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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edward Kann@StoryART" data-source="post: 1797787" data-attributes="member: 23128">Oh.  Here's another good one.Combining favorite computer games with RPG games.I ran a long Legend of the Five Rings campaign a few years back.  The game was fairly scaled in that all five of the player characters were brothers and sisters of one of three feuding minor noble families.  The families were fighting one another for control over a chain of mountain valleys and passes and castles.Anyway.  I was a big fan of the game Shogun Total War (and still am).  As part of the game I played the generals of the two opposition families.  Legend of the Five Rings had this great battle system where you would determine how much glory your character earned by their actions in battle and where they stood in the battle..in front, leading an attack, or back in the rear with the gear.We hooked two computers together, determined which units each player was commanding in their home army and they would march out to fight all of our mass battles using Shogun Total War.  I used an egg timer to pause the combat every minute or so (Total War combats only go for about 20 minutes) and we would roll on the Legend of the Five Rings battle charts to see how the player characters were doing..fight any duels or specific small actions called for our in miniature scale and keep going.We had ambushes, betrayals, castle raids and seiges.  It was an AWESOME shtick to use.  I recommend it HIGHLY.Edward KannThe StoryART Guy</blockquote>

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