Goonhub
11-28-2013, 09:48 AM
OK I'm very sorry to interrupt but what is the point in an antagonist role that is as blatantly obvious as a wizard yet as unarmed and killable as a naked handcuffed syndicate? He'll just be brutally murdered constantly as people search for anyone in orange jumpsuits, crashed pods or simply warp to the diner and beat him to death with their fists.
Without gear he's just an uninteresting, unprepared and super obvious traitor.
If he's to be interesting at all, he needs some sort of advantage. He can't just spawn fuckoff-far-away in space naked and be expected to be enjoyable!
If he gets no equipment he has to get some sort of shifty, super-sweet advantage; his prison lyfe has given him a stronger melee hit, a nigh-unflinchable resistance to stuns and disarms, but the disadvantage that his implanted Prison Dude beacon removes his ability to use electronic weapons.
Pros:
- great with a knife or other melee weapon
- shifty and quick and unflinching
Cons:
- obvious and very under-equipped at the start
- unable to use lasers, tasers, eguns or phasers
Turns from a game of beat-the-dude-in-orange-to-death to a shifty, stabby bastard hiding in maintenance with a knack for the one thing other antaganist roles do not have: unarmed combat!
And if he's in prison at the end of the round, no matter what his objectives were, he loses.
If we were to expand on this, you could pick a few variants of shit you want to have; could be shifty-stabby dude as above, or you could be a magician with hacking; all wires show what they do without needing to test them, your PDA can wirelessly open, close and bolt doors with a click from it in your hand, and you start with a Robotic Speech implant maybe? idk just ideas
Without gear he's just an uninteresting, unprepared and super obvious traitor.
If he's to be interesting at all, he needs some sort of advantage. He can't just spawn fuckoff-far-away in space naked and be expected to be enjoyable!
If he gets no equipment he has to get some sort of shifty, super-sweet advantage; his prison lyfe has given him a stronger melee hit, a nigh-unflinchable resistance to stuns and disarms, but the disadvantage that his implanted Prison Dude beacon removes his ability to use electronic weapons.
Pros:
- great with a knife or other melee weapon
- shifty and quick and unflinching
Cons:
- obvious and very under-equipped at the start
- unable to use lasers, tasers, eguns or phasers
Turns from a game of beat-the-dude-in-orange-to-death to a shifty, stabby bastard hiding in maintenance with a knack for the one thing other antaganist roles do not have: unarmed combat!
And if he's in prison at the end of the round, no matter what his objectives were, he loses.
If we were to expand on this, you could pick a few variants of shit you want to have; could be shifty-stabby dude as above, or you could be a magician with hacking; all wires show what they do without needing to test them, your PDA can wirelessly open, close and bolt doors with a click from it in your hand, and you start with a Robotic Speech implant maybe? idk just ideas