So I was waiting fup or my daughter to come home last night and found myself watching Escape from LA last night. That reminded me of a thread from Koewn (I think) about the Summon Beserker spell. I decided to make some more summon spells to bring some heros into ACKS:
Summon Epic Hero Range: 10’ Arcane: 3 Duration: I day*
(Summon 1 creature – 65pts - specific creature type (.7) - creature passively hostile (.8) – up to 8 HD(.7) – duration 1 day (1.25)) = 31 (minor breakthrough)
With this spell, the caster summons an epic hero from another plane of existence (a character with 130,000 XP). The summoned epic hero will not attack and is not hostile to the caster, but is not blindly loyal. The caster will have to convince the hero to co-operate by threats, gifts, promises, etc. At the time of casting the caster must give the epic hero an appropriate task to complete (e.g. steal the imperial payroll, defeat a troll, travel into the depths of the underworld to complete a quest, etc.). The epic hero remains until dispelled, the task is completed, or 1 day has passed.
Roll on the chart below to determine who appears
- Fafhrd – Lvl 7 Barbarian
- Grey Mouser – Lvl 8 Thief
- Ash – Lvl 8 Fighter
- Vor Daj (from Barsoom) 1-3 as a hormad 4-6 as a red martian
- Jack Burton – Lvl 8 fighter
- Cugel the Clever – Lvl 8 – lvl 7 custom class (lvl 1 arcane, lvl 3 thief)
- Jason DinAult (from deathworld) – Lvl 8 custom class (Fight 2, 1 hd, 1 thief)
- Gordon Freeman (?)
- PC from another campaign
Other options:
James T. Kirk, Obi-wan Kenobi, Red Sonja, Cerberus the Aardvark, Bilbo Baggins, Ripley, Flash Gordon, Sinbad, Arya Stark, Buffy, Inigo Montoya, Sarah Conner, Sinbad etc.
Summon Legendary Hero Range: 10’ Arcane: 5 Duration: I day*
(Summon 1 creature – 65pts - specific creature type (.7) - creature passively hostile (.8) – up to 14 HD(.8) – duration 1 day (1.25), can only cast 1x week (.8), casting time 1 turn (.8), up to 2 special powers (1.66)) = 48 points
With this spell, the caster summons a legendary hero from another plane of existence (a 13th or 14th level character). The summoned hero will not attack and is not hostile to the caster but is not blindly loyal. The caster will have to convince the hero to co-operate by threats, gifts, promises, etc. At the time of casting the caster must give the epic hero an appropriate task to complete (e.g. steal the imperial payroll, defeat a troll, travel into the depths of the underworld to complete a quest, etc.). The epic hero remains until dispelled, the task is completed, or 1 day has passed.
The hero will be equipped as appropriate for a character of their level.
Roll on the chart below to determine who appears:
- John Carter, Warlord of Barsoom, Lvl 14 fighter
- Slippery James Di Griz, Lvl 14 thief
- John Wick, Lvl 13 Assassin
- Gandalf the Gray, Lvl 13 Wizard
- Snake Pliskin, Lvl 13 fighter or Assassin
- Achilles – Lvl 12 fighter (with magical properties)
- Merlin – Lvl 14 Wizard
- Elric – Lvl 10 Spellsword or Lvl 12 Ruinguard
- Conan – Lvl 13 Barbarian
Some others: Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser (later in life), the Bride (from Kill Bill), Jason Bourne, Darth Vader (reformed), etc.
Any help to populate the list would be grreatly appreciated, especially the legendary heros.