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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6205527" data-attributes="member: 6696971">Would that it wrote itself...takes 20 minutes to run (at most) and 40 minutes to post.  if only I had an assemblage of online, intrepid heroes to play-by-post and help scribe the ballad! <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" />  Next time I'm enlisting you and @<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?16586-Campbell" target="_blank">Campbell</a>!Having absolutely zero backstory with this one, that was the first thing that came to mind.  Fictional positioning being a contingent of archers camping outside the lair, moving in the PCs wake through the lair, PCs give a signal (perhaps a horn) and archers assemble on the (lair equivalent of) ramparts and let loose a volley as a single-use consumable boon.I'll post the analysis of the above from a:- Wargamer table agenda/mechanics etc (1eish)- AD&D 2e/CoC Storyteller- Process sim/causal logic sandbox (the way I ran 3.x)The Wargamer angle is pretty simple.  The aesthetic is typically that the regard for the fictional positioning and genre constraints is subordinate to defeating challenges; hence the murderhobos phenomenon.  There are several instances in that Skill Challenge of usage of sub-optimal skills due to coherency of fictional position.The Storyteller and process/sim sandbox one will be a lot more nuanced and require a more lengthy post.</blockquote>

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