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

["c m hylton" <cmhylton@earthlink.net>]

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From: "Allan Seyberth" <darious@darious.com>
To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 2:29 AM
Subject: RE: [DL] Thoughts on Old Pete {Spoilers}


> No spoilers actually follow - but it's a potential.
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>  >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.
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> 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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>
In the "nursery rhyme" fashion of "NOES Part X"
1-2 Stone's coming for you
3-4 Run some more
5-6 Better use some tricks
7-8 It's too late
9-10 Stone wins again...

C M Hylton