War Dogs...

[weswood]

When I first started playing RPGs, I played Dungeons & Dragons. My character was a pretty weak fighter who was several levles lower than the rest of the group, so he bought a war dog. The dog was named Rauol (odd how I remember this over 25 years later) who was a bad, bad puppy. He had one less hit point than the character (Homer the elven fighter). Every time Homer would go up a level, the DM let me add his hit points to the dog. I think when the dog finally died he had 23 hit points.

[weswood]

Those hyenas are huge, I never realized they were so big. I guess I've never seen them next to a person before to give a size reference. I'm definately going to have to add a pack of zoo escapees to my list of random encounters!

[General Pain]

Those hyenas are huge, I never realized they were so big. I guess I've never seen them next to a person before to give a size reference. I'm definately going to have to add a pack of zoo escapees to my list of random encounters!

now that's what I call a plan... hehe

[Adm.Lee]

Somewhere in the news (For Your Eyes Only, I think) I just saw that the Iraqis are just now overcoming the Arabic distaste for dogs, to start training their own. Seeing them in the US services is obviously what gave them the idea.

My last D&D 3.5 character was a druid-fighter with a war dog. We referred to the dog as the "second-best fighter in the company." My dice seemed to like her better than my "real" PC, anyway.

It would seem a cinch for any group to want to have trained guard or hunting dogs in T2k.

[Targan]

When we were teenagers I ran a D&D campaign that MajorPo played in and he played a druid (whose name is now lost in the mists of time). This druid had a war dog named Lionel. The druid died on about the second session of the campaign and MajorPo asked me if he could play Lionel who was much more effective in combat anyway. Despite the limited role playing opportunities Lionel actually fared spectacularly well.

[Canadian Army]

I had this for awhile, so I thought I should post it. The dogs info this from Paul's site.

[kato13]

bumping for Major Po's attention. Good to see you back BTW.

[pmulcahy11b]

Praise Google

I have noticed over the past two months or so, you have achieved your black belt in Google-fu.

[General Pain]

I have noticed over the past two months or so, you have achieved your black belt in Google-fu.

takes years of googling....

[MajorPo]

Ah the martial arts contest... I remember it well. I also remember how everything turned sour in the end and we had a mass riot on our hands. As is often the way in our campaign we try and do something nice for everyone and it all somehow goes wrong. I think Targan gains a little perverse pleasure from putting clouds around any silver linings that may ever so briefly sparkle

As to the dog for Martinez I actually can't remember my original reason for denying the request. More recently though Po has been having trouble with animals. I'm not entirely sure whether it relates to some kind of curse or possibly due to his high levels of 'bad karma' (part of our eclectic religion rules) but for some time now no animals will come within about 50m of Po and when forced to they become overwhelmed with panic or aggression. This actually has worked quite well in the ruins of New York as it keeps the rats away. It could prove socially akward in the future though so I'll have to try and work out how to fix it sometime soon

[kato13]

As to the dog for Martinez I actually can't remember my original reason for denying the request. More recently though Po has been having trouble with animals. I'm not entirely sure whether it relates to some kind of curse or possibly due to his high levels of 'bad karma' (part of our eclectic religion rules) but for some time now no animals will come within about 50m of Po and when forced to they become overwhelmed with panic or aggression. This actually has worked quite well in the ruins of New York as it keeps the rats away. It could prove socially akward in the future though so I'll have to try and work out how to fix it sometime soon

Thanks for the explanation. I kinda thought the blanket might scare dogs but Po's bad karma makes just as much sense.

[Targan]

I think Targan gains a little perverse pleasure from putting clouds around any silver linings that may ever so briefly sparkle

I learned from the master.

More recently though Po has been having trouble with animals. I'm not entirely sure whether it relates to some kind of curse or possibly due to his high levels of 'bad karma' (part of our eclectic religion rules) but for some time now no animals will come within about 50m of Po and when forced to they become overwhelmed with panic or aggression. This actually has worked quite well in the ruins of New York as it keeps the rats away.

Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about that.

We use a modified version of Harnmaster's religion rules for those characters that have a faith or belief system. Po is a Buddhist so he has a Karma score instead of the usual Piety score. Some of the Catholic PCs and NPCs have used the religion rules to attempt to call for divine intervention in the past.

The funniest thing for me about Po being a Buddhist is that he knows he isn't a very good one.

I will neither confirm or deny whether Po's animal fear effect is due to his negative karma level or a curse but I suspect he knows which it is.