Originally posted by The_Dark_One
Does this seem like a good idea to anyone? It would be the only game with No Humans!!!! , robots would be allowed (and would all have personality problems), and Suicidal Depression would be a feat tha allows you to cause someone to commit suicide just by talikng to them (possibly only avaiable to robots).
but wasn't arthur human??????????????
It would also need rules for multiple near identical multiverses and how to switch between them quickly.
Originally posted by Shadow Weaver
(and actually use it for something other than Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster recipes).
You can use it for other things??
You'd need alcohol rules. There's always lots of Alcohol.
There's rules for getting drunk in the Arms and Equipment Guide D&D supplement/splatbook.
(Although for 'Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters', you may have to use the drug rules from Sharn: City of Towers, and/or from Lords of Darkness, and/or from Book of Vile Darkness instead)
it might be impossible to make one... well, to make a fair one at least. maybe.
"[i]if you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe"...[/i]
I have played a HGGX d20 game , improvised of course. It requires a good DM and players.
It would also need rules for multiple near identical multiverses and how to switch between them quickly.
Can you post of a copy of the house rules that were used? Please
HAGUNEMNON
Large Aberration (Shapechanger)
Hit Dice: 44d8+616 (814 hp)
Initiative: +17 (+13 Dex, +4 Improved Initiative)
Speed: 50 ft.
AC: 50 (–1 size, +13 Dex, +28 natural)
Base Attack/Grapple: +33/+58
Attack: Slam +54 (2d6+21/19-20) melee
Full Attack: 5 slams +54 (2d6+21/19-20) melee
Space/Reach: 10 ft./10 ft.
Special Attacks: Psionics, destabilize form
Special Qualities: Alter shape, DR 10/epic, darkvision 120 ft., immunities, regeneration 50, spell resistance 39
Saves: Fort +40, Ref +39, Will +32
Abilities: Str 53, Dex 37, Con 39, Int 20, Wis 23, Cha 34
Skills: Bluff +59, Diplomacy +53, Disguise +59, Hide +35, Intimidate +47, Jump +29, Listen +55, Move Silently +35, Sense Motive +29, Spot +55
Feats: Alertness, Cleave, Combat Reflexes, Endurance, Great Cleave, Great Fortitude, Improved Initiative, Iron Will, Lightning Reflexes, Multiattack, Power Attack, Weapon Focus (slam)
Epic Feats: Blinding Speed, Devastating Critical (slam), Overwhelming Critical (slam)
Climate/Terrain: Any
Organization: Solitary
Challenge Rating: 29
Treasure: Standard
Alignment: Always chaotic neutral
Advancement: 45–59 HD (Large); 60–74 HD (Huge); 75–89 HD (Huge)
A hagunemnon’s natural weapons are treated as epic for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.
COMBAT
Psionics (Sp): At will —detect thoughts, dimension door, ethereal jaunt, knock, nondetection, plane shift, suggestion. Caster level 20th, save DC 22.
Destabilize Form (Su): If a HAGUNEMNON hits with two or more slam attacks in the same round, it partly destabilizes its foe’s physical form, dealing an additional 4d6+31 points of Damage as well as 2 points of temporary Constitution Damage. If the victim is drained to 0 Constitution, its dead body is only so much clear fluid that drains away unless somehow preserved by friends of the victim.
Alter Shape (Ex): A hagunemnon can assume the shape of any combination of physical nondeific creatures at the same time as a free action. In fact, a hagunemnon’s form constantly boils, and it requires a move-equivalent action each round for a protean to maintain a certain shape (even if that shape is a combination of several shapes). Whatever its present form, the hagunemnon retains all its own special qualities. Plus, it gains the advantage of up to four extraordinary abilities from the forms it mimics (but not spell-like or supernatural powers). The assumed form can be no smaller than a flea and no larger than 200 feet in its largest dimension (make sure to take into account rules for reach and size modifiers to AC and melee attacks). Incorporeal traits can also be assumed, which counts as a single extraordinary ability. If a hagunemnon assumes a partial form that confers an extraordinary ability already possessed by the creature, only the better of the two abilities is retained. No matter its form, the hagunemnon can never make more than five attacks using a full-round action. However, it may substitute a melee attack form for one of its slam attacks, using its own base attack bonus and Strength modifier to Damage, but dealing base Damage appropriate to the attack type.
These guys appreared in episodes five through uh seven, but mainly episode six, of the Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy radio play.
