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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Leopold" data-source="post: 1771995" data-attributes="member: 758">pwhwhahahahahhahahah! My PC's are diehard power gamers. All of them are Warhammer/D20 Mini's gamers. They thrive on combat and once I told them that they have the potential to kill every monster from Aboleth to Zombie including the Tarrasque they started salivating. I already dished out the following info to them per the books request:1. No spells that cause entaglement: web, black tentacles, etc.2. No druids or wizards: They get screwed.3. When they die, they can't play the same race or PC that they had before. Creates variety.Now when reading the book I came up with a BRILLIANT! idea. At the  beginning of the book I saw mention of the Lantern Archons. They are supposed to be at the beginning and end of the regions. I thought "Hmm how can I use these things." and came up with my idea after watching Tron on DVD!The Lantern Archons are recorders of all that has gone on in the WLD. They are the security cameras that were asigned to monitor and report back what happens to their superiors. Since the WLD has been 'broken' per se, they have had their 'programming' change to record all those who enter each area and their success and failure on what they accomplish. They can and do follow around the PC's and provide basic light source, so that solves the lighting problem, and can answer basic questions on the area as the PC's explore and provide a holographic map for the area. This solves both light problems and mapping problems. Furthermore, since I am counting on PC's dying. I can have the Lantern go retrieve the new PC's that are created and bring them back to the party. This solves why new PC's appear and how to integrate them. The celestials are counting on keeping the parties as cohesive as possible to rid themselves of the rampaging demons. They are also pretty damn weak so I figure allot of them would die keeping track of things as they follow each party around. So I named them: <type> <number of current unit> <region>Ex: L129ALantern Archon 129th one that has existed for Region ANow I use a laptop in my game, it makes keeping track of things easier, while watching Tron I saw the Bit program that talks to the guy trapped in the game. I immediately thought of the Lantern Archons as those same lil programs and how they talk. I downloaded a Text To Speech program that will speak what I type on the computer so it will sound like a neutral tone voice similar to a computer, which is what these things are.Example:Pc's enter the WLD.PC: Where the @!%#@!%! are we?Lantern Archon: <synthesized voice> Welcome to Demonium Carcer (latin for Demon prison), This unit is desginated L481A and will be your guide while you are in Region A subsection A1.PC: What the @%#@% are you?LA: I am L481A.PC: USELESS!!! <attacks thing>LA diesLA: <new one appears> Welcome to the Demonium Carcer. This unit is L482A and will be your guide while you are in Region A subsection A1. PC: Well, ok.All the voices will be done by me typing and having the computer say it. I'm not going to give these things much more than the basic information on the Region that they are supposed to know. Example:PC: What's ahead?LA: UnknownPC: I thought you know this place?LA: This unit does not know what is behind every door.PC: What use are you?LA: This unit provides light source for you to see. Do you wish to deactivate the light source?PC: <looking for torches> guess not.Also, with the light source being shown all the time, suprise will be on the enemies which works well for me. I wonder how long it will be before the PC's figure that out.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /></blockquote>

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