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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Delemental" data-source="post: 250976" data-attributes="member: 5203">Just thought I'd give everyone an update.I ran the adventure I talked about in this thread last Sunday, and it went very well.  I'd like to thank everyone for their advice, I really think it helped pull the adventure together.For those who wonder, I ended up not having a single combat encounter.  I had a few crazed robots written up just in case, as well as malfunctioning security systems, but I never used them.  The characters were so creeped out by the ship that I decided throwing "monsters" at them would only take away from the mood.I have to give compliments to my players.  They got into the mood quickly.  They interacted with the visions (one player had his character empty his shotgun into the wall when he had a vision of a crazed robot tearing apart passengers).  When they reached the bridge, and saw the captain's dead body in his chair (this was the only body on board the whole ship), their reactions were priceless - they were convinced it was going to jump up and attack them.  Even my combat-monkey got into the mood, and didn't seem to mind the lack of encounters (especially later in the adventure, as the story unfolded; he's a soulmech himself, so there was an instant connection with the ship's plight).I ended up saving the Wisdom damage for the end, when they finally found the vault containing the pilot's soul.  It was used as an obstacle; waves of raw emotion beating against them as they raced to disconnect the system (just destroying it would have been bad, and the mechanist character has a low Wisdom to begin with, so it added a sense of urgency - she ended the scene with a Wisdom of 4).I received several positive comments for the adventure, both directly and indirectly.  We played a full hour and a half past our normal stopping time, so I must have kept them interested.  And the next day I heard that my players were talking about the game to people not involved, which to me is the best praise (it's one thing when players tell a GM they had fun, it's another when they tell a third party they had fun).  One player commented that she'd felt the tension of a night of combat, without the tedium of dice rolls.Thanks to everyone again.  Now I'll have a few weeks off (we rotate games), so I was glad to end on a high note.</blockquote>

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