Does this seem like a good idea to anyone? It would be the only game with No Humans!!!!
That depends on weather or not you take the horrible fourth and fifth sequels; "So Long and Thanks For All the Fish" and "Mostly Harmless" as canon. The Earth is restored in those books, I think by the omnipotent cyber-being Guide Mark II....
(But I'm not sure because I didn't read those last two books very closely; they were so BAD (At least as compared to the first three))
How about the feat 'Flight' which requires a wisdom check to see if you remember to fall every time you trip?
Speaking of which, theoretically, Couldn't you take a shortcut of sorts in regards to learning to fly by projecting a S.omebody E.lse's P.roblem field around the ground?
Fine Magical Beast (Augmented Outsider)
Hit Dice: 1/8 d8 (1 hp) (2d8 in outsider form)
Initiative: +0
Speed: 10 ft. (2 squares), climb 10 ft.
Armor Class: 12 (+2 size, +0 Dex), touch 12, flat-footed 12
Base Attack/Grapple: +0/–12
Attack: Bite +2 melee (1d3–5)
Full Attack: Bite +2 melee (1d3–5)
Space/Reach: 2-1/2 ft./0 ft.
Special Attacks: —
Special Qualities: Low-light vision, scent
Saves: Fort +3, Ref +3, Will +4
Abilities: Str 1, Dex 11, Con 10, Int 18, Wis 12, Cha 10
Skills: Balance +10, Climb +12, Hide +14, Move Silently +10, Swim +10
Bluff +5, Disguise +5, Gather Information +5, Search +9, Escape Artist +5, Knowledge (Any three) +9, Knowledge (The Planes) +9, Disable Device +9, any other two (Five Ranks)
Feats: Weapon Finesse (B), Able Learner (Fron Races of Destiny) or uh Education, uh, from, (The} Eberron Campaign Setting)
Environment: Any
Organization: Plague (10–100)
Challenge Rating: ????????
Advancement: By Character Class
Level Adjustment: —
These omnivorous rodents thrive almost anywhere. They are actually projections of superintelligenct extradimensional creatures into our dimension and not the little rodents that they appear to be.
Combat
Rats usually run away. They bite only as a last resort.
Skills: Mice have a +4 racial bonus on Hide and Move Silently checks, and a +8 racial bonus on Balance, Climb, and Swim checks. A rat can always choose to take 10 on Climb checks, even if rushed or threatened. A rat uses its Dexterity modifier instead of its Strength modifier for Climb and Swim checks. A rat has a +8 racial bonus on any Swim check to perform some special action or avoid a hazard. It can always choose to take 10 on a Swim check, even if distracted or endangered. It can use the run action while swimming, provided it swims in a straight line.
Mice also gain skill points for their uh Outsider HD
All you'd really need to do, is convert Tales from the Floating Vagabond to d20 rules and then mix in a few HHG tidbits.
I'm not familiar with 'Tales of the Floating Vagabond', what is it????
Arthur Dent: True neutral
Ford Prefect: True Neutral (Possibly Chaotic Neutral)
Zaphod Beeblebrox: Chaotic Neutral
Tricia McMillian (Trillian): True neutral (Possibly Neutral Good)
Marvin "The Paranoid Android": Lawful Neutral
Prostetnic Vogon jeltz: Lawful Evil (or Lawful Neutral if we take the Guide...'s word for it)
Gag Halfront (Raqdio Play Version): Neutral Evil
[b]Gag Halfront (Tv Miniseries, and novel 'trilogy' version'): True neutral
Slartibartfast: Neutral Good
Agrajag/Nameless Rabbit/Bowl of Petunias: True Neutral (But Completely Insane)
Frankie & Benji Mouse: Lawful Neutral; Possibly true neutral or Lawful Evil
The Main Course: True Neutral
The Ruler of the Universe: True neutral
Max Quadropleen: True Neutral???? ???? ????
Hotblack Desiato: ????????????????
Eddie the Shipboard Computer: Neutral Good (Possibly Chaotic Good???? ????????)
That depends on weather or not you take the horrible fourth and fifth sequels; "So Long and Thanks For All the Fish" and "Mostly Harmless" as canon. The Earth is restored in those books, I think by the omnipotent cyber-being Guide Mark II....
(But I'm not sure because I didn't read those last two books very closely; they were so BAD (At least as compared to the first three))
Nope. The dolphins restored it. I personally find the 4th and 5th books of the trilogy to be excellent, since they answer some of the less well-known questions. (Such as why the petunia thought "Oh no, not again.)
