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Old 09-25-2020, 08:51 PM   #3
Fred Brackin
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Default Re: Biggest enemy and/or battle you’ve encountered?

The Low Tech Award goes to Errol Flynnbuck, Lost Prince of the Halflings who roused about a hundred of his subjects to repel a goblin invasion of a thousand or more.

A master of halfling motivation he once proclaimed "We shall attack the goblin camp at suppertime!"<beat> "We shall eat early." <crowd cheers>

The key engagement was an ambush in a pass with halfling slingers on the slopes and Errol's biggish friends blocking the roadway. The golblins charged thinking they could get through before the slingers did too much damage. Alas for them one of Errol's friends named Sigrid had a Horn of Mass Panic. This was in addition to the horns on her helmet. She waited until just before the goblins would be in melee range and blew the Horn.

Saves were handled on a percentage basis and very few goblins saved. Half of the ones who did save failed regular morale checks when everyone else ran away and the few remaing barely gave Sigrid a good workout.

The Ground Combatant Award goes to a group in a Space Opera I ran where some aliens known as the Ribbitish were trying to break into this forerunner instalation my players had discovered the location of in a very old issue of Scientific Forerunner.

The Ribbitish had a from 2 TLs ago Continental Siege Unit but my room-mate who introduced me to rpgs and got all this started had a small state of the art nuclear weapon in his backpack. He'd acquired it during chargen and kept his mouth shut about it and even in the 40 years since then I have never seen a PC group freak out like that one did he used it.

The Award for the Unlimited Weight Class category goes to the same group a little later who had built an _extremely_ dubious ship they called a "Merchant Escort Cruiser" and named The Sweet Transvestite. It was armed to about 2 notches past the legal limit for civilians. It massed 225,000 tons and it did indeed blow up some stuff with its' disguised and oversized main batteries.

For some reason it's all been much smaller spaceships since then. :)
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