RE: [DL] Thoughts on Old Pete {Spoilers}

[Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>]

No spoilers actually follow - but it's a potential.




 >Also, I have just recently realized something. My players put a lot of
 >planning and hard work into that ambush. They watched and studied Stone for
 >a long time, and when it was all over with, even though four of them eneded
 >up dead, it was obvious they were having a good time. Maybe nothing really
 >wnt all that wrong.


It sounds like everything went right, to me.  :-)

Stone is not meant to be unbeatable - but a posse has to be derned good and 
derned clever to be able to do it.

What you might want to do is "retire" what's left of the current party and 
start with a new set of characters.  Now that Stone's power level has been 
_perfectly_ established, when the new party encounters Stone they are going 
to be crapping their chaps.

You might even be able to make it a long term adventure.  Weave in the 
surviving member of the previous posse who is running for his life from 
Stone and this famous hero runs across the new party obviously scared out 
of his wits. A few mumbled lines about "beating the bastard once" and maybe 
a diary left behind - and then a gruesome death and a new party of heroes 
has to step up to the plate.
That sort of "Nightmare on Elm Street part 27" sort a thing.  :-)





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Allan Seyberth
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