Interesting! Perhaps because I read this just before bed last night, I also had a dream about it. In my case, the genetic information appeared in the form of a RPG character sheet, describing the mysterious dog that rustic natives had been warning us about. I can't remember the creature's name, but it was some hybrid name such as "The Grey Dalmuki," or some such. You had to roll a d20 to decide if it was chaotic good, otherwise it attacked you. It was classed as "swift," meaning that it always won initiative rolls and got two attacks in on you before you could defend yourself. Our party decided it was a bit scary, and went the other way. :-)
I'm assuming this was a party that didn't include Bethran, since all members wisely agreed to do the sensible thing and avoid the monster...
Chaotic is DEFINITELY Brythen, but I would argue he is more than 6% good! Pp is clearly still nursing a grudge from the days when Big Puppy Brythen would get out all Pp's plastic monster figures from their box and play strange chaotic games all on his own in the games room with them.
I also assume it was a party without a GM who had spent hours lovingly painting a Brythen miniature, otherwise our attempts to avoid him would have been in vain, and we'd have stumbled over him 3 days later on a different continent.
I can't remember clearly, but I think the Brythen Monster was chaotic good when you rolled a 1, in which case he tried so very hard to help you, but it sometimes went very wrong. All other rolls made him chaotic neutral, but he would attack you due to being confused. I don't think he was ever evil, but his effect was not always good. :-D
I wish this stuff had been around when my childhood dog Max was still with us - we mostly settled on him being part collie and part spaniel and part who knows what but he was a very handsome chap who people always assumed was a pedigree something.
It is! I went to an afternoon symposium at work the other week and sat through a bunch of talks on cutting edge life sciences, thinking none of this was discovered when I was an undergrad and last studied genetics.
One of these days I'll actually get around to scanning a photo of him and posting it - he was a very handsome dog indeed :)
Dalmation!!! Nope. I would never have guessed that...
Though that may be where he gets the strength to pull you over - I've been hit by a running Dalmation in the past and they appear to be made of solid india rubber.
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Chaotic is DEFINITELY Brythen, but I would argue he is more than 6% good! Pp is clearly still nursing a grudge from the days when Big Puppy Brythen would get out all Pp's plastic monster figures from their box and play strange chaotic games all on his own in the games room with them.
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I can't remember clearly, but I think the Brythen Monster was chaotic good when you rolled a 1, in which case he tried so very hard to help you, but it sometimes went very wrong. All other rolls made him chaotic neutral, but he would attack you due to being confused. I don't think he was ever evil, but his effect was not always good. :-D
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I wish this stuff had been around when my childhood dog Max was still with us - we mostly settled on him being part collie and part spaniel and part who knows what but he was a very handsome chap who people always assumed was a pedigree something.
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Max sounds delightful, I do like a nice crossbreed.
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One of these days I'll actually get around to scanning a photo of him and posting it - he was a very handsome dog indeed :)
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Though that may be where he gets the strength to pull you over - I've been hit by a running Dalmation in the past and they appear to be made of solid india rubber.
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Dalmatians seem to be quite ridiculously boingy and solid dogs, or at least the ones I meet are.
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