ZEITGEIST My Campaign Journal postings (Updates +/- every Two weeks)

[Tiggerunner]

Chess puzzle I designed this morning as a password for opening a door during the Kell-Guild Takedown arc. Ignore the pictures on the 4x4 grid.

Rules:

1. Pieces use standard chess moves.
2. Every move has to make a capture.
3. The puzzle is solved when there is one remaining peice.
4. The King cannot move into a threatened space or stay in a threatened space.

Let me know if it's broken, but it's intended to have two possible solutions that only becomes evident in the last move.

 

[RangerWickett]

This works?

Knight takes rook.
King takes pawn.
Queen takes knight.
King takes queen.
King takes bishop.

 

[Tiggerunner]

This works?

Knight takes rook.
King takes pawn.
Queen takes knight.
King takes queen.
King takes bishop.

That solution works, and was not what I intended. I'll have to think about it some more. Here is what I wanted to have happen:

Knight takes Rook
King takes pawn
Queen takes bishop
Queen takes knight

Back to drawing board.

 

[Tiggerunner]

Also, the puzzle maybe acceptable as is. The point is that if the King is the last piece (symbolizing Kell) the door opens. If the Queen is the last peice (Symbolizing Quentin Augst), a secret passage opens. I thought it worked better with the last two peices being the King and Queen next to one another, but I suppose it still works for the mechanism.

 

[Tiggerunner]

In accounting and bookkeeping, a journal is a record of financial transactions in order by date. Traditionally, a journal has been defined as the book of original entry.

Ok, thanks. Sorry if you found the title of the thread misleading.

 

[Tiggerunner]

So I'm thinking about the Final Battle on tip of Boorne to close out Act I, and it reminds of something...

I'm considering telling my players, "Roll initative. The battle is now in real time. You have until this song ends before Boorne is activated!"


And then when Boorne comes online, play this during the exposition:

 

[RangerWickett]

My favorite timed boss fight was in Snake Eater at the end, where if you take a long enough time, the opening Bond theme starts to play.

 

[Tiggerunner]

Getting close to the Peace summit. Needed a seating chart, so I pieced this together from the way the conversations play out. Note, some of the NPCs don't have cards, so I proxied ones from the card set that I felt were close enough.

Basically, this is organized as a head table with the main delegation and key VIPs, as well as two of the side tables, and then a group of "roamers" that include security and wait staff. Card backs are PC seats.