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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6037224" data-attributes="member: 6696971"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: white">On another note, here is the kind of "Queue the Benny Hill Theme Music" Strategic Power-Play hijinks that are totally destructive to the kind of game I'm interested in running these days:</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: white">From memory (this was several years ago): Phantom Steed + Fabricate tons of balls of (soon to be burning when the flying druid fire elemental and summoned fire elementals sets them alight) pitch in crafted Bags of Holding + Group of PCs flying sorties over a horde of trolls and their goblin minions in their dry, gaseous peat bog domain (and then rinsing and repeating a similar, yet slightly tweaked, power-play 3 more times in the next 5 months). I'm sure plenty of folks will read that and go OH YEAH. But at this point in my gaming life I just go...yeah. Its a legitimate playstyle (and god knows I'm very familiar with it and have played it for years upon years). Its just not what I'm interested in anymore.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: white">If that Strategic Power-Play was available (and there weren't tools that specifically promote and resolve the conflict the way we did), I guarantee the thematic, climactic and tactical awesomeness of my above Barbarian Horde overwhelming a Settlement scenario would not have been realized and the Benny Hill music would have been queued.</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 6037224, member: 6696971"] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=white]On another note, here is the kind of "Queue the Benny Hill Theme Music" Strategic Power-Play hijinks that are totally destructive to the kind of game I'm interested in running these days:[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=white]From memory (this was several years ago): Phantom Steed + Fabricate tons of balls of (soon to be burning when the flying druid fire elemental and summoned fire elementals sets them alight) pitch in crafted Bags of Holding + Group of PCs flying sorties over a horde of trolls and their goblin minions in their dry, gaseous peat bog domain (and then rinsing and repeating a similar, yet slightly tweaked, power-play 3 more times in the next 5 months). I'm sure plenty of folks will read that and go OH YEAH. But at this point in my gaming life I just go...yeah. Its a legitimate playstyle (and god knows I'm very familiar with it and have played it for years upon years). Its just not what I'm interested in anymore.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=white]If that Strategic Power-Play was available (and there weren't tools that specifically promote and resolve the conflict the way we did), I guarantee the thematic, climactic and tactical awesomeness of my above Barbarian Horde overwhelming a Settlement scenario would not have been realized and the Benny Hill music would have been queued.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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