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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeapThaumaturgist" data-source="post: 2454495" data-attributes="member: 12332">My grand finale climax went like that on Thursday.  I'm moving, so we were rounding out the SWRPG game ... they've been hunting one of their fellow padawans for some time (everybody is 6th, almost 7th, we were going to get them to knighthood).  The whole revolved around getting this guy to drive the Force Wraith inhabiting him out of his body ... on a planet full of people inhabited by wraith-possessed people.  I was expecting them to fight him down, role play a bit, and eventually all Aid Another on Force Light checks to burn the wraith ...I spent an hour coming up with the adventure layout for the evening, laid out the dark-side temple, built the main room with columns of differing heights and platforms and a pool with a raised dias ... a bunch of initiate jedi to fight, a big-bad jedi instructor, and Ovan Tarr (the fellow they were there to save) as one of the more powerful students.  I pictured a stunning combat, jedi-jumping from pillar to pillar Wudan style, flashing sabers, evil monologues, etc.So the Dark Instructor gave his prepared evil speech, the characters implored Ovan Tarr to come with them, were spurned ... everybody had the moment of grimacing "Jedi Buff" round ... some padawans came wudan-ing across the 'water hazard' with flashing sabers, several more went skipping up the pillars dramatically ...The Ithorian Healer took a move in and targeted Ovan with Malacia ... what we came to call "The Jedi Brown Note".  Spent a Force point for a huge roll, got the top save DC, and even with a good save Ovan blew it by 1 and was Stunned for 2d6 rounds (5).  So he's out of the combat.  The next round the padawans came skipping in again, one blows a jump roll on a 1 and falls in the pond.  Not "cool" at all.  Then another blows his jump roll with a 1 and falls off a pillar ... my dramatic scenario is starting to go down hill.  The Ithorian decides to burn through his VP and uses Heroic Surge to whack  a nearby "Tough Padawan" with Malacia ... who goes down for 2d6 (4) and a Full Round action to target the Instructor across the room, who goes down for 8 rounds.   It's now down to the party vs.  the weakest padawans in the room and a handfull of battle droids.  The party Force Pushes the padawans away and Prone, one grabs Ovan and tosses him over his shoulders, and they run out the door.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />Wasn't quite the drama I was looking for.  One PC gives most of the enemy a stomach ache and they grab their target and flee while the rest of the enemy flounders around in the water.  The players loved it, though.  They were in stitches.  So I'm glad they had fun with it.  --fje</blockquote>

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