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<blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 5815079" data-attributes="member: 25619"><p>Very often in my email campaign, less often in my "live" at a table campaign. Probably because I have more time to cogitate in the email campaign, and do more customized adventures (versus running commercial adventures as written).</p><p></p><p>The monsters always use CaW tactics (fight to win) and often go on the offensive or use sneaky tactics if it's helpful for them.</p><p></p><p>Some recent CaW actions by enemies in the email campaign:</p><p>-- Slowly building up a plot to take over a city that the PC's haven't noticed yet.</p><p>-- Gathering hobgoblins and some giants to obviously threaten a town, with the real goal being to ambush the reaction force (and distract them from the city that's the strategic target). Foiled by PC's!</p><p>-- Infilrating the town and getting their people into jobs as bodyguards for the ruler. Foiled by PC's!</p><p>-- Attacking a village to slaughter people and cause internal disruption, keeping nobles in the center of the country from moving their feudal hosts to the front. Oh yeah, and infect some survivors with lycantrophy. Pretty much a draw, though the PC's tracked down all the werewolves.</p><p>-- Assaulting a noble's tower from the front, while the assassin attempted to swim up, climb a wall, and break into the chapel -- their plan before the fight, and they got super lucky that the PC's put the guy they were guarding there! The enemy got super unlucky though, when the NPC Aristocrat target desparately tried a Bull Rush and succeeded in knocking the Boss Monster/Assassin out the window and back into the river! PC's win!</p><p></p><p>Recently in the "live" campaign:</p><p>-- During a fight, the enemy pulled in everyone from several rooms that they could alert, for what became a very tough fight.</p><p></p><p>Note that a lot of these plots would be pretty similar to what I did in running RECON (Vietnam War Long Range Recon Patrol RPG), so nor just CaW but "Fantasy Vietnam", though I suspect other people mean other things by that!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="haakon1, post: 5815079, member: 25619"] Very often in my email campaign, less often in my "live" at a table campaign. Probably because I have more time to cogitate in the email campaign, and do more customized adventures (versus running commercial adventures as written). The monsters always use CaW tactics (fight to win) and often go on the offensive or use sneaky tactics if it's helpful for them. Some recent CaW actions by enemies in the email campaign: -- Slowly building up a plot to take over a city that the PC's haven't noticed yet. -- Gathering hobgoblins and some giants to obviously threaten a town, with the real goal being to ambush the reaction force (and distract them from the city that's the strategic target). Foiled by PC's! -- Infilrating the town and getting their people into jobs as bodyguards for the ruler. Foiled by PC's! -- Attacking a village to slaughter people and cause internal disruption, keeping nobles in the center of the country from moving their feudal hosts to the front. Oh yeah, and infect some survivors with lycantrophy. Pretty much a draw, though the PC's tracked down all the werewolves. -- Assaulting a noble's tower from the front, while the assassin attempted to swim up, climb a wall, and break into the chapel -- their plan before the fight, and they got super lucky that the PC's put the guy they were guarding there! The enemy got super unlucky though, when the NPC Aristocrat target desparately tried a Bull Rush and succeeded in knocking the Boss Monster/Assassin out the window and back into the river! PC's win! Recently in the "live" campaign: -- During a fight, the enemy pulled in everyone from several rooms that they could alert, for what became a very tough fight. Note that a lot of these plots would be pretty similar to what I did in running RECON (Vietnam War Long Range Recon Patrol RPG), so nor just CaW but "Fantasy Vietnam", though I suspect other people mean other things by that! [/QUOTE]
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