Val CHA Cost Roll Notes 60 STR 50 21- Lift 102.4 tons; 12d6 HTH Damage [6] 10 DEX 0 11- OCV: 3/DCV: 3 40 CON 60 17- 20 BODY 20 13- 10 INT 0 11- PER Roll 11- 10 EGO 0 11- ECV: 3 25 PRE 15 14- PRE Attack: 5d6 10 COM 0 11- 12 PD 0 Total: 12 PD (0 rPD) 12 ED 4 Total: 12 ED (0 rED) 2 SPD 10 Phases: 6, 12 20 REC 0 80 END 0 70 STUN 0 Total Characteristics Cost: 149 Movement: Running: 11"/22" Leaping: 6"/12" Swimming: 2"/4" Cost Powers & Skills 20 Heavy: Knockback Resistance -10" 10 Long Legs: Running +5" (11" total), END 1 21 Reach: Stretching 5", Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2); Always Direct (-1/4), No Noncombat Stretching (-1/4), No Velocity Damage (-1/4) Skills 2 KS: History 11- 2 KS: Morality/Philosophy 11- 2 KS: Poetry 11- 2 SS: Mathematics 11- Total Powers & Skill Cost: 59 Total Cost: 208 75+ Disadvantages 10 Physical Limitation: Huge (roughly 18m tall; -6 DCV, +6 PER Rolls to perceive) (Frequently, Slightly Impairing) 5 Physical Limitation: Reduced Leaping; can only leap half as far as STR indicates (Infrequently, Slightly Impairing) 118 Experience Points Total Disadvantage Points: 208
Designer's Notes: Brondingnagians live on an immense peninsula, 6,000 miles long by 3,000 miles wide. Supposedly located in the northern Pacific near California, careful reading of Gulliver’s location before he encounters Brondingnag would have their land cover some of easter Siberia, the Bering Sea, Alaska, and the Yukon. A 30 mile high range of volcanos separates Brondingnag from unknown lands to the northeast. The capital of Brondingnag is Lorbrulgrud.
Brondingnagians are as large as their country, standing 60’ in height, with a stride of 10 yards. The plants, animals, and even the weather is in proportion, with rats the size of a dogs, flies the size of birds, and a monkey sufficiently large enough to pick up Gulliver and carry him off. According to the king of Brondingnag, fossils show the people to have been even larger in the past, and he feels the race isn’t what it once was.
Brondingnagian society is a monarchy, with the government based on the application of reason. The king of Brondingnag doesn’t care much for descriptions of European society, calling them “the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.” Laws in Brondingnag are simple and easy to follow. Civil suits are almost unknown, and murderers are executed publicly.
The typical Brondingnagian is learned in ethics, history, poetry, and mathematics. He is literate, but there are few books (the largest library has only 1,000 volumes). The army uses sword and pike, gunpowder is unknown.
(Brondingnagian created by Jonathan Swift, character sheet created by Michael Surbrook)
Brondingnagian Hero Designer File
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