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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Black Omega" data-source="post: 165018" data-attributes="member: 79">I'll give it a try.The low magic part hooked me, since that's what I've been running in my Rokugan game.  Low magic.  Magic items are the type from Magic of Rokugan, so they are attuned to their users.  As a result most magic items found don't work well for the PC's and the couple of times an items did seem to like a PC it simply worried them.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I do like to hit thePC's from different directions.  Mental:  A PC was hit with a Tainted arrow and failed his save. He ended up collapsing with a fever, had to be taken to the temple for special treatment.  And woke up finally blurting out about a 'vision' he'd had where he was on the Kaiu Wall, the massive fortification his clan was charged with guarding. In the vision everyone from his clan was killed, the Wall fell and he was left alone, fighting off his own doom.  He's now trying to decide if the vision means he'll cause the fall of the Wall, or if the vision is supposed to scare him away from going to the Wall.  A very fun way to torment a character.Physical:  Most of my fights use humans with levels, with now and then a dash of shadowlands creatures.  This emphasises tactics and dirty tricks over brutal power and magic.  Varoius people in the grouphave run into an archer named Taka over three combats.  In the first he stole one PC's double sword.  In another he used a Obscuring mist cast by someone else as cover to shoot up most ofthe group, then escape. The last time he layed out a challenge to the other two samurai in the group.  The two met him on his terms and between being filled with arrows from unexpected spots, they ran into traps he set ahead of time. When they retreated he left out a sign calling them cowards.  Then people started turnbing up pinned to walls by arrows and slashed up by a double sword..as he started practicing how to use 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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Beyond that I like keeping players off balance.  Smiling villains. Situations that are rarely what they seem, from a simple 'guard the gold' mission that turned into a fight with undead to a mission of revenge against an old lady and her guards that turned into a death struggle with hulking figures in mysterious masks.   As well as luring characters into an inn that turned out to be filled with undead under an illusion.  Even deadly temptations, like showing the grouip the most powerful magic weapon they had seen to this point..a flaming greatsword of known power, then attaching it to one of those massive figures in masks.  The group ultimately decided it wasn't worth the price to go after.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Really the mystery ofthe game is a great part ofthe challenge.  No one is scared by a half orc.  But if they don't know what they are facing...-that's- scary.</blockquote>

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