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<blockquote data-quote="Worldres" data-source="post: 8203697" data-attributes="member: 7029564"><p><strong>Adventure -1, Bonds of Forced Faith: ""Huh, that’s kind of weird," Thinks fruit fly diving into dish of honey containing corpses of 15 other fruit flies."</strong></p><p></p><p>I assigned characters based on what I thought fit each player. I wanted every character to be used, so I brought in two guest players who had never played a tabletop game before. The game was not to exceed two three-hour sessions. I ratcheted down the difficulty and used it as a brief introduction to the world and to combat. We did both fights at Parity Lake, and the fight on the mountain top (vs The Contessa and Sister Pernicity). I allowed the witches to be vulnerable to fire magic.</p><p></p><p>My players decided <em>right out the gate</em> that Roland and The Red Contessa were ex-lovers. This started out as a joke on Roland’s player’s part, but the party instantly bought into it and took it as fact. Can Devas reproduce? Well, they can now! </p><p></p><p>So, that’s how Reed McBannin ended up being Roland Stanfield’s illegitimate grandson. Whoops!!!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]133074[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>My players love them and are mad at me that I didn’t allow them to have more than one descendant.</p><p></p><p>Amielle’s player, I knew, was one of the best actors. I told her to play as though she were playing a more congenial Shadow Weaver from 2018 She-Ra and BOY did she nail it. Highlights include two flawlessly executed monologues, and setting herself ablaze with her remaining firegem cartridges to burn both herself and the Contessa alive. Amielle survived due to her fire resistance, though barely. Roland freaked out appropriately when he realized what Amielle was doing, but failed to stop her.</p><p></p><p>I wanted Harkover’s player to be able to stop the crowning of Melissa Galdot in an emergency that didn’t necessarily involve killing her, so I made up a rule in the Rights of Rulership that the crown is transferred once the successor is declared AND the crown is placed upon their head. The Nobles can still veto this choice with a supermajority; the Lords of Risur still meet to discuss whether the office of the King should be revoked from a hastily-chosen successor. I intend to exploit the <em>heck </em>out of this in Adventure 9.</p><p></p><p>This gambit paid off – I told Lorcan’s player of this rule, but she forgot it in the heat of the moment before Lorcan died. Lorcan declared Melissa his successor and immediately died, but when all Risuri fell prone, Harkover used the opportunity to steal the crown and withheld it from Melissa. This sparked a philosophical debate about who deserves to rule that was an <em>amazing </em>and thematically appropriate ending to the game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Worldres, post: 8203697, member: 7029564"] [B]Adventure -1, Bonds of Forced Faith: ""Huh, that’s kind of weird," Thinks fruit fly diving into dish of honey containing corpses of 15 other fruit flies."[/B] I assigned characters based on what I thought fit each player. I wanted every character to be used, so I brought in two guest players who had never played a tabletop game before. The game was not to exceed two three-hour sessions. I ratcheted down the difficulty and used it as a brief introduction to the world and to combat. We did both fights at Parity Lake, and the fight on the mountain top (vs The Contessa and Sister Pernicity). I allowed the witches to be vulnerable to fire magic. My players decided [I]right out the gate[/I] that Roland and The Red Contessa were ex-lovers. This started out as a joke on Roland’s player’s part, but the party instantly bought into it and took it as fact. Can Devas reproduce? Well, they can now! So, that’s how Reed McBannin ended up being Roland Stanfield’s illegitimate grandson. Whoops!!! [ATTACH type="full"]133074[/ATTACH] My players love them and are mad at me that I didn’t allow them to have more than one descendant. Amielle’s player, I knew, was one of the best actors. I told her to play as though she were playing a more congenial Shadow Weaver from 2018 She-Ra and BOY did she nail it. Highlights include two flawlessly executed monologues, and setting herself ablaze with her remaining firegem cartridges to burn both herself and the Contessa alive. Amielle survived due to her fire resistance, though barely. Roland freaked out appropriately when he realized what Amielle was doing, but failed to stop her. I wanted Harkover’s player to be able to stop the crowning of Melissa Galdot in an emergency that didn’t necessarily involve killing her, so I made up a rule in the Rights of Rulership that the crown is transferred once the successor is declared AND the crown is placed upon their head. The Nobles can still veto this choice with a supermajority; the Lords of Risur still meet to discuss whether the office of the King should be revoked from a hastily-chosen successor. I intend to exploit the [I]heck [/I]out of this in Adventure 9. This gambit paid off – I told Lorcan’s player of this rule, but she forgot it in the heat of the moment before Lorcan died. Lorcan declared Melissa his successor and immediately died, but when all Risuri fell prone, Harkover used the opportunity to steal the crown and withheld it from Melissa. This sparked a philosophical debate about who deserves to rule that was an [I]amazing [/I]and thematically appropriate ending to the game. [/QUOTE]
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