#rpgkaiju Ray Otus Oh man, folklore is full of gigantic antagonists. Scale can escalate the severity of the threat quick. I remember someone here suggesting location based moves for fighting really big opposition piece by piece in DW. Also, I know Iron Edda: World hinges on the conceit of fantastic kaiju as well, but I have only skimmed the material. Besides, with the wizard’s Ritual move, and the paladin’s Quest immunities, with some forethought a DW party can come packing some pretty serious giant slaying gear.
Seeing some moves against giants would be cool. I once had a dinosaur in an arena (long story) fight against the party. It had the move, hard to reach parts, and shrugged off 7-9 damage when it used that move unless the characters had fictionally positioned themselves to advantage, like attacking from a mount or climbing up on its back. But I would love to see something from the player perspective, “When you attack the giant’s leg…” etc.
PS I think you meant #rpgkaiju, if you are relating this post to the question I asked earlier.
Ray Otus thanks for the catch on the hashtag! I bet your druid was excited about the dinosaurs.
To tell a good bit of the story in a single run-on sentence: he was “The Relic,” a creature from another time and place who had wandered into this world as a baby, through a magic mirror in the basement of a palace in an ancient city that had been abandoned by its architects and is now inhabited by a race of sentient apes. 🙂 The druid didn’t think to even ask about studying it for the purpose of shape-changing. I put a cap on the size of shape-shifts anyway. Rat to Rhino is my rough range. I put in that limitation after having a druid pull this stunt one too many times – turn into a bird, fly over the villain, shift into narwhal form, and drop. I made him take a good deal of damage because whales aren’t mean to be on land, they can suffocate from their own weight, but still. Another decent limitation I have considered is that you can’t shift from one animal to another, you have to return to human form in between.
Ouch broken ribs- whales don’t bounce.