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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 5191110" data-attributes="member: 13703">Next session I am running my group through their first ever session of Feng Shui (the RPG, not the furniture arranging stuff! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />).  I plan on running the Baptism of Fire scenario from the Feng Shui RPG rulebook.As well as it being my players' first experience with Feng Shui, it will be the first time that I have run the system before.  I played a single session one-shot at a Con before so I am relatively new to the game as well.  I have had the Feng Shui RPG books for years, I've just never had a chance to run a session before now.Since the game will be completely new to them I want to make the first session as awesome as possible.  To give them an idea of how the game is supposed to run I e-mailed them the Feng Shui story hour 6 in the Chamber written by Dr Midnight, that was posted here on EN World many years ago.  I also explained to them that it plays out like a Hong Kong action movie.  Think of almost any Jackie Chan movie and you are pretty close to what a game of Feng Shui should be like.Since the players may take a little time to adapt to the different style of gameplay in Feng Shui (the group almost exclusively plays D&D) I figured I would work out some ideas of cool things that could happen during the fights and have the bad guys do them to help give the players a feel for things.   The scenario lists a few things cool things that could occur but I think I can expand on that.  And then I figured that many hands make light work so I should ask here for ideas as well!There are 4 fights in the scenario.  The first fight is in a restaurant in Hong Kong.  The second (possible) fight is in a topless bar/strip club/nightclub.  The third fight is at a construction site and the final fight is in a crowded high-rise apartment.To give you an idea of the types of suggestions I am after the scenario lists the following cool things that should happen in the restaurant fight:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Someone gets their face shoved into a sizzling hot plate on the countertop.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Thrown plates, bowls and wine bottles make excellent weapons.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There's a lobster tank bestide the cast register.  It should get smashed.  Maybe somebody's head should be plunged into it.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The cash register can be lifted up and smashed down on someone's head with a distinct "ding!" sound effect.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The dining room is on the second floor. There are great big plate glass windows facing the street.  People could get tossed through those windows to the street below.</li> </ul>Thanks in advance,Olaf the Stout</blockquote>

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