Rankin/Bass characters as Alliance characters/monsters

jpariury

Duke
The purpose of this thread to have some fun during the holiday season. Any attempts at too-much-seriousness and scroogery should be dealt with harshly by the Paladins, imo.

Pick some of your favorite Rankin/Bass characters (Frosty the Snowman, King Moonracer, Hermy the Dentist Elf, etc.) and come up with a set of character or monster stats that you feel best fit what we see in the stop-animations.

Don't feel bound by the holiday specials, either! Show us your Willy McBean or Smokey the Bear if you like!
 
JP, I love to say this, but Adam doesn't hate to say that.
 
Heat Miser
Type: Elemental
Body: 250 Natural Armor: 100
Strength: 8
1h: 20 Shatter (Starts to melt in my clutch...), 20 Flame
Claws only
Standard elemental immunities
Healed by Flame
Double damage from Ice
Immune to Banish (Mother Nature's his mother, native to the primary plane)
5 Elemental Flame at will
5x 20 Elemental Flame
2x 50 Elemental Flame
5x Parry
3x Riposte
2x Eviscerate
3x Ice Guard
Acidic Skin (Note: should be described IG as objects melting from heat)
Innate 4-Column (Celestial): must take Flame Bolt, Dragon's Breath and Elemental Blast
Special: Only appears during unseasonably warm weather
Special: Commands all warm weather everywhere
Description: A squat, troll-like figure with flame for hair, elf-like red ears and a bulbous red nose

Snow Miser
Type: Elemental
Body: 250 Natural Armor: 100
Strength: 8
1h: 10 Stun Limb (Turns to snow in my clutch...), 10 Ice
Claws only
Standard elemental immunities
Healed by Ice
Double damage from Flame
Immune to Banish
5 Elemental Ice at will
10x 20 Elemental Ice
5x 50 Elemental Ice
5x Phase
5x Flame Guard
3x Cloak Flame
2x Bane Eldritch Force
Acidic Skin (Note: should be described IG as objects becoming brittle from cold and shattering)
Innate 6-Column (Celestial): must take Ice Bolt, Ice Storm and Elemental Blast
6-Column Earth (Unlike Heat Miser, Snow Miser is generally a more helpful/benevolent figure who can restore objects he destroys)
Special: Only appears while snowing
Special: Commands all cold weather everywhere
Description: A tall, troll-like figure with solid ice for hair and a long, pointed nose with icicles hanging from it

Note: Both Misers must break into a rinky-dink, jaunty little song when asked to identify or describe themselves.
 
OK.
So, many types of humanoid greater undead are signified by red glowing eyes. Because Rudolph is depicted as having one of his primary sensory organs, the nose, be red and glowing with an unnatural light, the Rudolph story is clearly an allegory about how undead and extraplanar creatures are oppressed by modern adventuring society.

The narrator, being a snowman, is obviously an elemental from the Plane of Water. He describes how Rudolph the Deer-Lich is shunned by the living and forced to flee. However, he is later accepted by the society that cast him out when he joins forces with the living to defeat another powerful Ice Elemental, the Bumble.

This is essentially the tragic story of how an outcast individual becomes part of the in-group by becoming complicit in the oppression of a distinct out-group from his own. Rather than using his newfound influence in the living community of Fortannis to improve conditions for his extraplanar brethren, he instead chooses to elevate the status of undead by helping the living to destroy the Ice Elemental's way of life (in order to make him acceptable to the living, Rudolph allows the Bumble to have his teeth, his primary means of self-defense and of gathering food, removed by the evil dentist character). We can only assume that after the film ends, the Elemental slowly starves to death in his cave.

The narrator then goes on to show the indoctrination of the Deer-Lich, who presumably is forced to get Reverse Life Force cast on him so that he doesn't need to be healed with Chaos. It is important to note that the narrator does not interact with the other characters in the story, instead being obligated to take the role of a passive observer in order to avoid sharing the fate of his fellow Ice Elemental, the Bumble.

Yukon Cornelius the war profiteer represents the role of adventurers, who stumble into complex political situations and lend their military assistance to the highest bidder without too closely examining the societal and ethical implications of their actions.

Edit: Oh right, stats. Stats are... Um, campaign-specific. ;)
 
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(There is also a subplot about how the group's healers, here represented by the female characters, try to get on the front line but get captured because healers are supposed to STAY IN THE BACK that's like adventuring 101 you're going to waste all my potions GAH)
 
Yukon Cornelius
Dwarf Fighter
lvl 5 = 55bp

OHE 5
Florentine 4
2 Wep 2
Thrown 2
W. Prof x2 30
Resist Elx4 12

M.I.: Knitted cap 2x/day Repel Perm

I dunno if that was what you were getting at.
 
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