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<blockquote data-quote="(contact)" data-source="post: 1037256" data-attributes="member: 41"><p>The latter.</p><p></p><p>I created new character sheets for the PCs (and NPCs) sans magic items, then as we were getting ready to play, I asked for their character sheets. I put them away, and handed them the clone sheets, and said, "you wake up on your stone beir, within Martak's secret chamber".</p><p></p><p>They took it as well as could be expected, and played along, but I was definately persona non grata around their house for a week or so. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Heydricus' player was bitter enough to send emails to some of my gaming buddies that he doesn't even know, like an appeal to some higher court of sympathy mixed with a queer sort of pride that his DM was <em>really sick and wrong</em>.</p><p></p><p>-----</p><p></p><p>The original intent of the session was to play out the strong Eeeeeevil counter-attack, but as I was statting that encounter (and deciding on its tactical approach) I realized that I was most likely setting up a TPK.</p><p></p><p>Later events would prove me right, in fact.</p><p></p><p>I thought about scaling it back, but then it got my mind going that it would be O(TP)K so long as the bad guys didn't find the Liberator's clones (they wouldn't unless they went etheric, which wasn't part of their plan).</p><p></p><p>Then I thought, it would be so much cooler from a player's perspective to experience the wonder and mystery of being that clone if you didn't already know the answers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="(contact), post: 1037256, member: 41"] The latter. I created new character sheets for the PCs (and NPCs) sans magic items, then as we were getting ready to play, I asked for their character sheets. I put them away, and handed them the clone sheets, and said, "you wake up on your stone beir, within Martak's secret chamber". They took it as well as could be expected, and played along, but I was definately persona non grata around their house for a week or so. :p Heydricus' player was bitter enough to send emails to some of my gaming buddies that he doesn't even know, like an appeal to some higher court of sympathy mixed with a queer sort of pride that his DM was [i]really sick and wrong[/i]. ----- The original intent of the session was to play out the strong Eeeeeevil counter-attack, but as I was statting that encounter (and deciding on its tactical approach) I realized that I was most likely setting up a TPK. Later events would prove me right, in fact. I thought about scaling it back, but then it got my mind going that it would be O(TP)K so long as the bad guys didn't find the Liberator's clones (they wouldn't unless they went etheric, which wasn't part of their plan). Then I thought, it would be so much cooler from a player's perspective to experience the wonder and mystery of being that clone if you didn't already know the answers. [/QUOTE]
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