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Re: [DL] Adventure question

Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!!!

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I liked Night Train.  Fun adventure for my group....

Well, kinda...  There was a major pitfall: my posse missed the train!  They 
tracked down some sod farmers well outside of the town to get some 
information and took what the farmers said literally.  "A loud  scream," 
they had said, "like no animal we ever heard."  Well, my posse camped out 
to catch it as it came after these poor farmers.  Eerie train whistles 
sound remarkably like screaming animals, especially when they pass by you 
into the town an hour away!

So, be careful of red herrings! ;)

I guessed it would take one session to run it, and it did.  Even with full 
on combat I would guess it would take two at the most.  Since you have 
time, I'd advise really playing up the effects of the Train before the 
adventure.  I'd start hitting them up even before they're supposed to find 
the little station out  in the middle of nowhere.  If you'd like, I can 
send you a copy of a newspaper handout I made for my posse that has such an 
article.  Word Format.  Contact me via private email if you'd like it.

Dane

At 11:59 PM 8/25/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Okay, here goes. I'm eventually planning to run my posse through Night Train.
>This isn't for the immediate future, but if I know now it'll help plan the
>interim games a little better, especially since I'd like them to have 
>advanced a
>fair amount by the time they get there. I'd like at least one or two of 
>them to
>survive this adventure. ;)
>
>On average, how long did it take other posses to get through this adventure?
>This is an important consideration for me, since we don't play very often. I
>figure this adventure would suffer a lot if we interrupted it: lack of 
>momentum
>is never a good thing.
>
>Also, what were the major pitfalls/things not going according to plan that you
>ran into or even that your players ran into?
>
>Any and all advice, feedback, whatnot would be most welcome.
>
>Daphné