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4 years ago ::
Mar 10, 2009 - 10:01PM
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I may have to throw my hat in the ring on this one!
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4 years ago ::
Mar 10, 2009 - 11:52PM
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This... should be fun.  So, do we have to provide encounters, stuff like that?
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4 years ago ::
Mar 11, 2009 - 2:33AM
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- Biohazard Barbie, on sale now!
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Title: Uprising
3-5 Characters of Levels 4-7
DELIVERY MEN: The PCs have been travelling on the road for many weeks with the four sacks they are to deliver to the head of the Merchant Guild in fair . The Wedding his Son to the daughter of a rival house is immanent and they must deliver before the wedding. The city is a corrupt cesspool filled with the best and the worst kinds of diversions. On arrival they find their weapons siezed by the City Watch. All but Daggers and Rapiers are confiscated.
THE INVITE: Having Made Delivery to a small shop (a dressmakers) they are invited (being trusted fellows that the Merchant who employed them would like to meet) to the Wedding. They will be expected to provide gifts of good value and dress in fine attire so baths all round.
THE WEDDING: At the post wedding Party, they meet their Employer and he greets them and hopes they enjoy themselves before moving on to the rest of the crowd (Dancing skills at the ready).
THE MURDER OF THE GROOM: As the Wedding Couple make for a Transport Palanquin the Groom is struck by a Pomegranate. Enhanced with a Specialized Magic Missile, the fruit has become a weapon that kills. The assailant (apparently a little street urchin) flees. But the Damage is done and the Groom is dead.
THE MERCHANTS FURY: Outraged at the murder of his son, The Merchant assassinates a member of the bride's family as a likely suspect (a minor Wizard).
BLOOD IN THE STREETS: The Conflict continues to escalate into acts of Terrorism perpetrated by both sides until there is an angry crowd gathered in the central market being spoken to by the Patrician. He is shouted down with a hail of Pomegranates (a few magic missile enhanced). Forced to retreat, he sends in his troops to disperse the crowds and find the ringleaders.
Leading the crowd are hoodlums carrying the sacks delivered by the PCs. They break out a huge number of Weapons contained within the four Bags of Holding. They arm the Peasants and Lead them against the Patricians guards (Soldiers with Polearms and Padded Shirts).
The PCs can Lead the crowd, try and stop the Massacre, or they can flee the city (they did smuggle in the weapons).
AFTERMATH: The PCs will be implicated as the smugglers of Weapons (with or without their knowledge they are going to hang). Unless they can Kill the Patrician with their army of Peasants, they must flee the City.
The Citadel Megadungeon: http://yellowdingosappendix.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/the-citadel-mega-dungeon-now-with-room.html
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4 years ago ::
Mar 11, 2009 - 3:43AM
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For optional element 10, is it specifically TWO feuding families/whatevers? or is it more like "two or more"?.
I would say two or more would be fine. (If you have three, you necessarily have two). Similarly, a store of abaci would meet the abacus element, even though it says "an" abacus. What say the other judges?
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4 years ago ::
Mar 11, 2009 - 3:44AM
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So, do we have to provide encounters, stuff like that?
See Required Element C.
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4 years ago ::
Mar 11, 2009 - 3:44AM
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Yellowdingo draws first blood! The entry list is updated!
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4 years ago ::
Mar 11, 2009 - 7:27PM
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In the MDMC there was a standing limit on which books to be used. With the XDMC I've looked hard to see if there are any such limits and have found none. This the PH2 coming out some of the classes seem to fit my NPC's better then the PH classes.Are books other then the "Core 3" usable?
All the Best,
Nani?
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4 years ago ::
Mar 11, 2009 - 9:07PM
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I would say two or more would be fine. (If you have three, you necessarily have two). Similarly, a store of abaci would meet the abacus element, even though it says "an" abacus. What say the other judges?
For the feuding families (or towns, tribes, etc), I would say that it is indeed fine if there are more than just two. However, I will warn that adding more than two greatly increases the complexity of the situation, so it would be much more difficult to pull off. It might be very worthwhile, but I think trying to describe a feud between three factions could demand as much as three times the amount of description and detail as a feud between two factions.
Also, for the record, this requirement does explicitly state that it is a feud between two groups, not individuals. A squabble between two people does not qualify unless it snowballs into something much bigger than that for clear reasons. Also, not all conflicts necessarily fall under the idea of a "feud", though the definition of a feud can be very flexible. For example, full scale warfare between two city states is far too severe and destructive to be called a feud, and a friendly rivalry between two merchant's guilds is not spiteful enough, but almost anything in between may qualify (depending on specifics of course).
I hope I am not discussing this more than I should, but I would prefer to avoid having to penalize someone's score just because we are using different definitions. I know how annoying that can be.
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4 years ago ::
Mar 12, 2009 - 1:49AM
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I hope I am not discussing this more than I should, but I would prefer to avoid having to penalize someone's score just because we are using different definitions. I know how annoying that can be.
On the contary, I apprieate the fact that your try to avoid penalizing someone's score because of different definitions and applaud the effort.
All the Best,
Nani?
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4 years ago ::
Mar 12, 2009 - 3:46AM
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I agree, TB. I think your clarification was excellent.
As to Nani?'s question, ther is no limit to the official material you may use.. However, your Clarity score may suffer if you don't appropriately state from which sourcebook you get a class, creature, power, etc.
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