Edit: That was in the third book.
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Marvin also dies, IIRC, in a rather touching moment in which he sees God's final message to the universe.
Edit: This might have been in the third book too. Been a few years since I read the books.
Edit: This might have been in the third book too. Been a few years since I read the books.
I personally find the 4th and 5th books of the trilogy to be excellent, since they answer some of the less well-known questions. (Such as why the petunia thought "Oh no, not again.)
The bit where Agrajag tries to kill Arthur Dent, and in which the petunia bit is finally explained is from Life, the Universe, and Everything, which is the THIRD book in the series, not the swutting fourth or fifth.
My main problem with the last two books is that most of the joojooflop main characters are missing from most of the action, as are the starships Heart of Gold and Bistromath. Furthermore, in the fifth book, the explanation for how Arthur got to the paralell universe is hidden in a tiny scene that I did not put to memory initially because it seemed so insignificant, and which it took me several re-readings to even FIND again (I don't re-read books in a completely linear fashion, because I generally don't have the time to re-read them straight through, or the attention span to read the entire thing once I know how everything plays out).
Anyway, I guess that the last two books are OK, but they don't really have the same sort of spirit as the first three.
The bit where Agrajag tries to kill Arthur Dent, and in which the petunia bit is finally explained is from Life, the Universe, and Everything, which is the THIRD book in the series, not the swutting fourth or fifth.
Bad memory. Sorry. The death of Agrajag that hadn't occured yet occurs in the fifth book.
Someone please explain about the bowl of petunias.
One of two left in the universe. I doubt they would be PCs. Although, there would be a lot of very humanlike creatures (does anyone know how Ford is different from humans? Would they average person notice? (They didn't.)
Actually, there is the King.
The initials 'EP', singing 'Heartbreak Hotel' and 'Love me Tender' and Ford Prefects question on whether or not he was actually abducted by aliens. There isn't exactly proof but there is no doubt!
I wanna be Marvin! (Trust me, I can be dull, depressing and irritating enough to make Colin depressed (reprogrammed robot from the Guide's headquarters))
And a quote:
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Ford: "I was down on my knees and bleeding profusely, so I did the only thing I could think of, which was to beg. I said please, for Zark's sake, don't take my ship. And don't leave me stranded in the middle of some primitive zarking forest with no medical help and a head injury. I could be in serious trouble and so could she"
Arthur: "What did she say"
Ford: "She hit me on the head with the rock again"
Arthur: "I think I can confirm that that was my daughter"
Ford: "Sweet kid."
Arthur: "What did she say"
Ford: "She hit me on the head with the rock again"
Arthur: "I think I can confirm that that was my daughter"
Ford: "Sweet kid."
Honestly, book five was the worst in my opinion. It would be considered canon, but I pretty much ignore it at this point. It would have been better to leave it open to more wacky adventures.
I didn't like the fifth book either; it was even worse than the fourth one.
Thinking Cap: Powered by lemon juice, this device gives its wearer +1d3+1 to intelligence and wisdom for ten minutes for every half lemon inserted into the juicer on the top of the helmet.
(Oh, and hey, I just realized that my previous post was the forty second post on the thread.)
One idea was to great the guide, and let it basically grant you a +10 to all knowledge checks and you can refer to it when you need help (DM's advice basically), BUT the catch was the you had to make a wisdom check whenever you wanted to use it to see if you could even under what the guide was telling you. Critical Success ment the guide was the perfect help, success just ment it helped you out like always, failure ment you couldn't understand it at all, and a Critical failure ment you thought you understood it but you really didn't.
Flight would be a skill that you couldn't be gained by level progression or by occupation. It would have to granted by the DM in the same way Arthur gained in the books.
If the players wanted to be human-like they could be like Ford and be from the betalgusian galaxy (Spelling error I know >_< ). But yeah, otherwise the players would deffinately have to be something of an alien species, although alternate human-like species exist.
these were just a few of our early ideas, i'm sure if I read the books again I could come up with more
I wanna be Marvin! (Trust me, I can be dull, depressing and irritating enough to make Colin depressed (reprogrammed robot from the Guide's headquarters))
IMO, Marvin was the character that most disapointed me in the movie (second was Zaphod, third was Slartibartfarst, fourth was Ford, fifth was Trillian. Aurthor was semidecent. Prosthenic Volgon Gelts of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council was perfect, although lacking just a leedle bit in the sensles violence and corruption areas)
I mean, sure Marvin is depresed. But that not all he is: he also harbors a fair amount of malevolence tempered by apathy. When he first meets Ford and Aurthor, the only reason he doesn't direct physical violence against them is that part of him says, "Oh why bother". The only pleasure he gets out of life is spreading his misery to others.
