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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Dallman" data-source="post: 8769113" data-attributes="member: 6999616">The world of Avalon has been run by the same DM for about 45 years. Many campaigns have been run, our AD&D1e game is only the latest. In the Blackmoor tradition, there have been aliens from space, including a colonisation ship with about two billion kobolds on board. Sorting that out was a bit complicated. A couple of years ago, somebody in orbit dropped "Rods from God" kinetic strikes on quite a few cities. The reasons for this are complicated, but a PC with far more ego than sense was tricked into playing a part that the bad guys couldn't do themselves. Our current campaign has been partly about assisting with the recovery from the orbital strikes. The government we work for has decided to annex some land that was not previously organised, so we've been hexcrawling it, to find communities and offering them the choice of (a) join the country, get protection, pay taxes, obey laws (b) leave unmolested, with several months notice or (c) if they insist, we'll drive them out by force. We also try to deal with monsters that are aggressive enough to attack us while we're doing the hexcrawl. So far we've managed to back off and call for help on things that are too tough for us (one beholder, and some ropers, thus far). We knew that there were goblins in a part of the area, because we've spotted them gathering food from the farmed area round one of the flattened cities. We had no real objection to this, and had tried to talk to them, but they ran away. Yesterday we found the goblin tribe from the other side of their territory. Since we were at one of their sentry posts, looked far too tough for them, and wanted to talk, they were willing to talk. They were also willing to join, because they were under the impression that the flattened city they'd seen had been flattened by the government for rebellion, or otherwise not staying in line. We managed not to disabuse them of this idea; they clearly had not heard that many cities had been struck. There were about a thousand goblins in total, including women and children. I'm not sure we could have fought all of them successfully, but we'd have torn a big hole in their warrior supply, and they didn't want to try it. The government will send a negotiator and guards to sort out the details, and hopefully someone to deal with the ropers in the marsh near the goblin cave. We weren't going to try it: we might manage one roper, but not several.</blockquote>

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