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<blockquote data-quote="Deathwyrm" data-source="post: 7960653" data-attributes="member: 56957"><p>Fun fact! This game is in fact still going. <em>Who knew?!</em></p><p></p><p><strong>S05E02 </strong></p><p></p><p>The main team went hard to work trying to figure out how to take on Ekossigan, and figured that with all of his fancy titles... odds are there were clues in their wording that would be hints as to what to do. Hours were spent in strategy about how to both save the kids, and agreeing to do a quick strike on Gale to knock her out. The roleplaying was so intense, I felt I didn't have to do anything.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]120836[/ATTACH]</p><p><em>Diagram A: "Okay, now kiss" aka "What a GM is really doing behind the DM screen."</em></p><p></p><p>Back to the action! The plan went well until Ekossigan went full on winter and we had a mind-bending time with 3 dimensional combat. Thankfully my wife's Christmas gift to me was flight tiers.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]120834[/ATTACH]</p><p><em>Diagram B: Flying combat</em></p><p></p><p>Kids were saved, Gale was bludgeoned into submission through gratuitous sneak attack, and Ekossigan was slain. Victory all around! Until they heard a terrible explosion elsewhere in the city.</p><p></p><p>Cut scene to Task Force: Phil</p><p></p><p>The players had a blast acting out their second characters on the trail of crazy radical bombers. </p><p></p><p>I tweaked some of the story slightly here to match player motivations. The player of Mikkel Oren (Docker) had been pushing hard for the entire campaign to have a workers union in direct opposition to Benedict Pemberton's big industry and all their abuses. By this time of the story, it made sense that there was protests and strikes and Governor Stanfield was meeting with both parties to work out some kind of mutual deal. </p><p></p><p>So Zubov's crazy dwarves weren't specifically just a complication to the impending peace summit, but influenced by Pemberton through shady backdoor deals to come to Flint and blow up the union talks even though the Governor was there. Wasn't a major change, but it made the player feel like his efforts were really paying off. </p><p></p><p>After some hard detective work, it all ended with a daring showdown on a runaway subrail train as the players tried to dismantle a cryptex bomb using dwarven runes as the code. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]120839[/ATTACH]</p><p><em>Diagram C: Bombs on a train</em></p><p></p><p>Also, I made a cryptex. Would it have been easier to do it as a skill challenge? Probably. But drunk-me becomes an inspired-me. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]120840[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]120841[/ATTACH]</p><p>Diagrams D and E: By the way, it's not easy to make these. Players loved it though.</p><p></p><p>Ultimately, it was not quite enough and Task Force: Phil met their end. Scene went back to the main characters, who rushed hard to try and dig through the rubble to find the bodies of their fallen friends. Game ended on a bittersweet note. They shook their fists and blamed the Obscurati who surely had to be behind this. Or that damned Benedict Pemberton.</p><p></p><p>Hopefully next update doesn't take so long to get around too. Hope you are all holding up well in these weird times.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deathwyrm, post: 7960653, member: 56957"] Fun fact! This game is in fact still going. [I]Who knew?![/I] [B]S05E02 [/B] The main team went hard to work trying to figure out how to take on Ekossigan, and figured that with all of his fancy titles... odds are there were clues in their wording that would be hints as to what to do. Hours were spent in strategy about how to both save the kids, and agreeing to do a quick strike on Gale to knock her out. The roleplaying was so intense, I felt I didn't have to do anything. [ATTACH type="full"]120836[/ATTACH] [I]Diagram A: "Okay, now kiss" aka "What a GM is really doing behind the DM screen."[/I] Back to the action! The plan went well until Ekossigan went full on winter and we had a mind-bending time with 3 dimensional combat. Thankfully my wife's Christmas gift to me was flight tiers. [ATTACH type="full"]120834[/ATTACH] [I]Diagram B: Flying combat[/I] Kids were saved, Gale was bludgeoned into submission through gratuitous sneak attack, and Ekossigan was slain. Victory all around! Until they heard a terrible explosion elsewhere in the city. Cut scene to Task Force: Phil The players had a blast acting out their second characters on the trail of crazy radical bombers. I tweaked some of the story slightly here to match player motivations. The player of Mikkel Oren (Docker) had been pushing hard for the entire campaign to have a workers union in direct opposition to Benedict Pemberton's big industry and all their abuses. By this time of the story, it made sense that there was protests and strikes and Governor Stanfield was meeting with both parties to work out some kind of mutual deal. So Zubov's crazy dwarves weren't specifically just a complication to the impending peace summit, but influenced by Pemberton through shady backdoor deals to come to Flint and blow up the union talks even though the Governor was there. Wasn't a major change, but it made the player feel like his efforts were really paying off. After some hard detective work, it all ended with a daring showdown on a runaway subrail train as the players tried to dismantle a cryptex bomb using dwarven runes as the code. [ATTACH type="full" width="411px"]120839[/ATTACH] [I]Diagram C: Bombs on a train[/I] Also, I made a cryptex. Would it have been easier to do it as a skill challenge? Probably. But drunk-me becomes an inspired-me. [ATTACH type="full" width="333px"]120840[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full" width="247px"]120841[/ATTACH] Diagrams D and E: By the way, it's not easy to make these. Players loved it though. Ultimately, it was not quite enough and Task Force: Phil met their end. Scene went back to the main characters, who rushed hard to try and dig through the rubble to find the bodies of their fallen friends. Game ended on a bittersweet note. They shook their fists and blamed the Obscurati who surely had to be behind this. Or that damned Benedict Pemberton. Hopefully next update doesn't take so long to get around too. Hope you are all holding up well in these weird times. [/QUOTE]
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