In the movie, he was just sort of depressed.
*-2 charisma, -2 wisdom, +2 strength. Vogons are strong and powerful, but are a bunch of anti-social idiots.
*+2 bonus to intimidate. Vogons love shouting.
*Buercratic dependency:
If not given orders by a superior Vogons, all Vogons under the rank of shouting officer or council member must make a will save(DC 13) to do anything that he would not do on a normal day
*Automatic Language: Vogon
Feat:
VOGON POETRY
You know the 3rd worst peotry in the universe. Good for you.
Prequistives: Vogon
Benefit: If you take 2 full rounds to recite your poetry to a listener, they must make a fort check(DC 15) or experience voilent spasms(2d6 damage per round for 1d4 rounds)
*+6 intelligence, -4 strength, -2 con
Size: Diminutive
Low light vision
Automatic Languages: Mice
This is all for d20 modern
Cachalot Whale
Gargantuan Animal
Hit Dice: 12d8+87 (141 hp)
Initiative: +1
Speed: Swim 40 ft. (8 squares)
Armor Class: 16 (–4 size, +1 Dex, +9 natural), touch 7, flat-footed 15
Base Attack/Grapple: +9/+33
Attack: Bite +17 melee (4d6+12)
Full Attack: Bite +17 melee (4d6+12) and tail slap +12 melee (1d8+6)
Space/Reach: 20 ft./15 ft.
Special Attacks: —
Special Qualities: Blindsight 120 ft., hold breath, low-light vision
Saves: Fort +15, Ref +9, Will +6
Abilities: Str 35, Dex 13, Con 24, Int 2, Wis 14, Cha 6
Skills: Listen +15*, Spot +14*, Swim +20
Feats: Alertness, Diehard, Endurance, Improved Natural Attack (bite), Toughness
Environment: Temperate aquatic
Organization: Solitary or pod (6–11)
Challenge Rating: 7
Advancement: 13–18 HD (Gargantuan); 19–36 HD (Colossal)
Level Adjustment: —
Addendum:
Awakened during Flight (Su): While in flight (or falling), the whale is automatically awakened, as through the awakening spell. This does not give the whale a flight speed, nor a magical flight ability. Using a spell or ability that gives the mind read or telepathy ability while the whale is in flight (or falling) lets the caster communicate.
This ability only lasts as long as the whale is in flight (or falling). Should the whale die after the fall, a speak with dead spell could lead to a lot more knowledge about the nature of the universe.
Doesn't anybody have anything else to say??
Don't panic!!!
(sorry!)
Unnatural Migration (Su): When out of sight from any settlement or creature native to the planet, these creatures may 'jump' through time and space, instantly transferring to the King.
I will always think of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as A Trilogy in Four Parts!
You could even incorporate DnD races and monsters by just adding a slightly rediculous hint to them. And if you ever wanted to play a Human character just come up with a wacky and near-impossible background story. Perhaps your character was abducted and was dumped on a random populated planet, or a wizard/shaman from a distant past got more than bargained for when his arcane ramblings was actually a precise protodeific procedure for interdimensional travel.
) but a robot cant die :P you can just rebuild marvin just they way he was. And i think the SEP should be a spell. Humans should be in the game.
And their should be rules about that you can kill your self to not pay taxes :D or you can just kill your self and then use a raise dead spell and no taxes for the year :D. What race should zaphod be? and the pan-glactic-gragle blaster(sp?) should make you not be able to move for 2 rounds and you lose 1 point of Int and Wis.
has anyone stated the TOWEL?
Towel
Pruchase DC: 5
"A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough."
When used as a cloak, a towel grants a +2 competence bonus on fortitude saving throws made to resist cold temperatures. It can also have the same effect as a bedroll. When used as a part of a raft, given adequate wind, taht raft gains a speed of 20 feet in the same direction of the wind or deviating from it diagonally. When used to filter dangerous noxious gases, a towel allows its user to breath comfortable for 1D12 rounds, after which the user must make saves as normal. It allows its user to breath comfortably in mild noxious gases indefinitely.
