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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Old One" data-source="post: 322127" data-attributes="member: 83">From the DM's Chair...I think my most intense experience came from the DM's chair early in my <a href="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13867" target="_blank">Faded Glory Campaign</a>.The PC's had been tasked by the Council of Elders with returning the son of a barbarian warlord to his people (so they would stop attacking townsfolk.  The situation was complicated by the fact that the PC Barbarian was considered a renegade and had run off with the prisoner's betrothed some time before.During the journey, the highly charismatic bard and sorcerer (brothers) befriended the barbarian NPC and laid the groundwork for a lasting peace agreement between the barbarians and the townfolk.  Unfortunately, when they released the NPC within sight of his clansmen, a hidden assassain shot and critically wounded the NPC.Quick thinking by the PCs saved the barbarian NPCs life, but his clansmen thought the PCs were attacking their leader and came howling after them.  Faced with an unknown number (it was around 50) of blood-mad tribesmen, the PCs ran off into the fog and up a hill.As I described the game of cat-and-mouse through the fog shrouded woods, with an unknown assassain and pissed off barbarians after them, I looked around to see all of the players on the edge of their seats.As the session continued, they stumbled upon an abandoned legion hillfort and began a running defensive battle against the barbarians.  Through skill, bravado, well-timed spells and sheer luck...they managed to slowly fall back to the last defensive position.  During the retreat, they found the PC barbarian's former lover (the betrothed of the NPC barbarian) and their "love child".  She had fled from the tribe, taking the baby and a tribal artifact with her.  During the battle that followed, the lover was slain, but the PCs triumphed...leaving the PC barbarian with a 3-month old baby to care for.After the session, the players all said it was the most intense session they had ever been though.  You can check the action out here <a href="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=104&perpage=40&pagenumber=1" target="_blank">Link</a>...It is about 1/2 the way down the page...starting at Session 5 (Part One).~ Old One</blockquote>

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