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<blockquote data-quote="wlmartin" data-source="post: 5730487" data-attributes="member: 6679380"><p>Firstly - I have temporarily nerfed the bats/gas by a neat cocktail of garlic forced down her neck.</p><p></p><p>Next - I gave the group the following concept</p><p></p><p>(The group is lvl 11 aside from 1 PC who is lvl 15 and one NPC healer who is llvl 15, the PC(15) has been kidnapped and the others need to rescue him/her)</p><p></p><p>I then told them to roll me up some toons asking the kidnapped guy to come up with a story for his character, he suggested that the toon was captured by the local towns people and thus is the start of my story.</p><p></p><p>I had a concept of them having to rescue him from a corrupt temple with Beholders running around but I gave the group the opportunity to set the starting point and here we are !</p><p></p><p></p><p>She is kidnapped because she was found feasting on an animal near the village and the gnomish bumpkins do the only thing they can think of... make a party out of her burning!</p><p></p><p></p><p>So far as suggested above my biggest problem is getting the rescuers to the captured vampire in a way that seems realistic and allows me to chain the following encounters from that point on.</p><p></p><p>There is no point in me saying "Poof, you make your way to the pole in the centre of the village with everyone watching, you release him and escape the village and now you are all being hunted"... thats not my angle</p><p></p><p>The group have given me a story to work with and it is my job to find a way to make it work both in a believable fashion but foremost in a way that reunifies the party before any serious action begins</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wlmartin, post: 5730487, member: 6679380"] Firstly - I have temporarily nerfed the bats/gas by a neat cocktail of garlic forced down her neck. Next - I gave the group the following concept (The group is lvl 11 aside from 1 PC who is lvl 15 and one NPC healer who is llvl 15, the PC(15) has been kidnapped and the others need to rescue him/her) I then told them to roll me up some toons asking the kidnapped guy to come up with a story for his character, he suggested that the toon was captured by the local towns people and thus is the start of my story. I had a concept of them having to rescue him from a corrupt temple with Beholders running around but I gave the group the opportunity to set the starting point and here we are ! She is kidnapped because she was found feasting on an animal near the village and the gnomish bumpkins do the only thing they can think of... make a party out of her burning! So far as suggested above my biggest problem is getting the rescuers to the captured vampire in a way that seems realistic and allows me to chain the following encounters from that point on. There is no point in me saying "Poof, you make your way to the pole in the centre of the village with everyone watching, you release him and escape the village and now you are all being hunted"... thats not my angle The group have given me a story to work with and it is my job to find a way to make it work both in a believable fashion but foremost in a way that reunifies the party before any serious action begins [/QUOTE]
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