When wetted and used as a weapon, the towel is exotic, but can be wielded as a simple weapon. A towel-wielder with its exotic weapon proficiency gets a +2 equipment bonus on opposed rolls for trip and disarm checks. The towel deals 1D4 nonlethal damage, and deals no damage to foes with natural, medium, or heavy armor, and deals 1D6 nonlethal damage instead and doesn't need the towel to be wet to use it. ADDED: The towel grants a +2 equipment bonus on bluff and diplomacy checks made to purchase any supplies that the hitchiker just "happened to forget."
But, what about playable races?
Adrez Nesnsid said his post was post #42. and what question was asked in post #41?
"Does anybody have any ideas as to how to stat out the "Point Of View gun" from the movie?????????"
The answer? 42!
We've figured it out! we know both the Question and the Answer!
*Ascends to godhood with divine rank: 25*
*With both the question and the answer known, the universe vanishes and is replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. Again. We no longer exist.*
If at any point you think about falling, or remember that you have mass, or if someone says something resembling "Hey, you can't fly!" or "How are you doing that?" You immediately start falling, and must miss the ground again with the same check as before.
I can't wait to strike down an enemy with a towel.
But, what about playable races?
Well, definitely Humans, Beetlegeuseians, Magratheans, Vlitvoordleites, Vogons, Krikkitmen, Robots, Bleurontinians, disembodied voices, Hooloovoos, the V'luhurgs, and the G'gunvits, and that warlike race that tried to destroy the universe beore the Krikkitmen did, the Mice, and the bird people who refuse to talk about shoes should all be statted out (I think that I may have misspelled several of these races' names, by the way, however).
A lot of the standard (and non-standard) races and D&D monsters and many campaign specific D&D monsters (Quori, Draconians, Malaugryms, et cetera) and D20 Modern menaces could also be easily be inserted and rationalized in, in and explained as being some kind of alien creatures of one sort or another. Did you ever see the old BBC miniseries version of HHGTTG during the scene at Milliways, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe? There were all kinds of crazy lookin' critters/folks there...
Beetlegeusians look excactly like humans. They also have the same game stats, and anything that would affect a human affects a beetlegeusian as well, and the other way around.
But they're not the same race, and are in no way related!
+4 Strength, +2 Con, -4 Wis,-4 Dex, -6 Cha. Vogons are large, but rather dull. They also have notoriously bad aim and poorly defined senses of self.
Large Size. As large creatures, Vogons enjoy....
Racial Hit Dice. Vogons have 3d8 hit dice...
Vogons recieve a +4 racial bonus to any Use Technological Device roll. They are skilled at opperating complex machines.
Illiteracy. Vogons do not autimatically gain the ability to write at first level. They may overcome this ability by investing two skill points. Few Vogons bother, as this handicap does not interfier with thier ability to use technological devices in any way.
Vogon Racial Traits
+4 Strength, +2 Con, -4 Wis,-4 Dex, -6 Cha. Vogons are large, but rather dull. They also have notoriously bad aim and poorly defined senses of self.
Large Size. As large creatures, Vogons enjoy....
Racial Hit Dice. Vogons have 3d8 hit dice...
Vogons recieve a +4 racial bonus to any Use Technological Device roll. They are skilled at opperating complex machines.
Illiteracy. Vogons do not autimatically gain the ability to write at first level. They may overcome this ability by investing two skill points. Few Vogons bother, as this handicap does not interfier with thier ability to use technological devices in any way.
I think they would already have literacy given how they write poetry and are a bearicratic race
Vogon Racial Traits
+4 Strength, +2 Con, -4 Wis,-4 Dex, -6 Cha. Vogons are large, but rather dull. They also have notoriously bad aim and poorly defined senses of self.
Large Size... [Yada, yada, blah blah]
Racial Hit Dice. Vogons have 3d8 hit dice...
Vogons gain Vogon Poetry as a bonus feat, they need not meet the prerequisites. Vogons are by nature the writers of the third-worst poetry in the universe.
Mind for Rules: Vogons gain a +4 on any Enterprise checks. Vogons are intimately familiar with the workings of any ruleset.
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7 8 9 a b c
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16 17 18 19 1a 1b
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3a 3b 3c 40 41 42
Let's all hear it for base 13 folks
This attaches a third arm just below either of a humanoid's other arms. In addition to all the natural effects of having a third arm, this arm grants a +8 competence bonus on any checks while ski-boxing.
