Royston
Joined: Dec 05, 2008
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May 12, 2009 - 20:57 |
 
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Er... wasn't The Fifth Elephant set mostly in Überwald? |
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Hogshine
Joined: Apr 04, 2007
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May 12, 2009 - 20:57 |
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| Gordreg wrote: | | ...they may not have been actually featured in a book yet, but Überwald's supposed to be full of stereotypical mad scientists building monsters with their Igor assistants; the whole of Überwald is basically a collection of horror movie cliches.... |
Uberwald was pretty much the only location in "The Fifth Elephant", but yes it's basically full of zombies, vampires, werewolves. (with some dwarfs living underground, but they rarely come above the surface...). Necromantic teams suit it by far the best, perhaps using flesh golems and zombies as Igors, and vampires could be wights (in the books they're much more powerful, but... meh), werewolves as werewolves. No idea about ghouls, I guess "vampires" could be them as well? Maybe just boot ghouls and wights from the team, I don't think the necro roster would suffer too much from that, certainly compared to some of the other modifications made 
Allowing them to hire the count whenever they want should make up for that. I shall ponder further |
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Gordreg
Joined: Sep 14, 2007
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May 12, 2009 - 21:05 |
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Ghouls are Ghouls, they're certainly in Discworld. Remember Mrs. Drull? 
I could agree with perhaps nixing wights, though. Either that, or have them count as Banshees or something else.
But since the Vampires and Werewolves feud, I doubt they'd be on the same team. A Vampire team can represent Vampire teams from Uberwald just as well as it can represent the Black Ribboners.  |
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SillySod
Joined: Oct 10, 2006
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May 12, 2009 - 21:12 |
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Arent werewolves and vampires generally on different sides of the polictical spectrum? Which means its very fitting that there are no vampires on the necromantic team... perhaps the Count should be either banned or declared a wolf lord. |
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Gordreg
Joined: Sep 14, 2007
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May 12, 2009 - 21:14 |
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All Stars are banned in the league (for now) aside from the three listed examples. Vampire teams can hire their lord 'cause he's a freebooter, not a Star. |
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Hogshine
Joined: Apr 04, 2007
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May 12, 2009 - 21:48 |
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| Gordreg wrote: | | Ghouls are Ghouls, they're certainly in Discworld. Remember Mrs. Drull? |
Ah, true. For some reason I thought Discworld ghouls were something completely different to Bloodbowl ghouls... *shrug*
Also, for another (probably related) reason I thought the vampires and werewolves had made up at the end of The Fifth Elephant, though it's been a couple of years since I actually read a Discworld novel, so could be wrong! However, from a balance point of view, a Necromantic team that just lacks wights probably won't need the boost of being able to bring the Count to any games... |
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SillySod
Joined: Oct 10, 2006
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May 12, 2009 - 21:51 |
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| Hogshine wrote: | | However, from a balance point of view |
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Tesifonte
Joined: Sep 06, 2004
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May 12, 2009 - 21:55 |
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This is so insane that I m loving it.
Thinking about rodents or humans (guards) |
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JoeMalik
Joined: Mar 03, 2008
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May 12, 2009 - 22:09 |
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I thought wights could be banshees, too. There is another banshee than Mr.Ixolite, remember?
I think there has to be a difference between golems and flesh golems. Discworld golems are - in a unique way - friendly, FG are not. But ok they are just results of some crazy experiments.
Zombies as Igors is obvious, but I´m not going to name every player Igor
There will be one Igor and the rest are human servants. |
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Grin
Joined: Mar 08, 2005
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May 12, 2009 - 22:09 |
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I am in with the "Mighty Silver Horde"! GREAT LEAGUE!!!!
Are Ogres allowed for the Barbarians? |
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Gordreg
Joined: Sep 14, 2007
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May 13, 2009 - 12:22 |
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Well, Ogres in this league represent Discworld's Golems or equivilants...I'm sure you can think of at least one very famous incident where Barbarian heroes were assisted by Terracotta warriors?
It's up to you, really. Do you think that bringing along a Golem will respect the code of the Barbarian Hero? You all know what happens when the code is broken... |
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KenThis
Joined: Jun 28, 2007
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May 13, 2009 - 12:49 |
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surely flesh golems are igors with zombies being townsfolk scared of their masters or igor apprentices.
anyway i want in
where do i sign.. |
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Tesifonte
Joined: Sep 06, 2004
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May 13, 2009 - 13:51 |
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What about norse-barbarians |
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Gordreg
Joined: Sep 14, 2007
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May 13, 2009 - 13:58 |
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Norse Barbarians are the sterotypical Hubland Barbarian Heroes, of course. |
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KenThis
Joined: Jun 28, 2007
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May 13, 2009 - 14:13 |
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