sometime fear that those who work with the dead are given allows the harvester to work in the shadows. (Wears funerary attire)
Warper of Reality/ 3 dice
The very nature of the tomb harvester warps the reality where their gates lie. The harvester is not omnipotent, but it can sense beings that invade it's complex easily. The harvester can cloak its nature from most people, appearing as a tall, albeit creepy humanoid As their influence grows the harvester can torment its victims with a variety of psychic abilities. A tomb harvester can follow a victim through the shadows silently, always appearing when they least expect them. (Appears where you know there wasn't a door)
Servitor/ Flaw
While very powerful, the tomb harvester is ultimately a servitor to the alien powers that created it. They have a tendency to follow their instinct to harvest the dead, and little else can get in the way of that goal. This can be used to overwhelm the harvester with unusual tactics it does not expect. (Listens to something that isn't there)
Warper of Reality/ Flaw
The tomb harvester's warping of reality can be noticed, especially by those with psychic or mystic ability. Things begin to change as the harvester works, and those who have dealt with tomb harvesters can trace the signs, and possibly stop them before it happens again to another town. In addition, latent mystics and psychic abilities seem to affect the warped reality of the tomb harvesters. The latents begin to dream of the harvester and the gates, and they are noticed back in kind. These people are either destroyed or used as templates for new tomb harvesters. (Flashes of the harvester's true form)
Inspired by the Phantasm movies and City of the Living Dead by Lucio Fulci.
