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Message: <blockquote data-quote="khantroll" data-source="post: 5887847" data-attributes="member: 95652">Sorry it's taken me to so long to get back to this thread, but I was  going over Complete Warrior and making notes, as well as planning out my  order of adventures. WG: Divinations are surprisingly rare in our games anyway, and the State  is devoting most of what it has to research (in vein of Nazi Occult  experiments) and looking for a missing high ranking official. Great minds think alike; they will be working for a resistance network,  headed (in the beginning) by an Elven General and supported (covertly)  by his government. The possibility of them raising an army  Bolshevik-style is further sabotaged by the fact that, in this kingdom,  the system works. The people are protected (from outside forces), trade  is good, etc. The only problem is that it's a dictatorship, where you  live, die, and suffer at the whim of the king. In my group, we do a build night, which is a session dedicated entirely  to PC building. During the one for this campaign, I did my best to  stress that if they try to fight like adventurers instead of guerrilla  forces, they WILL die. I think the first encounter (a squad of first  level gnomish fighters with an iron golem in tow against 1st level pcs)  will illustrate that point as well. Like you say, if they can escape the golem and beat the patrol, then  encounter completed. If they go toe to toe against the golem...well, as  they say in Kodt, character sheets are cheap. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />You give me hope though, because I've been worried about the usability of this premise past level 10. By my figuring, the courier mission should take them to 3-5, then the  doctor. Either before or after that, they'll do a prison break where  either way, they're going to have a setback (I'm leery of details; one  of my players strolls through here on occasion). Then, they'll be try to  throw the government off by making it seem like one of the high ranking  officials is a traitor, but that will backfire. I've also adapted Hour  of the Knife into an adventure for this setting, replacing the  Doppelgangers on one side with a resistance cell member gone rogue and  State agents on the other. This will set them up for the first actual  fight with upper level members of the State (think SS), and then into  higher level play.Sound like fun?</blockquote>

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