Fear Factor, revisited

[olegrand]

Hello everybody. I've finally taken time to write down the alternate Fear rules I've been using in my DWAITAS campaign:

dwaitas.blogspot.fr/2012/10/fear-factor-revisited.html

Comments welcome !

[Escher]

As shown by these examples, the Fear Factor of some creatures should simply be revised, taking into account their inherent scaring power, as well as what we might call their relative frightfulness (compared to other frightening creatures).

I’m guessing that different creatures are assigned to different writers and this causes problems of consistency.
I think Aliens & Creatures has some major omissions in the writeups and some were not as well-researched as they could have been, so in my opinion I would take those Fear Factor ratings not too seriously until we have future releases.

Also, I’ll just mention that If you check out the Beast, he is missing two important abilities. He should have the Environmental Trait (when he possessed Toby, he was openly standing on the surface of the rock in outer space) and also Telekinesis (he cracked the window). These should be apparent to anyone who has watched that particular episode.

[olegrand]

Oct 8, 2012 9:26:57 GMT Escher said:

I’m guessing that different creatures are assigned to different writers and this causes problems of consistency.

My guess too.

Oct 8, 2012 9:26:57 GMT Escher said:

I think Aliens & Creatures has some major omissions in the writeups and some were not as well-researched as they could have been, so in my opinion I would take those Fear Factor ratings not too seriously until we have future releases.

Hopefully - but as far as I'm concerned, I don't want to "wait for future releases" to be able to play - which is why I devised these alternate house rules (plus I LOVE to tinker with game systems ;D)