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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 305762" data-attributes="member: 2205">Well, to those who are following this story hour (Horacio and ...ehh, well Horacio at least) we did play this last weekend: a one-shot Aliens rip-off which I DMed.  Each character had a Jamis Buck generated Expert3 and Warrior3 with a few Dragonstar skills, feats and equipment slapped on, and then they were thrust inside a space ship trying to salvage hyperdrive parts that they needed for their own ship.  Unbeknownst to them, the ship was infested with creatures having <a href="http://harineldermage.tripod.com/d20/XenomorphTemplate.html" target="_blank">this template</a> although a bit toned down so that every acidic blood splash wasn't a ticket to instant death.  Still, I killed 5 PCs, and two of the three survivors were healed up from negative numbers.  The one hale survivor, who's name was Rosario or something like that (prompting player jokes that she was the maid from Will & Grace) who wasn't hit by anything the whole night!  I don't remember too many of the details: who went down when (each player had two characters as I anticipated a lot of downtime for players otherwise) but it was lots of fun.What's perhaps more interesting, and I'm not sure how to keep this up in this thread, we decided to a plan moving forward.  This campaign was never really intended to be a long-term campaign, but we've had enough fun with it that we don't want to kill it off entirely.  One guy will DM a long-term campaign using Shadow Chasers rules: he describes it as X-files meets Raiders of the Lost Ark.  But, not wanting to be burdened with coming up with a new adventure every week, we decided that he'll do it every other week, or perhaps every third week even.  On the off-weeks, either one of the rest of us would DM a seperate long-term campaign (or not) and we'll continue the one-off tradition, trying to maintain our characters from this campaign as much as possible.  So, although the campaign is kinda up in the air right now, we'll have at least one more adventure with these characters, and possibly more as we move forward.</blockquote>

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