Item: Ju-Janta Superchromatic Peril-Sensetive Sunglasses
These black glasses grant immunity to fear. Any time you would be targeted with a fear effect the glasses turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you. While the glasses are black you are treated as if you were blind.
Item: The Infinite Improbability Drive
When activated the ship and everyone and everything in it are instantly transported to anywhere in the universe they want to go via passing though every point in the universe. During this, the GM rolls on the insanity table (not the one in the book for the insanity spell, his own insanity table as any GM that plays with this system is severely lacking in sanity points anyway) and selects a reasonably vindictive effect to happen.
Item: Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster
When this potion is drunk you take 3d10 points of temporary intelligence damage, 3d10 points of temporary wisdom damage, and 3d10 points of temporary charisma damage. When you come to you must make a will save or feel like your brain has been smashed out with a slice of lemon...wrapped around a large gold brick.
Race: Elevator
Gargantuan Construct
HD: 12d12
Abilities: Str 35 Dex 6 Con - Int 14 Wis 18 Cha 14
Dim Future Sight: An elevator can see dimly into the future so that it always knows what floor to be on to pick you up before you knew you needed it. As such it is constantly under the effect of a Forsight spell.
Neurotic: Elevators are quite upset that they are left out of the decision making processes of their buildings and they can't do anything about it. As such, at any time other than when it is carrying people up and down, it is to be found sulking in the basement.
But Vogon poetry should count as a combat skill! :D
Oh great, there would still be a bard in this game too? ;)
Hm...what about the use of the Ultimate Viewpoint Gun as a weapon? Who can forget Marvin using it on the Vogons in the movie?
Until I read this, I had.
I've tried to forget the movie.
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Prepared for Anything
You are proficient with a towel. You always have a towel with you.
Benefit: You are able to use a towel for any of the following:
1. Keep your head warm while traveling the moons of Jaglan Beta.
2. Lie on the beautiful beaches of Santraginus V.
3. Sleep in the deserts of Kakrafoon.
4. Create a sail and ride a mini-raft on the rivers of Moth.
5. Use it in unarmed combat.
6. Protect yourself from the awful fumes of a Bugblatter Beast.
7. Wave the towel as a distress signal.
8. Dry yourself off.
this was part of apirl's fool day but i think it could really work for this setting
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Prepared for Anything
You are proficient with a towel. You always have a towel with you.
Benefit: You are able to use a towel for any of the following:
1. Keep your head warm while traveling the moons of Jaglan Beta.
2. Lie on the beautiful beaches of Santraginus V.
3. Sleep in the deserts of Kakrafoon.
4. Create a sail and ride a mini-raft on the rivers of Moth.
5. Use it in unarmed combat.
6. Protect yourself from the awful fumes of a Bugblatter Beast.
7. Wave the towel as a distress signal.
8. Dry yourself off.
Work for this setting? It was directly taken from this setting.
Seriously, I think that for h2g2, you don't have to do too much shoehorning. Take the d20 modern base rules, start at level one. Allow all the alien races from the Star Wars Alien Anthology, plus every playable race from D&D. In the case of the latter, give them new names and/or cultures. Require each character to take one flaw at creation, unless the player rolled very poorly on his stats.
Then turn off the sanity filter.
Allow players to make their own oddball skills, such as See Someone Else's Problem, Profession (Sandwich Maker), and Imbibe. Cap all combat XP gains at a few hundred per encounter - most experience gain should be ad hoc GM awards for cleverness.
You want a mission? Okay, how about this: You just discovered that your planet was saved from destruction by dolphins (dolphins!), nearly erased from all probability thanks to a jerk of a hitchhiker (complete kneebiter, really), and now is a popular tourist destination for aliens thanks to an article in something called the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. You know all that because you found a copy of the Guide in your local pub. Now, you don't really care about that, because you're about to get evicted from your apartment. But there's that nice, odd fellow down at the pub, the guy you play darts with every week while you jeer at the tube during Arsenal games, and he's promised to pay it for you if you do one job for him...
Work for this setting? It was directly taken from this setting.
Then it would work now wouldn't it :P
I think they would already have literacy given how they write poetry and are a bearicratic race
"They can't think, can't immagine, most of them can't even spell. They just... run things."
"They can't think, can't immagine, most of them can't even spell. They just... run things."
I have literacy and cna't spell....and oyu don't need to imagine to have literacy