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<blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 7337842" data-attributes="member: 97077">Makes sense. Especially since we don't know which way the players will go in terms of their support. We also don't know their party composition which may play into the choices they make. That's kind of the fun of one-shots in my opinion. I've run this particular scenario in D&amp;D 4e and D&amp;D 5e probably a dozen times. (What I'm doing now is a rewrite to bring it in line with the standards of my &quot;one-shot hub&quot; on Roll20.) It's very interesting and informative to see what different groups do when presented with the same problem. Some players have played it more than once, making different choices with different characters each time. It's neat. So far as I can tell, there's no one best way to approach the challenge.One other observation: If the PCs excel at swaying voters, they end up making the resulting fight easier since there are more undecided's who will not engage. If they are particularly unsuccessful, they make the resulting fight harder. So the underlying structure to the social interaction challenge will spit out a setup for the ensuing combat challenge. That'll make it easy to run.Thanks for the kind words. I hadn't intended on distributing this as it's a great deal longer than my usual short-form scenarios. But, hey, anyone who wants to play can always hit me up when I'm running it on Roll20! I'll likely be running it in both February and March.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="iserith, post: 7337842, member: 97077"] Makes sense. Especially since we don't know which way the players will go in terms of their support. We also don't know their party composition which may play into the choices they make. That's kind of the fun of one-shots in my opinion. I've run this particular scenario in D&D 4e and D&D 5e probably a dozen times. (What I'm doing now is a rewrite to bring it in line with the standards of my "one-shot hub" on Roll20.) It's very interesting and informative to see what different groups do when presented with the same problem. Some players have played it more than once, making different choices with different characters each time. It's neat. So far as I can tell, there's no one best way to approach the challenge. One other observation: If the PCs excel at swaying voters, they end up making the resulting fight easier since there are more undecided's who will not engage. If they are particularly unsuccessful, they make the resulting fight harder. So the underlying structure to the social interaction challenge will spit out a setup for the ensuing combat challenge. That'll make it easy to run. Thanks for the kind words. I hadn't intended on distributing this as it's a great deal longer than my usual short-form scenarios. But, hey, anyone who wants to play can always hit me up when I'm running it on Roll20! I'll likely be running it in both February and March. [/QUOTE]

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