C3G Dredd'verse workshop

[Tornado]

Thinking maybe this.

Originally Posted by Tornado

NAME = GOREHEAD

SPECIES = DINOSAUR
UNIQUENESS = UNIQUE
CLASS = DEVOURER
PERSONALITY = VENGEFUL

SIZE/HEIGHT = HUGE 12

LIFE = 9

MOVE = 6
RANGE = 1
ATTACK = 6
DEFENSE = 3

POINTS = ???

HUMAN HATRED
You may add 1 to Gorehead's Move and Attack numbers if he ends his movement adjacent to an enemy Human figure.

PREHISTORIC DISPLACEMENT
If all your order markers are on the cards of Dinosaur figures you control, once per round, after revealing an order marker and taking a turn with a Dinosaur you control, you may place that revealed order marker on this card as unrevealed. Order markers cannot be placed or removed from this card by any other special power on any card.

TEMPORAL DEFENSE
Once per round, if Gorehead or any friendly figure within 3 spaces of Gorehead is attacked by an opponent's figure that does not have the Temporal Defense special power, and at least 1 skull is rolled, you may reveal and remove any numbered Order Marker on this card. After removing the numbered Order Marker, the opponent's turn immediately ends and the attacked figure receives no wounds.



Bio: Gorehead is a character from the 2000ad strip Flesh, which features the ethically dubious activities of the Trans-Time Corporation. He was a tyrannosaur who helped other tyrannosaurs assault Trans-Time Base 3, an outpost in the Cretaceous era using time travel technology to transport dinosaur flesh to the 23rd century. Gorehead was hiding inside the body of a dead alamosaur when the base's time reactor exploded. The explosion imprinted the blood of the alamosaur on the tyrannosaur's head, hence his name. It also gave him the ability to travel in time. Gorehead went on to attack a Trans-Time employee called Boots McGurk, who branded his head three times with the symbol of Trans-Time Base 6. This left Gorehead with the number 666 seared on his forehead, convincing the Christian extremist Pastor Sunday that Gorehead was the beast of the apocalypse featured in the Bible's Book of Revelation.

[Ronin]

Based on the placement of the lines, those are clearly three upside-down 9s!

Getting a free OM for TD is pretty strong - the "all OMs on Dinos" restriction might help, but I've seen some Dino armies do pretty well already.

[IAmBatman]

Prehistoric Displacement is a cool power! But, yeah, definitely valuable since dinos are near the top of the meta now.

[Tornado]

For sure. That is easily dropped if it is too strong.
In England they put the line on top maybe?

[IAmBatman]

I mean, I think it's the thing that makes the card most interesting. Just has to be priced appropriately and it should be cool to include, IMO.

[Tornado]

Yeah, would rather see it on there and tweak the other stuff as needed to keep it reasonable.
He will not have any kind of bonding but passive movement and defense will be valuable to the faction.

[Ronin]

Yeah, I like that aspect of the design where he gets the OM. Personally I'd just try to make the process of getting him the extra OM feel a little more dynamic. Him moving up for free with OOE and then getting the OM automatically makes him a pretty effective passive operator.

[IAmBatman]

Though theoretically he'd be fairly active once per round if you're not burning that OM for Temporal Defense.

[Ronin]

If you're not burning the OM for TD, it's not doing anything, no? If he's got a spare 1 on his card and it's your turn to reveal your 2, then the 1 is just gonna sit there until you use TD, I'd think.

[IAmBatman]

My impression would be that if you use you reveal your OM, use it, and then place it back unrevealed, you could then reveal it right away for another turn. But that could be my reading in mechanics that aren't there.

[Lord Pyre]

Yeah don’t think you can use 2 OMs in a single turn without a power specifying it.

[IAmBatman]

Fair enough. I thought it was going for breaking that boundary. It'd be more fun if it did, IMO.