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Page 1177 - Tails of Empire, Part 2
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The puns in this are so bad I am applauding. Well done, sir. You have certainly done your homework.
Ohhh boy. DMPC comes in to save the day. What can go wrong? (Apart from "all the things", that is?)
I never thought about using wikipedia to get punny names...
So many missed opportunities...
So many missed opportunities...
That makes sense. As annoying as I'm sure they often are, I imagine Dash wants to finish this race with roughly the same number of daughters she started with.
In meta terms, she only made the encounter that tough so she'd have the opportunity to grandstand.
When I did this, I wanted an excuse to divert the characters to a settlement they had no reason to visit otherwise, which is slightly less ignoble but it still didn't work.
When I did this, I wanted an excuse to divert the characters to a settlement they had no reason to visit otherwise, which is slightly less ignoble but it still didn't work.
Not having access to the actual class powers for the assassin, I didn't want to do anything technical.
It's a slow race if she finishes with more daughters...
Faster if the new daughters are adopted, though.
To address both Borg and Wulfraed, I have two words:
Cloning tanks.
Cloning tanks.
Ah, yes, the old "ultra-deadly encounter so the GMPC can show off".
A classic.
A classic.
GrayGriffin: Yeah, there are times when the cavalry is needed, and ways to make it more of a payoff than a way of taking the wind out of the players' sales. Holding off waves of minions so the PCs can focus on the big bad is one.
My group once had a situation where, after taking down an area boss, we came out and walked into an ambush of all the baddies we'd avoided fighting on the way in while we were battered and depleted, but a literal cavalry of paladins showed up to fight them off (after my character had been ganked by an invisible assassin for dramatic effect) and offer us mounts to get to the final confrontation.
When it gets ANNOYING is when the DM sets it up so the PCs have no chance from the start so they can show off their OC, Drizz't SonGoku.
My group once had a situation where, after taking down an area boss, we came out and walked into an ambush of all the baddies we'd avoided fighting on the way in while we were battered and depleted, but a literal cavalry of paladins showed up to fight them off (after my character had been ganked by an invisible assassin for dramatic effect) and offer us mounts to get to the final confrontation.
When it gets ANNOYING is when the DM sets it up so the PCs have no chance from the start so they can show off their OC, Drizz't SonGoku.
Guest Author's Note: "While the story scenario on this page comes out of the 'Tales of the Jedi' comic ('Ulic Qel-Droma and the Beast Wars of Onderon'), the game scenario is roughly based on a true story. I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to everyone who played in that game. (The bit about getting planet name puns from Wikipedia is also true, btw)."
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