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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shallown" data-source="post: 2166845" data-attributes="member: 1368">I had a tank once in my last campaign.The party was visiting the dwarven main city, this being their second visit. We had two dwarf characters from different clans one an armor/weapon clan the other the only mage/wizard clan in the city. While all the characters were visiting the wizard clan (the party had split up enjoying hospitality at one of the two clans) an alarm sounded in the city with the ringing of a bell. I described the city jumping into action and such and as the characters were deciding what to do I had the inspiration of one of the character's mothers arrivingin a tank, not sure why but it seemed to fit. The mother belonged to the weapons/armor clan BTW. So up rolled the steam powered tank and the hatch opens with mom poking her head out and asking who wanted a ride. As the characters stood in shock they she shouted out to the wizard clanmembers where the alarm was triggered and she was on her way there. She did this in a way that let the players know what was happening since they were not all dwarves normally t hey would have been sealed in a clan house for their own protection but she was opening it up for them to go along. The side door of the tank opened and they saw it was more of a troop carrier with an animated balista on top in a turrent. The characters of course jumped in.Now that inspiration had struck I realized I didn't want anything as powerful as that available in the campaign  seeing the problems it could cause. so as they road toward the tunnel that had been breached I started to describe the Dwarves almost frantic actions working on the steam engine and the insides of the tank getting very hot very quick. As the tank rolled up to the tunnel mouth it pulled into formation with another tank. I described as the characters got out the fact the rear of the tank starting to glow cherry red and teams fo dwarves starting to use water hoses and buckets to cool the tank sending up clouds of steam. It allowed me to say the tanks were not quite perfected and only good for short range work. Balanced them out and made them more realsitic within the game without taking away that initial reaction of how cool it was that Mom had a tank.Later</blockquote>

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