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<blockquote data-quote="jedavis" data-source="post: 5518969" data-attributes="member: 35933">During the last game I ran, I knew my (Traveller) players were headed for a particular system.&nbsp; My notes boiled down to &quot;System under Imperial interdiction due to meme-demon plague induced by &lt;Malevolent NPC&gt;.&nbsp; Fat Trader Albatross broken down near gas giant, Signal GKing - engineer driven insane by &lt;Malevolent NPC&gt;, released demons into ship, one survivor on bridge.&quot;&nbsp; I ended up coming up with stats for the demons on the fly - I had stats for some warp panthers (modeled after the Hounds of Tindalos, with the cornerjumping), so I changed claws to bite, added shadowdancer-style shadowporting, and a 1 in 6 miss chance against ranged weapons to create the Ixathil shadow-demons...&nbsp; as the PCs were fighting them.&nbsp; A little instant reskinning goes a long way.&nbsp; Likewise, Traveller's very helpful with the standard-issue deckplans; instant dungeon, just add description.&nbsp; They made it through the ship and the demons with only one almost-death, then decided to head planetside and I really started making things up; checks to evade imperial interdiction, then evading (and fighting) starport security to get to the computers that tracked the Malevolent NPC's arrival, then to a warehouse to disrupt his vile ritual of demonic ascension (with their starship laser, naturally...&nbsp; I love it when I don't even need stats for combat).&nbsp; And that ended that session...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jedavis, post: 5518969, member: 35933"] During the last game I ran, I knew my (Traveller) players were headed for a particular system. My notes boiled down to "System under Imperial interdiction due to meme-demon plague induced by <Malevolent NPC>. Fat Trader Albatross broken down near gas giant, Signal GKing - engineer driven insane by <Malevolent NPC>, released demons into ship, one survivor on bridge." I ended up coming up with stats for the demons on the fly - I had stats for some warp panthers (modeled after the Hounds of Tindalos, with the cornerjumping), so I changed claws to bite, added shadowdancer-style shadowporting, and a 1 in 6 miss chance against ranged weapons to create the Ixathil shadow-demons... as the PCs were fighting them. A little instant reskinning goes a long way. Likewise, Traveller's very helpful with the standard-issue deckplans; instant dungeon, just add description. They made it through the ship and the demons with only one almost-death, then decided to head planetside and I really started making things up; checks to evade imperial interdiction, then evading (and fighting) starport security to get to the computers that tracked the Malevolent NPC's arrival, then to a warehouse to disrupt his vile ritual of demonic ascension (with their starship laser, naturally... I love it when I don't even need stats for combat). And that ended that session... [/QUOTE]

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