SUPER GIGUNDA - or The Monster is HOW BIG!?

[Holister]

See ya later

[mrloucifer]

ive only done this one on the BTS Earth (per se) and the confrontation took place in the middle of the woods. Something that big and in your face would change the BTS world if discovered by the masses. On the other hand, using the Astral Plane and Dreamstreams (Using Nightbane materials to build it) Ive had all sorts of giant monstrocities.

[mrloucifer]

This last mini-rant of mine reminds me of a scene from Men in Black...

Kay: We do not discharge our weapons in view of the public!
Jay: Man, we ain't got time for this cover-up ********! I don't know whether or not you've forgotten, but there's an Arquillian Battle Cruiser that's about to...
Kay: There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they Do... Not... Know about it!

[Lord Z]

Retro-Atomic Horror, huh? I like it.

One of the unifying themes of atomic horror was the blatant symbolism of the monsters. Godzilla (at least in the original movie) was a symbol of fear of atomic warfare or maybe the atom bomb itself. Godzilla was thus destroyed by super-science, just as he was created. King Kong (a little before atomic horror but a big influence) was a tragic hero, symbolic of nature being conquered and exploited by humans. Thus, Kong was destroyed by human firepower. Maybe your monster represents a fear of the dark, and it can be driven away by waking into it and overcoming the fear (cheesy yeah, but that's off the top of my head).

There is a problem with the giant monster concept, and King Louie nailed it. BtS, especially 2nd edition, has a secrecy standard or the game falls apart. If a huge prairie dog eats Tulsa, you're no longer playing BtS. The adventure would almost have to take place in an isolated alternate world. That could be a hidden valley (Arthur Conan Doyle) or the hollow earth (Jules Verne) or another planet (Howard), but it would be best to leave Earth-reality all together. An Astral Domain or Dream Pool (like Master Loucifer suggested) would be great ways to do it. The pocket realities created by Doppleganger Entities is another way to go. Maybe a Spell of Legend upgrade to Apparition would create both the ginormus critter and the city for it to stomp. The haunted book in the Last Street adventure could do something similar. Artificial realities work by their own rules, so the symbolic solution might make some kind of sense.

[mrloucifer]

The pocket realities created by Doppleganger Entities is another way to go.

Whats a doppleganger entity? Or perhaps the better question is where do I find it?

[Tearstone]

Nightbane, core information. Everybody in normal earth has a doppleganger in the Nightlands. Read up on it some.

[Holister]

Later

[Tearstone]

She fell down the well in Kagome's back yard, and since then has been enamored with Inuyasha ever since.

[Holister]

[mrloucifer]

You may also find the Doppleganger entity in Boxed Nightmares from BtS 1st ediion on page 36.

Oh yeah... that one. I've not read boxed Nightbmares in awhile. Thanx!