So I came to a general astounding realization the other day that my characters seem to have some sort of inherent bonus for escaping T-rex's death-dealing jaws no matter the system, so long as the character is of some skill; let me explain as there is a bit of a story to each encounter.
A LONG time ago when I was playing the ttRPG Heros Unlimited I first played a lycanthrope. Those who know the system know that they these creatures are VERY powerful and suitable for heroes as they are invulnerable to EVERYTHING except Magic, Silver, and Psionic attacks. There was all sort of "I gotcha" moments between me and my two GMs where I would note this fact and get by some obstacle or what-not. I got tired of this character as he died, and often in this game, as OTHER PCs frequently had magic weapons and accidents happened.
So I decide to go the other route and make an entirely tech Power-Suite character. The character had a bit of depth though, however it was generally a stealthy type skilled type. Well one day my GM came around and decided to have a fun moment and have us run into the bar of the gods. He had us take a drinking challenge were we drank this bear and had to roll off to keep from falling over drunk and unconscious. My character being entirely tech and becoming VERY aware of the mystical and magic was constantly looking for ways to deal with these beings. I saw demons and dragons falling over in drunken stupor. Obvious light bulb went off and I filled my injectors in my suit with the stuff. Well you think that this would be a rather obvious use considering the tittle of this article but there is a tad more to it.
Having been thwarted by my previous character's one key ability one too many times and now playing a tech character revenge was their plan! Turnabout you would call it. A few MONTHS (RLT) pass by with this character and I become face to face with a T-Rex, that is a ghost.... I fire off my silver bullets and they do NOTHING. I quickly find myself in the ghost's mouth. With a eye roll and a sigh I say, well I guess I had to use it sometime and tell the GM I am going to inject the ghost, he laughs and says, "with what?" The assistant GM gets wide eyed and says "Oh you still have that beer!" GM1: "Wait what, from my bar?!?!" Some dice are rolled and the T-Rex falls over, undead and unconscious from the magic beer, and I arise victorious. Comments later about how he was just going to have me pooped out by the ghost after a bit of damage to the suit and my ego.
Different game, many years later, I was playing a pathfinder/DnD hybrid game. My character was a ninja (DnD version) and was totally taking advantage of being size small via-magic and doing ranged sneak attacks from invisible moments. I was still being quite skilled as jumping and attacking while invisible to avoid tremor sense and still getting a sneak attack in and using many alchemical flasks (or touch attack sneak attacks), anti-toxins, and tangle foot bags. Continuing to expands my nifty tools I look into the Complete Scoundrel book and get GM approval to buy some non-magical stuff from the book. Well the GM notices that I am about to gain the ability to go ethereal making my character about unstoppable (ki-points willing). He decides to take advantage of my small size one last time while he still can and throws at me, you guessed it, a giant celestial T-rex. I plead in terror "Don't Eat Me!" as the t-rex B lines it to me and gobbles me up. Well, just so happens the I had just bought a little item or two of Gut Mites. I was vomited up rather quickly.
So, it seems that now more often than not when facing the jaws of some monstrous T-Rex I am some-how overly prepared. I just seem to have an innate +10 bonus to escaping them.
-Hexen
Now I think of sending fiendish T-Rex against my party...
T-Rex grappler needed.
He had us take a drinking challenge were we drank this bear and had to roll off to keep from falling over drunk and unconscious....the gods drink BEARS?!
This makes so much sense!! No wonder gods are so powerful.
Ah my dyslexia. What joy it brings people.
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Ah my dyslexia. What joy it brings people.He had us take a drinking challenge were we drank this bear and had to roll off to keep from falling over drunk and unconscious....the gods drink BEARS?!
This makes so much sense!! No wonder gods are so powerful.
You're free to mock my typos relentlessly when you discover them, and there are quite a lot on this forum. Mine aren't nearly as amazing as gods having bear-drinking contests though. :)
"We've run out of alcohol! What shall we do?"
*one deity rummages through Box of Creations and pulls out a bear*
"Let's just make these alcoholic."
Suddenly, all bears are now alcoholic drinks everywhere.
The fighter in our Savage Tide game got swallowed whole twice by once by the encounter T Rex and once by a wandering T Rex... He was lucky in that he had enough hit points to survive until we could cut him out.
That's what I'd want to be a Lycanthrope for.
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I have this one player that if we encounter something that swallows whole, ESPECIALLY a T-Rex, she always gets swallowed. It's like a running gag across campaigns, except that it doesn't ever get intentionally orchestrated. Just falls out that way.
Played a Scion campaign a billion years ago, where my char and couple others was swallowed by Charybdis in a shark tank at the Baltimore National Aquarium.