broo disease & chaos features

[mwsasser]

Are there any other Broo diseases besides the creeping chills, rabies or soul palsy from the main book?

Also, should I tweak each of the broo with the Chaotic Features table from Monster Coliseum or is that kind of over the top? I see Broo are listed as having chaos features but I was assuming that was just animal parts perhaps from the Physique Table?

Actually this brings up another question, if a Chaotic Effect does damage like the Burning... is that to all physical areas on the body? If you roll 4 and it's 1d8. Will that be 1d8 per body section of the victim or would you roll the 1d8 and spread that out among parts of the body?

 

[soltakss]

Are there any other Broo diseases besides the creeping chills, rabies or soul palsy from the main book?

Cults of Terror in RQ2 and Lords of Terror for RQ3 have a large number of diseases that broo can carry and spread.

I can't remember them all, but there is a disease for each of the Characteristics except SIZ:
Wasting Disease (STR), Creeping Chills (CON), Brain Fever (INT), Soul Waste (POW), The Shakes (DEX) and The Blotches (CHA/APP).

There is also another massive disease called Plague which is harder to resist and causes more characteristic points to be lost over a number fo characteristics.

Minor diseases include Bleeding Disease (Double healing cost to heal wounds) and Creeping Crud (reduced DEX and your skin turns nasty).

Also, should I tweak each of the broo with the Chaotic Features table from Monster Coliseum or is that kind of over the top? I see Broo are listed as having chaos features but I was assuming that was just animal parts perhaps from the Physique Table?

If you don't want every bros to have a chaotic fetaure, then give each one a POWx1% chance of having one (or 2 on a critical roll).

Broos are meant to be over the top, so I woudn't worry about making them too powerful.

I'm not sure about the chaos features table in Monster Coliseum, as I don't have that supplement, but older RQ tables had a Reverse Chaos Feature table that had a lot of features that were disadvantagous, so not every broo had useful features.

Actually this brings up another question, if a Chaotic Effect does damage like the Burning... is that to all physical areas on the body? If you roll 4 and it's 1d8. Will that be 1d8 per body section of the victim or would you roll the 1d8 and spread that out among parts of the body?

It depends on how you think the chaos feature manifests. I'd do 1D8 damage in one location normally, but if you want the feature to be powerul then do 1D8 to several or all locations.

 

[duncan_disorderly]

Are there any other Broo diseases besides the creeping chills, rabies or soul palsy from the main book?

Broo worship Malia, so can carry any disease (or possibly more than one). Not sure if any other diseases have been published officially for MRQ2 though...

Also, should I tweak each of the broo with the Chaotic Features table from Monster Coliseum or is that kind of over the top? I see Broo are listed as having chaos features but I was assuming that was just animal parts perhaps from the Physique Table?

It's probably over the top to tweak every broo*. I'm sure earlier versions of RQ used to suggest what percentage of chaos-tainted creatures were likely to exhibit a chaos feature - but I don't recall what it was for Broo - possibly 20%?

Those Broo with "beneficial" Chaos features are likely to become the leaders of their groups, so you could just add Chaos features to the "leader" Broo, (and maybe the occasional additional Broo, just to keep the players on their toes...)

*although this depends on how many you plan on using. If it's a single encounter with a raiding party of 4-5 Broo, then them all having features is not necessarily wrong. If it's an extended adventure where the party will be dealing with a settlement of 20+ Broo then you are probably making work for yourself...

Actually this brings up another question, if a Chaotic Effect does damage like the Burning... is that to all physical areas on the body? If you roll 4 and it's 1d8. Will that be 1d8 per body section of the victim or would you roll the 1d8 and spread that out among parts of the body?

With MRQ not having Total HP, I'd say its 1d8 per burning location, splitting 1d8 across locations makes it to easy to ignore (at least for a couple of rounds)

 

[mwsasser]

Thanks guys.

 

[EricJ]

Are there any other Broo diseases besides the creeping chills, rabies or soul palsy from the main book?

One minor disease from Cults of Terror would affect a random hit location by adding 2 points of armor to it, but make the location unhealable by both First Aid and magic Heal spells. Instead, a Repair spell would have to be used. Each time the disease progressed, an adjacent hit location would be affected.

The attached description came from a famous medieval description of leprosy.

 

[PrinceYyrkoon]

Chaos features, by definition, can come in all sorts of varieties. They can be quite minor too, (i.e., little or no game effect sometimes). Three nipples, eight fingers on the left hand, one big ear, one big hoof, blue fur, lizard tongue, an extra set of ribs, etc., etc..

I'd assume most broo have features such as these, and only a proportion of them have features which are notable in game terms, (worth mentioning, as it were).