500 Dinosaurs Attack! Help!

[shilsen]

Who says the tribes have to be working together? Maybe the approaching group(s) are actually heading to their sacred battle site to have the triennial Knock-down Drag-out Dinosaur Battle (TM) during which tribal superiority for the next three years is decided. Unfortunately, X marks the spot where the PCs and their caravan are right now.

The only thing more fun than being in a battle against an army of dinosaurs is being in a battle against three armies of dinosaurs, all of whom are fighting each other and you at the same time

 

[alsih2o]

Maybe they are coming to fight one another...and the PC caravan is just in the way?

Pick a side or scram?

 

[rvalle]

Maybe they are coming to fight one another...and the PC caravan is just in the way?

Pick a side or scram?

Or, they are ALL coming to attack the caravan but don't want the other side to get it either. Basicly a 4 way battle with 3 tribes fighting each other and the pc's.

I sure would't want to have to run it though!

In the pc's favor... they tribes might hate each other more then the pc's and REALLY don't want to let another tribe get bragging rights by getting the caravan.

rv

 

[barsoomcore]

Okay, game rolls tonight.

Thanks everyone for all the awesome suggestions. Really got my brain working.

So here's the scoop. The king of the Wind nation, Huitzilpochtli, has been receiving guidance in his dreams telling him to send She Who Seeks The Lost Child into the Hidden Storm of Flame and to take what she finds to the Sun Disk in Tehuatcan. The problem is that the Hidden Storm of Flame is a taboo site to the Wind, and She Who Seeks The Lost Child is a barbarian, and for the Wind to accept assistance from a barbarian would be a very great pollution, especially if they're sending her into a taboo site.

He knows that She is in this caravan, so he's brought his entire nation here to take her. His plan is to have one of the barbarians (remember, to him, the PCs are barbarians) fight his great champion. If they win, the nation will accept their assistance because obviously anyone who can defeat the champion of the Wind is blessed by the gods. If they lose, they'll be his slaves and he can have them do whatever he likes.

She Who Seeks The Lost Child refers to one of the PCs, who received a vision of her deceased daughter asking her to journey into the underworld to retrieve an artifact. The Hidden Storm of Flame is a recent meteorite impact -- Barsoom is being bombarded with meteorites suddenly, big ones that are destroying whole chunks of the world. What our heroes don't yet know (but kind of suspect) is that these meteorites are actually sorcerous artifacts that will call back the old, banished gods of Barsoom.

Which would be, in Igon's words, "Bad."

So the challenge against the Wind champion will be a pole fight. Not a fight with poles, but a fight ON poles. The chosen champion from each side will have to balance on the top of a 40' high pole and fight without falling. The rest of the group hold the pole upright, so they can try and help out with Str checks (though they run the risk of overcompensating).

Oh, and the Wind champion is a blade dancer (OA) with like a +43 Balance check.



So the PLAN is, fight the champion, jaw things over with Huitilpochtli, head into the Hidden Storm of Flame and confront the secret of the old gods' meteorite. My PCs of course are notoriously good at defeating my efforts at planning, so we'll see what happens.

Thanks again, everyone. I think we're gonna have fun.

 

[Cor Azer]

So the challenge against the Wind champion will be a pole fight. Not a fight with poles, but a fight ON poles. The chosen champion from each side will have to balance on the top of a 40' high pole and fight without falling. The rest of the group hold the pole upright, so they can try and help out with Str checks (though they run the risk of overcompensating).

Yoink!

 

[Wolf72]

Or, they are ALL coming to attack the caravan but don't want the other side to get it either. Basicly a 4 way battle with 3 tribes fighting each other and the pc's.

I sure would't want to have to run it though!

In the pc's favor... they tribes might hate each other more then the pc's and REALLY don't want to let another tribe get bragging rights by getting the caravan.

rv

Wait!!! what about the Giant Eagles ... it will be a battle of Five armies!!

 

[BSF]

Barsoomcore, sounds like an awesome setup. I hope you all have fun.

 

[Desdichado]

DAMN YOU. GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL.

You better quit talking about your game unless you're going to update your story hour.

 

[barsoomcore]

Testy.

 

[Orius]

I'll go for snarky:

The T-rexes will eat well tonight.



Ok, I know I'm posting late, but I felt it had to be said...