can somone help make stats for the "strangers" from Dark City [Archive] - Wizards Community

can somone help make stats for the "strangers" from Dark City [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Hammerhead
02-04-05, 10:17 PM Im not sure how there Tuning abilty would work. Also what creature type woudl they be?
Heironymus_Vann
02-04-05, 11:59 PM Well, it's been a long time since I've seen that.

As I recall, their tuning was cooperative, and they had a device which amplified their reality control. Also, they were a sort of alien humanoid, fairly perceptive and stealthy, and they had creepy, alien motives for whatever they were doing.

Just because they are kind of in that creepy mold of critters like illithids or aboleths, so I'm inclined to say they are "aberrations" as far a creature class goes.

The tuning ability could work several ways; you'd sort of have to decide if it's divine, arcane, or psionic.

They could be telepathically "networked" (via a kind of Rary's Telepathic Link) as a race, and be using a sort of widened cooperative Genesis (epic spell slot) to exert total control over a pocket dimension.

Or it could be illusory, and the "Dark City" could be a shadow-substituted figment or phantasm, with each Stranger controlling the programmed illusion defining a certain part of the City, and they could make it all work together by telepathically "matching" with each other... so maybe they are all powerful illusionist/shadowcraft mages, and are a form of aberrant, evil gnome.

It would be a form of Wish magic; pretty flexible there.

I confess an ignorance of the DnD psionic system, so I really don't have a suggestion there.

I'm kind of partial to a group of twisted, immortal gnomes (hey! psuedonatural gnomes!) from beyond space and time weaving a shadow-world for purposes of experimenting on captives there... the illusory shadow-world being contained in an extradimensional space, maybe an astral space. I think I'm going to have to write a mod for that one...

Anyway, a few Friday Night ideas.

HV
green_yawgmoth
02-05-05, 02:53 AM I'd say they were undead psions, actually. Wasn't it that they took the bodies of people who died and made them into 'strangers'? If I were out to make them, I'd grab the Libris Mortis and start slapping the necropolitan template on psions, say around levels 3-6. Their leader guy would be a psion 8ish, and John Murdoc would have to be at least 10. Assuming the average person is a level 1-2 expert/commoner/whatever.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v91/yawgmoth/kittyjig.gif
Soel Griffin
02-05-05, 05:19 AM The Keepers (Planescape 2ed, Fiend Folio 3e,) always reminded me of the creatures from Dark City.
Ob_Deamon
02-05-05, 12:09 PM The strangers were definately not humaniod. They inhabited humaniod corpses, but in a few instances you see a Stranger die, a strange, ephemeral, glowing thing tries to crawl out of their head before disolving itself.

Mr. Hand does make a truly distrubing antagonist, though.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Hammerhead 02-04-05, 10:17 PM	Im not sure how there Tuning abilty would work. Also what creature type woudl they be?
Heironymus_Vann 02-04-05, 11:59 PM	Well, it's been a long time since I've seen that. As I recall, their tuning was cooperative, and they had a device which amplified their reality control. Also, they were a sort of alien humanoid, fairly perceptive and stealthy, and they had creepy, alien motives for whatever they were doing. Just because they are kind of in that creepy mold of critters like illithids or aboleths, so I'm inclined to say they are "aberrations" as far a creature class goes. The tuning ability could work several ways; you'd sort of have to decide if it's divine, arcane, or psionic. They could be telepathically "networked" (via a kind of Rary's Telepathic Link) as a race, and be using a sort of widened cooperative Genesis (epic spell slot) to exert total control over a pocket dimension. Or it could be illusory, and the "Dark City" could be a shadow-substituted figment or phantasm, with each Stranger controlling the programmed illusion defining a certain part of the City, and they could make it all work together by telepathically "matching" with each other... so maybe they are all powerful illusionist/shadowcraft mages, and are a form of aberrant, evil gnome. It would be a form of Wish magic; pretty flexible there. I confess an ignorance of the DnD psionic system, so I really don't have a suggestion there. I'm kind of partial to a group of twisted, immortal gnomes (hey! psuedonatural gnomes!) from beyond space and time weaving a shadow-world for purposes of experimenting on captives there... the illusory shadow-world being contained in an extradimensional space, maybe an astral space. I think I'm going to have to write a mod for that one... Anyway, a few Friday Night ideas. HV
green_yawgmoth 02-05-05, 02:53 AM	I'd say they were undead psions, actually. Wasn't it that they took the bodies of people who died and made them into 'strangers'? If I were out to make them, I'd grab the Libris Mortis and start slapping the necropolitan template on psions, say around levels 3-6. Their leader guy would be a psion 8ish, and John Murdoc would have to be at least 10. Assuming the average person is a level 1-2 expert/commoner/whatever. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v91/yawgmoth/kittyjig.gif
Soel Griffin 02-05-05, 05:19 AM	The Keepers (Planescape 2ed, Fiend Folio 3e,) always reminded me of the creatures from Dark City.
Ob_Deamon 02-05-05, 12:09 PM	The strangers were definately not humaniod. They inhabited humaniod corpses, but in a few instances you see a Stranger die, a strange, ephemeral, glowing thing tries to crawl out of their head before disolving itself. Mr. Hand does make a truly distrubing antagonist, though.