My attempt at this style, with a bit of odd prose to boot.

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haha! slugshot!

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Update: A warmup for now. Sub producing machinery is rusty these days... Go to Comment

I didn't flesh this out to the degree of my normal posts in light of the quest details with its very short timelines for the various areas.

The arrow slows its target through magic and also as a side effect impedes its own use, basically preventing it from being fired rapid-fire by its user.

I would think they appear as birding arrows with small arrowheads, and minimal fletchings. This would also explain the lighter damage as the wound would be smaller (though probably deeper). I suppose you could apply a to-hit penalty due to the reduced fletching size (and therefore stability), but thats probably unnecessary.
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I took the limits as hard limits on the process, as if you don't, then you really have an open-ended time for the sub. How do you define 'polish'? :)



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I took it as a bit of a challenge to follow the suggestions as literally as possible,for my normal efforts tend to take overlong and so things languish in in work for a long time:)


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An older 'Lore' section I forgot about:

These rather frail appearing arrows were first uncovered from the tomb of the Pharoess N'Tsh'a.  The queen was legendary for her love of the hunt and was courageous and driven. However, she was also a terrible shot, unable to hit most moving targets.  She tended to blame her retainers and more then one found the Queen's marksmanship at close range much better.  To preserve his own life, one of her retainers commissioned these arrows.  

 

Might get me in trouble :)

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I like the overall concept, but I'm having difficulty imagining these things.  How can an arrow impede its own use?  Is it sticky, slippery or otherwise crafted to be hard to handle?  If you could also describe the arrowhead a bit more, it would help.  I'm assuming that these things deal less damage because the arrowhead is not designed to stick into the target (thereby insulting the Emperor), but I could be wrong.

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Ahhh, so the magic of the arrow acts as a retarding effect on whomever is touching it as well. That's a really interesting idea. If the effect also applies to the speed of the arrow's flight, then that could also neatly account for the reduced damage. Either way, this is a really nifty concept.

To address the time limit on this quest: it appeared to me that the limit was only there to aid in the creation process. The general concept, appearance and all that jazz can indeed be done in 3 minutes. However, there didn't seem to be a limit on the time we could take to polish it up for submission (something that Pariah also commented on in the quest thread). Perhaps I was confused in this area?

Glad to see you posting again, btw :)

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Mmmmmm, mostly by taking the bullet points I came up with during the 3 minute exercise and expanding them to full sentences. Make them sound all purty. I don't actually add anything to the core ideas after that point, just clarify or elaborate enough to get the idea across. The lore is a real challenge though! I probably cheat on the time limit a little there . . .

Either way, I don't think there's one right or wrong way to do it. You mentioned the limit as if it were something to impede you, and I only wanted to point out that it didn't have to be if you didn't want it to. Go to Comment

In the immortal words of Heavy Weapons Guy:

"YEAAGGHHHHH CRY SOME MORE!"

 

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Update: Stupid idea. Goombye! Go to Comment

Spider gernadehttp://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/wrbwy/my_wife_killed_a_spider_and_it_exploded_into_an/ Go to Comment

I actually ran an entire campaign of mutants and masterminds through wwii, starting with they participating in d-day on the anniversary of d-day, ending with the players nuking Paris. I highly recommend looking up the "weird" stuff they actually tried during the war, they provide idea seeds that are absolute gold. Bat-bombs are not so hot, but an experimental iceberg carrier, and japan's submarine aircraft carrier are great fun. Don't forget England's rocket wheel bomb or the german gun that could shoot around corners.

Google, it's not just for breakfast anymore. Go to Comment

Whjy are you struggling with this? Go to a movie site. Go look up WWII movies. Get plots. Go to TV sites, look up WWII (and Korean War) TV shows (COMBAT!) and pillage some plots.

The question I really need to ask is why? Why are you doing thiis. Finding what you are looking for in this listing will help you decide on their plots. Go to Comment

Here are some *bones*-I will add flesh to them later, or you can if you want to.

1-Assassinate Hitler before the war begins

2-Escaping Poles, Can they escape from both the Germans and the Soviets?

3-Escaping Jewish people

4-Stop Train to Aushwitz and free the people

5-Assassinate high ranking SS man

6-Kill Traitor

7-Gain infomation

8-Battle of Britian

9-Kidnap high ranking Nazi alive

 

(more seedlings later)

 

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Update: Have totally abandoned this one for the time being. Any suggestions, feel free to add! Go to Comment

I guess I needed more detail on the thought

1. Missions had to preserve the main timeline, so at least #1 would not be used. Otherwise, you would have a lot of work to do to rewrite history. With our modern knowledge it is easy to know key points that could have swung history wildly. At the time, not so much.

Killing Hitler at the wrong time could have in fact led to a more adverse outcome from WWII. Even beforehand he had a cadre of like-minded individuals, who knows what they would have done with the reins of the Reich?

As for scale, missions that a small team could, without magic or huge amounts of ridiculous luck, possibly accomplish. I know my examples above were very simple stubs, I'd want about a paragraph each to make reasonable entries.



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1942, US GI trekking over the Owen Stanley mountains in New Guinea towards the Japanese at Buna, but basically trying to survive the climb. Make it across the mountains and then begin a long, horrible siege.

or...

US submarine patrolling the Japanese home islands, and running aground on, say, occupied Korea or China?

or...

RAF Mosquito pilot raiding a fjord in Norway vs. the Tirpitz, getting shot down and now trying to outrun the Nazis as you race for Sweden.

or...

Part of a British tank crew cut off from the mainbody by Rommell's slash west from the Ardennes in 1940.

or...

Finnish commando team striking deep behind Soviet lines to destroy a Division or Corps command post and help push the Russians to signing a peace treaty.

I could go on and on here... Go to Comment