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<blockquote data-quote="weem" data-source="post: 5147250" data-attributes="member: 9470">No problem, glad you liked it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Yes! It was one of my favorite games DM'd for 4e (top 5).What you could do is that instead of killing them all (the bodyguards played by the players) is stop when there is one player left... maybe backup arrives for them. The assassin would then take off in a flash, leaving the one survivor......Then, the PC's could learn at some point that, guess what... there is rumor that a guard survived the attack. This survivor may have recounted the attack to family members or friends... this recounting could contain an identity of the assassin etc. Maybe the tale indicates that the assassin was wounded - slashed in the face. Maybe that matches up with a certain NPC who was later treated after being &quot;attacked by a bear&quot; and slashed in the face etc.It doesn't really give you a &quot;meaningful difference&quot; in the outcome or anything - this would be planned to occur, etc. But it's just an idea that immediately came to mind - for fun. It may not work with other things you have going on for all I know.Although (sorry, I'm typing as I think here), you could involve skill checks/challenges to glean said information during the fight, thus putting the potential gathering of info into their hands, which in turn allowed for it to be passed on in the first place. You could even mention towards the end of the fight that it is apparent the assassin is too much for them, giving one or more of them an opportunity to run (after having identified the assassin, etc), again, putting in their hands the chance to let the information survive.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="weem, post: 5147250, member: 9470"] No problem, glad you liked it ;) Yes! It was one of my favorite games DM'd for 4e (top 5). What you could do is that instead of killing them all (the bodyguards played by the players) is stop when there is one player left... maybe backup arrives for them. The assassin would then take off in a flash, leaving the one survivor... ...Then, the PC's could learn at some point that, guess what... there is rumor that a guard survived the attack. This survivor may have recounted the attack to family members or friends... this recounting could contain an identity of the assassin etc. Maybe the tale indicates that the assassin was wounded - slashed in the face. Maybe that matches up with a certain NPC who was later treated after being "attacked by a bear" and slashed in the face etc. It doesn't really give you a "meaningful difference" in the outcome or anything - this would be planned to occur, etc. But it's just an idea that immediately came to mind - for fun. It may not work with other things you have going on for all I know. Although (sorry, I'm typing as I think here), you could involve skill checks/challenges to glean said information during the fight, thus putting the potential gathering of info into their hands, which in turn allowed for it to be passed on in the first place. You could even mention towards the end of the fight that it is apparent the assassin is too much for them, giving one or more of them an opportunity to run (after having identified the assassin, etc), again, putting in their hands the chance to let the information survive. [/QUOTE]

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