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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kristivas" data-source="post: 3186521" data-attributes="member: 34179">I had attempted to end a game where the PCs had to piece together alliances between groups, clans, and tribes, sabotage enemy forces/powerful bad guys, and restore a Prince to the throne to bring an army together to defend the kingdom.  The game after that was gonna be on hold for two months, so my plan was to allow the PCs to witness the new King's army decimate the bad guys.  The Warlord who had been trying to take the throne with his army was originally going to escape and come back after the PCs after our break.  However....While the battle was occurring, I got that whole "it's great this worked out, but we have nothing to do" vibe.  They were kinda watching from a cliff (where they arrived just in time after getting a clan of Dwarves to agree to march into the enemy's rear and outflank them).  They watched as the Warlord and his Lts escaped from the battle as the Dwarves rode in.  That was supposed to be the end, but it didn't feel right.  So, rather than have it end that way, the PCs started to head down the field and were stopped by the Warlord and one of his Lts, who had made their way over while his remaining guard held back any reinforcements for the PCs.  He went into a rant about how the party ruined years of hard work, and he would make them pay, ect.  So, overlooking the battlefield, the PCs took down the bad guy.  I just couldn't let it end with them as spectators.We've had other games end without an epic fight, but sometimes it just doesn't feel right.</blockquote>

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