The process is identical to making ghoul retainers. Make the human, add the supernatural template, add XP if over rating 1.
Does this create a weak as hell retainer? Yes. Such is the price of playing a bloodline whose writer had to lowball the power to win a contest. On the plus side, they are immune to mental and social powers, which is pretty useful. Brian Misamore US2002022359 On 9/16/09, Michael Mershon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I don't remember if this was ever discussed but I am sitting down to work on > several zombie templates to help out my vst and so that I can have them to > represent my retainers and find myself at an stand still. > > The rules for Shuffling Porters and the Improved Shuffling Porters made with > Cattiveria are very simple in the write up, but make crappy zombie retainers > either way. > The Addendum says that we use the same rules for retainers to create our > zombies. > So other than Cost, how is that being interpreted? > > Do we build a normal human, lets say a police officer, give him all the > starting attributes, skills, merits, etc. that make since. > Then kill him, convert him to a shuffling porter, dropping his attributes, > etc. down, then using "The Predator's Bequest" on him making him better, > giving him the bumps, but still having a crappy retainer. > Or does the Addendum change make it more along the lines of he keeps most of > what he had in life as long as it makes since, and maybe he is a little > dumber and slower, but stronger and tougher. > > I tend to think that if I am spending xp to purchase retainers, and then can > reanimate my dead retianers, they should be pretty well the same, save for > the whole zombie thing and maybe a taste for brains. > > My VST also asked if it would be appropriate to add some of the zombie > template stuff from the antagonists book? > > Thanks in advance... > > -- > Mike Mershon > US2002021405 > > "The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote." > - Kosh to M'ola in Babylon 5:"Believers" > > "The future is always changing. We create the future: with our words, our > deeds and with our beliefs. This is a possible future, Commander, and it is > my hope that you may yet avoid it." > -- Lady Ladira to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" > > "Isn't it strange, G'Kar? When we first met, I had no power .. and all the > choices I could ever want. And now I have all the power I could ever want .. > and no choices at all. No choice .. at all." > -Emperor Londo Mollari > > > > -- Sent from my mobile device --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Sangiovanni Wiki can be found at www.san-giovanni.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ooc-sangiovanni" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ooc-sangiovanni?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
