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Message: <blockquote data-quote="viscounteric" data-source="post: 1790574" data-attributes="member: 9706">Forgive me Gygax, it has been two weeks since my last GM session  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /> As I just moved away from the Hackmaster group, we finished running Robinloft Except for the BurgerMeister's name, and the pestering spirit's in the town's graveyard, they found nothing funny about the module...  The party had been investigating rumors of "missing troops"  during the Marakeikan counter-attack on the kingdom of Vlachia.  ( I was running a HM version of X10 Red Arrow/Black Shield with an alternate earth Europe.)The party has been searching Castle Vlad Ne'er for the elusive count, only encountering a handful of bad-ass traps.The party's leader, a kick-ass 6th level Gnome Titan fighter.... fell down a 220 ft self-covering pit trap and was MIA for most of the session as the party desperately looked for a way to get him out.Ultimately the found themselves in the castle dungeons, killing a troll and recovering a man claiming to be the REAL Burgermeister.   While the party has searching through side passages, the party's battle mage decided to go check on the troll corpse (they had fireballed it, but forgot to search it)  Just then, the Count appears, and using his full arsenal of abilities/spells...  silences the mage, holds him, polymorph's the mage into the vampire's likeness, polymorph's himself to look for like the mage...  and calls on the party to help him....   As the party comes into the room, they see Turval (the mage) stabbing a vampire(?) with a wooden stake....(The "lost" gnome titan was beside himself during the incident.  Heck, the battle-mage player didn't know what exactly what was going one!)Ultimately, after the proper people were briefed/smacked around, the "battlemage" got his bearings and found a library to 'research'  the castle...  In relatively rapid "lucky" succession, they found the way to release the Gnome Titan and escape the fog, all while returning the real Burgermesiter to the village...Ultimately, with the very-protected vampire leaving the fog...  the thousands of missing troops emerged, and with the exception of the noble strongholds (i.e. vampire castles), most of Vlachia falls quickly....As I poorly playtested the wargame mechanics on a new battlefield, the war between Barthey (Byzantium) and the Master (the Desert Nomads) turned into a standstill in the middle of Barthey.  With more troops able to go to the front from Marakeikos, the Halfling lands, and the Gnomish lands, the Master's forces were quickly pushed back into the desert....for now.....  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /> Ultimately, we're shooting for quarterly weekend games when I can come down and run 6-10 hour sessions.  They still have 2 parts of the Giants series to finish...  and they need to get there revenge on the Slavers, who decimated the group while certain key players were unavailable last years...Now if I can just find players for the BD&D game I want to run up here.... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>

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