marie@nmtvax.UUCP (03/14/84)
GRUNT I have run many campaigns for Gamma World in the Five years that I have had the game and have had a lot of fun doing it. I have had some requests to post some of the characters that have been run and encountered. Here is one of the most popular creatures of the plant variety: This is a player character named Grunt. His racial stock is Thorn-bush. He has been mutated. The creatures' size has been increased to seventeen feet in height. It has throwing thorns that have a range of twenty meters. These thorns radiate intensi- ty twelve radiation into the bodies of the creatures' victims. The thorns are one foot long. The plant fiber that gives the creature its' structural integrity also radiates at intensity eight. This radiation surrounds the creature to a range of fifty meters. Armor class on the plant is six and experience is seven thousand three hundred. Its level of experience is two. Ad- vancement benefits are: +1 damage/die Its' hit points and hit dice are: Hit Points 91 Hit Dice 17 The major attributes of the character are: Mental Strength: 12 Dexterity: 11 Charisma: 9 Intelligence: 9 Constitution: 17 Physical Strength: 15 The mutations for a plant are not split into physical and mental categories. Mutations: Radiated Thorns Mobility (Walk) Size Increase New Plant Parts (Brain + Nervous System) Radiated Plant Fiber New Senses = To Human Dissolving Juices (5d6) Saw-Edged Leaves (6) (1d4 Each) Spore Cloud (1d8) Contact Poison Sap (13) Limited Adaptation (Immune To Sonic Attack) Barbed Leaves Low Fertility Bacterial Symbiosis The plant has acquired the ability to read but not write. It also knows how to drive a limited number of vehicles. Equipment: Energy Mace (4 Charges Left) 30 Damage 1 Heavy Vibro Gun (4 Shots) 0 Used 3 Reloads For Heavy Vibro Gun Laser Pistol 2 Charges Energy Mace 3 Charges Equipment Carried: