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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9248661" data-attributes="member: 29398">Agreed on all counts.&nbsp; I'm not saying there shouldn't be any tension, I'm just saying it doesn't have to be all tension all the time, which is how the AW descriptions seem to be coming across.&nbsp; And sometimes the &quot;bad guys&quot; are just individuals going about their daily lives.(in my current game they're up against raiding giants, hence my example, doing lots of hit-and-run attacks as they're not powerful enough to take on the whole lot at once. Last session the party were very disappointed to see the giants leaving en masse with all their stuff (quote: &quot;That's our treasure walking away!&quot;) but couldn't pursue because a) 15 giants is still too many to take on all at once and b) the party's mission was in fact to take and hold the keep the giants just left)Got it.I think of the scene in Pirates of the Caribbean III where Will and Elizabeth get Barbossa to marry them in mid-combat during the climactic fight scene - that was great stuff! <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="Lanefan, post: 9248661, member: 29398"] Agreed on all counts. I'm not saying there shouldn't be any tension, I'm just saying it doesn't have to be all tension all the time, which is how the AW descriptions seem to be coming across. And sometimes the "bad guys" are just individuals going about their daily lives. (in my current game they're up against raiding giants, hence my example, doing lots of hit-and-run attacks as they're not powerful enough to take on the whole lot at once. Last session the party were very disappointed to see the giants leaving en masse with all their stuff (quote: "That's our treasure walking away!") but couldn't pursue because a) 15 giants is still too many to take on all at once and b) the party's mission was in fact to take and hold the keep the giants just left) Got it. I think of the scene in Pirates of the Caribbean III where Will and Elizabeth get Barbossa to marry them in mid-combat during the climactic fight scene - that was great stuff! :) [/QUOTE]

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