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<blockquote data-quote="Ilium" data-source="post: 3724290" data-attributes="member: 40124">This is great stuff, Crust, thanks!&nbsp; You know I almost bought that issue a few months ago.&nbsp; I guess I'll have to now.I didn't want to make my initial post too long with all the background, but in fact the situation is kind of weird, so the question of how the fights fit into the campaign is...odd.&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I couldn't come up with a good way to wrangle the PCs into the arena in a way that fit both the story line and the world, so I'm having them &quot;dream-napped.&quot;&nbsp; They've become pretty famous, so an evil warlock, using an artifact from the empire's arcane heyday, will snatch them in their dreams and put them in a &quot;dream arena.&quot;&nbsp; Nobles and others in the Imperial city of Ilium pay big bucks to attend these matches in their own dreams, and the organizer doesn't run the risks usually involved in getting dangerous people and beasts.&nbsp; I'm thinking that anybody who &quot;dies&quot; in the arena will have consequences in the real world but not actually die.&nbsp; Probably negative levels and/or fatigue.&nbsp; Of course enough negative levels will kill you eventually anyway...The PCs will have to figure out how they've been roped into this mess and break the bad guy's magical connection that allows him to hijack their dreams.&nbsp; I'm not sure how he's doing it yet, though, so I don't know how they're going to break it.&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ilium, post: 3724290, member: 40124"] This is great stuff, Crust, thanks! You know I almost bought that issue a few months ago. I guess I'll have to now. I didn't want to make my initial post too long with all the background, but in fact the situation is kind of weird, so the question of how the fights fit into the campaign is...odd. :) I couldn't come up with a good way to wrangle the PCs into the arena in a way that fit both the story line and the world, so I'm having them "dream-napped." They've become pretty famous, so an evil warlock, using an artifact from the empire's arcane heyday, will snatch them in their dreams and put them in a "dream arena." Nobles and others in the Imperial city of Ilium pay big bucks to attend these matches in their own dreams, and the organizer doesn't run the risks usually involved in getting dangerous people and beasts. I'm thinking that anybody who "dies" in the arena will have consequences in the real world but not actually die. Probably negative levels and/or fatigue. Of course enough negative levels will kill you eventually anyway... The PCs will have to figure out how they've been roped into this mess and break the bad guy's magical connection that allows him to hijack their dreams. I'm not sure how he's doing it yet, though, so I don't know how they're going to break it. :) [/QUOTE]

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