Gurps Santa
MeaningWhat
MeaningWhat
> Anyone ever created Santa?
here are some things that come to mind:
longevity
patron (coca-cola, they made the nice red suits)
trademark (leaving presents behind)
odious personal habits (HO HO HO!)
obsession (visiting every home on december 24th or 25th)
compulsive behaviour (entering through chimney)
gadgets: (flying sled)
ally (?): bunch of reindeer, elf gnomes (puppets?)
charisma 5
reputation 5 or more ?
temperature tolerance (he seems to have a warm coat but i think at least
one level toward warm temperatures might be ok, maybe more. i have never
seen him without a coat.)
quirk: grow a nice white beard
he should have some form of Jumper ability. i would say his workshop is
in a parallel universe or another plane of existance.
thats all i could think of right now. maybe more will come to mind later.
MeaningWhat
their homes.
maybe legal immunity ? would the police arrest him for entering a home?
WDS
> Anyone ever created Santa?
I have a old 3E event I sometimes run at conventions where Santa is
kidnapped by Abominables (from the old animated Rudolph TV movie). I
had Santa created for it somewhere.
WDS
Well, I found the racial templates I used but not Santa himself. :-(
He was a "Big Elf".
Little Elf; 20/0; ; -3 ST Bonus, +1 IQ Bonus, +3 DX Bonus, -1 Move
Bonus, -2 Hit Points Bonus, +4 Craft Skills Bonus; Magical Aptitude@1,
Unaging, Elvish@0, Code of Honor: Craftsmans, Inconvenient Small Size,
Low Temperature Tolerance
Big Elf; 70/0; ; +1 IQ Bonus, +2 DX Bonus, +4 Craft Skills Bonus;
Magical Aptitude@1, Unaging, Elvish@0, Code of Honor: Craftsmans, Low
Temperature Tolerance
Reindeer; 150/0; ; *2 ST Bonus, +4 DX Bonus, -3 IQ Bonus, +3 HT
Bonus, +1 Hit Points Bonus, +1 PD Bonus, +2 DR Bonus; Mute, Flight,
Flying@1, Acute Hearing@4, Acute Taste and Smell@6, Enhanced Move@1,
Antlers (1-1 imp), 4 Legs, Low Temperature Tolerance, No Manipulators,
Inconvenient Body Form
Abominable; 55/0; ; *2 ST Bonus, +1 ST Bonus, -1 DX Bonus, -4 IQ
Bonus, +3 HT Bonus, +2 Hit Points Bonus, +3 DR Bonus; Low Temperature
Tolerance, Inconvenient Large Size, Odious Racial Habit: Carnivorous
MeaningWhat
Ingo Siekmann
> MeaningWhat schrieb:
>> Anyone ever created Santa?
> here are some things that come to mind:
>
> longevity
> patron (coca-cola, they made the nice red suits)
> trademark (leaving presents behind)
> odious personal habits (HO HO HO!)
> obsession (visiting every home on december 24th or 25th)
-snip
enemy (easter bunny) ?
Bye
Ingo
Michael W. Ryder
I would think he would also need either intangibility or super shrinking
to be able to get into all those homes from the roof.
David Johnston
<_mwry...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I would think he would also need either intangibility or super shrinking
>to be able to get into all those homes from the roof.
In the poem he uses shrinking.
David Johnston
Don't forget duplication x 1000
MeaningWhat
> Anyone ever created Santa?
could be a theme for a scenario
cop...@yahoo.com
Hehe. I have that comic book ;)
Brandon
WDS
The basic setup is that Santa has disappeared on a test run of the
backup sleigh just before Christmas. The players are the elves and
reindeer that go to look for him in the main sleigh. For equipment they
(the elves) have some of Santa's bags and so can have any toy in a toy
catalog I hand them. It is amazing how creative the players get with
this. For instance, I had one group use a "hotwired" (literally) EZ
Bake Oven to throw off a heat seeking surface to air missile that was
fired at them by the Bumbles.
Max Wilson
> I would think he would also need either intangibility or super shrinking
> to be able to get into all those homes from the roof.
Isn't that just a perk? Schtick: can use unsecured chimneys as easily
as doors.
-Max
Michael W. Ryder
If I remember the poem correctly he touched his nose and went down the
chimney which would imply some form of th, shrinking, or intangibility
to avoid the lit fireplace. Plus he can enter homes without any
chimneys and he does not displace any soot or get any on his clothing
while coming down. I can just imagine how most parents would feel to
find their living room covered in soot and dirty footprints Christmas
morning.
Michael W. Ryder
If I remember the poem correctly he touched his nose and went down the
chimney which would imply some form of teleportation, shrinking, or
Max Wilson
> If I remember the poem correctly he touched his nose and went down the
> chimney which would imply some form of teleportation, shrinking, or
> intangibility to avoid the lit fireplace. Plus he can enter homes
> without any chimneys and he does not displace any soot or get any on his
> clothing while coming down. I can just imagine how most parents would
> feel to find their living room covered in soot and dirty footprints
> Christmas morning.
I agree that not getting soot on him should be a separate perk. I
would say that homes without chimneys or homes with fires burning in
their chimneys either have to leave the door unlocked or else they
just don't get visits from Santa, but YMMV.
If he has full-blown teleportation/shrinking/etc. then he'll be able
to use it in other situations. I guess it depends upon how "realistic"
you want to make Santa--do you want to stat out the method, make his
Warp rolls, etc. or just handwave it away? Is Santa a superhero or
just a guy who has a flying sleigh and knows how to fit through
chimneys?
-Max
David Johnston
A _miniature_ sled and 8 _tiny_ reindeer.