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Post by yojimbohawkins on Feb 26, 2014 13:14:04 GMT -8
Of course, we love being bad.
On a side note, I was thinking of running a 'Kill Harry Potter' game. Basically, the UK Government decides that magic is just too dangerous and starts a shadow war against the Wizard community; the PC's to be a crack team of badass wizard hunters.
Actually that could roll into a 'Kill the Wizards of Waverley Place' game. Just to be sure.
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Post by yojimbohawkins on Feb 26, 2014 13:15:35 GMT -8
Sorry about the double post, gents. My app said it had failed to post!
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Post by maxinstuff on Feb 26, 2014 15:20:33 GMT -8
yojimbohawkins - a game where spec ops soldiers are sent to hogwarts to murder the students and teachers sounds..... interesting. "Oh no - men with guns! Wingardium leviosaaaAAAAHHHHGHGHG!!!"
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Post by SirGuido on Feb 26, 2014 15:43:48 GMT -8
You guys are just the right kind of fucked up. I think thats why this feels like home.
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Post by yojimbohawkins on Feb 26, 2014 23:06:48 GMT -8
maxinstuff - I was thinking of a trilogy. Beaxbatons(?), Durmstrang(?), then the final assault on Hogwarts. The good news about Hogwarts is that renegade wizard JK Rowling has already published a lot information (or disinformation?) about wizards, so the players can come with tactics for defeating various wizard strategies and spell combinations. Although I suppose sniper rifles and belt-fed 40mm grenade launchers might win by default.....
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2014 6:26:40 GMT -8
You never know, I'm not sure anyone has calculated how many .50cal rounds it actually takes to bring down a full grown dragon. I suppose the belt-fed 40mm would be more than enough in the right situation though.
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Post by sbloyd on Feb 27, 2014 11:19:40 GMT -8
You never know, I'm not sure anyone has calculated how many .50cal rounds it actually takes to bring down a full grown dragon. I suppose the belt-fed 40mm would be more than enough in the right situation though. Ever seen Reign of Fire?
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Post by SirGuido on Feb 28, 2014 5:07:21 GMT -8
I'm playtesting this tomorrow so we'll see how it goes.
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Post by sbloyd on Feb 28, 2014 8:38:10 GMT -8
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Post by SirGuido on Feb 28, 2014 9:18:03 GMT -8
I'd watch that...
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Post by kevinr on Mar 1, 2014 10:34:43 GMT -8
The Inglorious Muggles hunting down wizards and carving lightning bolts in the foreheads of the ones they let go.
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Post by stork on Mar 1, 2014 18:16:22 GMT -8
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Post by SirGuido on Mar 2, 2014 12:37:27 GMT -8
I ran this yesterday as a playtest. I ended up dumping the airport scene at the last minute and I'm glad I did as it didn't really feel like it fit in, and if I'd left it we'd have run out of time. Ended up with three scenes.
Scene 1: Rooftop battle with dark wizards, where the dark wizards entire goal is to cast the Imperius Curse on at least one of the party. (I succeeded in doing this.)
Scene 2: Interrogation at HQ. Even with something as obvious as Veritaserum at their disposal... my players still kinda sucked at this part. They weren't really able to get much info out of their TWO captured bad guys. They phrased their questions in such a way that even under truth potion they were able to give information that wasn't what the group was looking for.
Scene 3: The BBEG's mansion. They basically got a location and apparrated in to take him out. They explored the mansion a bit and ended up at the central tower of the mansion and ran into some security measures(a living poisonous plant) before fighting the big bad guy.
The biggest things I learned in my playtest:
I need to break the spell list into the types of actions they can be used for(Attack, Defend, Create an Advantage, Overcome). I need to change up the bad guys a bit because they were a little too easy. I need to put some personality on the NPCs I left them open so the players could make them their own but it didn't really work. I need to tweak my bad guy a bit.
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Post by SirGuido on Mar 3, 2014 16:39:40 GMT -8
Oh btw, as a nod to the 'cast I called the evil wizard group the Violet Nightfall.
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Post by sbloyd on Mar 3, 2014 18:42:23 GMT -8
Those guys sure are getting around.
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