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<blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 8624967" data-attributes="member: 6785785"><p>[USER=6696971]@Manbearcat[/USER]</p><p></p><p>So I have a question based on our last session and how things played out. I leveled up at the start of the session, and decided to take the playbook ability The Hammer and the Book. For anyone reading, here's what it does:</p><p></p><p><strong><u>THE HAMMER AND THE BOOK </u></strong></p><p>When you strike a thing of supernatural chaos, roll +WIS: on a 10+, deal your damage and choose 1 from the list below; on a 7-9, deal damage and choose 1, but you also expose yourself to harm or unwanted attention. </p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Deal +1d6 damage </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ignore the thing’s armor or other defenses </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Suppress one of its unnatural powers </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Force it from its host</li> </ul><p>This decision became very relevant to the way the session played out, as Lief, the newcomer to Stonetop who had been traumatized by the hillfolk clan we rescued him from, went on a disruptive rant that we tried to quell. It turned out he was actually possessed of a demonic entity from his imprisonment by the hillfolk, and Cullen used his new ability to drive the entity from him. </p><p></p><p>So my question is a kind of about the chicken/egg aspect of this. You had given us hints that Lief was not well; we witnessed him get violently ill at the end of our previous session. This likely played into my decision to choose the Hammer and the Book as my advance; mostly I think I did so because it seems to offer a nice spread of options. But that last one there was on my mind in particular, given how play has involved spirits and demonic beings and the like. </p><p></p><p>Did you decide to frame the situation with Lief with my choice of playbook ability in mind? Or was this something that you already had brewing? Obviously, Lief was some kind of issue, but to what extent had you detailed that? The bit about him making the distiller's apprentice get him booze seemed to be one way that Lief was causing discord in the community. Was that the original idea which then got subsumed by the possession idea? Or was the possession idea or something like it there all along? </p><p></p><p>I think it'd be interesting to see how this threat came about, and when these details were considered and at what point they crystalized. I have ideas or assumptions, but I think it'd be interesting to see a kind of timeline on it from the GM perspective.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hawkeyefan, post: 8624967, member: 6785785"] [USER=6696971]@Manbearcat[/USER] So I have a question based on our last session and how things played out. I leveled up at the start of the session, and decided to take the playbook ability The Hammer and the Book. For anyone reading, here's what it does: [B][U]THE HAMMER AND THE BOOK [/U][/B] When you strike a thing of supernatural chaos, roll +WIS: on a 10+, deal your damage and choose 1 from the list below; on a 7-9, deal damage and choose 1, but you also expose yourself to harm or unwanted attention. [LIST] [*]Deal +1d6 damage [*]Ignore the thing’s armor or other defenses [*]Suppress one of its unnatural powers [*]Force it from its host [/LIST] This decision became very relevant to the way the session played out, as Lief, the newcomer to Stonetop who had been traumatized by the hillfolk clan we rescued him from, went on a disruptive rant that we tried to quell. It turned out he was actually possessed of a demonic entity from his imprisonment by the hillfolk, and Cullen used his new ability to drive the entity from him. So my question is a kind of about the chicken/egg aspect of this. You had given us hints that Lief was not well; we witnessed him get violently ill at the end of our previous session. This likely played into my decision to choose the Hammer and the Book as my advance; mostly I think I did so because it seems to offer a nice spread of options. But that last one there was on my mind in particular, given how play has involved spirits and demonic beings and the like. Did you decide to frame the situation with Lief with my choice of playbook ability in mind? Or was this something that you already had brewing? Obviously, Lief was some kind of issue, but to what extent had you detailed that? The bit about him making the distiller's apprentice get him booze seemed to be one way that Lief was causing discord in the community. Was that the original idea which then got subsumed by the possession idea? Or was the possession idea or something like it there all along? I think it'd be interesting to see how this threat came about, and when these details were considered and at what point they crystalized. I have ideas or assumptions, but I think it'd be interesting to see a kind of timeline on it from the GM perspective. [/QUOTE]
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