Since our party finally escaped from a pyramid in the Sea of Dust with a flying boat, we've decided our next move is...
Since our party finally escaped from a pyramid in the Sea of Dust with a flying boat, we've decided our next move is to take revenge on the Dwellers of the Forbidden City. We barely escaped with our lives a few levels ago. The bugbears, yuan ti, the dragon, the bullywugs...all gonna get a beating.
I love revenge missions. About five years ago, I was playing in a B/X D&D megadungeon campaign in NYC with tons of players, only some of whom would generally show up for any particular session, due to varying schedules.
ReplyDeleteI was involved in one session with a relatively small number of players, where we were ambushed by gnolls on the 2nd level of the dungeon. They wrecked us. Only one PC -- a higher-level guy with a decent collection of magic items -- made it out alive; the other three were all killed, including my 3rd level fighter (who had become a fairly well-loved goofball character in short order).
The next session, in which practically all of the other PCs in the game (over a dozen) all organized and mobilized on the gnolls with a well-planned and executed assault, was a thing of beauty. I think every single one of the gnolls were wiped out (with no casualties on the PC side), and it was a big tribe. Lots of "save it for a rainy day" scrolls and items were broken out for that attack. There were much fewer random encounters in the upper levels of that dungeons for quite a while after that.
Sometimes dungeon crawls really do generate cool stories.
We endured a long list of indignities in the Forbidden City.
ReplyDeleteThree PCs killed by a huge Yuan Ti patrol upon entering the city.
My PC captured, only surviving by being a convincingly creepy and smooth talking warlock.
My PC barely escaped, but with an implanted suggestion that there was easy pickings to the east (it was a dragon the Yuan-ti wanted to get rid of.)
We met the dragon and got our asses kicked and barely got away, again, by smooth talk.
Snuck into the city and tried to ally with the bugbears against the yuan-ti. The chief swore he wouldn’t hurt us. Then pulled a “I only swore I wouldn't attack you. Kill them my minions!” that we barely escaped from.
After that we said, “fuck it,” and got out of dodge with more yuan-ti on our heels.
Oh, and some mongrelmen stole a bunch of shit from us too.
"I hate the Forbidden City."
ReplyDeleteMan that sounds fun.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds really fun to me, especially the upcoming revenge assault. That my friends is what we call emergent game play.
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