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Originally Posted by industrialchild
That would be a great decision Murak! That would definitely go a long way to making the leaping over the pits less attractive.
I GM'd our first game of the Summoning with my mother and brother as players. As you mentioned Murak, they were quick to jump over the pits, but even so, they got smoked by the cultists...:D Even though I was a GM, since this was a one shot, I didn't feel the least bit bad about "playing to win" as the cultists!
Now, I have more experience with TFT than they do at the moment, I did see some things they probably could have done better, but they enjoyed your scenario enough to want to play it again and that's always a great sign! I get the strong impression, Murak, that this is a scenario that you designed somewhere within the realm of 3-4 PCs playing. Am I correct in assuming this? While I think it's possible for 2 PCs to win your scenario, there is little room for error on their parts as this is written.
I'm going to try and figure a way to scale the difficulty down a bit regarding the NPCs for 1-2 PC counts and plug in what you have in mind for the pits in the future and get back to you on this.
All in all, I'm super impressed with your work Murak and I'm beyond happy that you decided to share this with the community! Personally, I think it's good enough to warrant publishing! I'm not kidding!
The Hexagram magazine just met it's final stretch goal a day ago! So there will be a 2nd Hexagram zine for TFT in the future. After you've done your due diligence to refine this scenario more and continue to get feedback so you can make this the best you possibly can; I would STRONGLY urge you to submit it directly to Steve Jackson for maybe a spot in the next Hexagram issue!!! I feel that strongly about this and have loved it thus far!
I just downloaded the 2nd scenario that you kindly shared and I'm looking forward to playing that also and reporting back to you! Thanks again Murak!
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Thank you for the kind words. I'm so glad TFT is back!
I ran through The Summoning twice last night. The first time, I had the following:
Swordsman: ST 12, DX 12(9) IQ 8 MA 10; Leather, Lg Shield, Broadsword. Notable talent: Running
Crossbowguy: ST 12 DX 10(12) IQ 10 MA 10; Light Crossbow, Dagger. Talents - Missile Weapons (x2), Toughness
Hammer: ST 14, DX 10, IQ 8, MA 10 Great Hammer
Mace: ST 11 DX 13(11) IQ 8 MA 8; Leather Armor, Mace, Small Shield
Swordsman charged up, engaged both cultist guards. Crossbow slowly advanced, firing when he could. Mace moved up to assist Swordsman, and Hammer charged forward, leaping over the pit to try to break up the ritual.
Unfortunately, Hammer had some bad luck, and was not able to disrupt the scenario. In the end, they defeated the cultists and the Spawn, with only one dead character.
For my second playthough, I replaced Hammer and Mace with two elf clones
ST 10, DX 14, IQ 8, MA 14 - No armor, Hammer, Running talent.
This time, both elves charged and jumped over the pit, and with their higher DX, they were able to disrupt the ritual. In the end, we won; Swordsman died, one of the cultists fled, but we got the cult leader and saved the Lord Governor's son.
So, having a group optimized for speed and high dex makes this scenario easy. Wizards with summoned wolves (or illusions of wolves) would also make this easy. I think going with the 3-hex wide pit will definitely balance this out.