[Gold & Appel Inc]

Originally Posted by joppeknol

Hello,

Hey.

Originally Posted by joppeknol

I'm currently preparing my first GURPS campaign. It will be a yrth campain based up on the 'secrets' in the megalos section of the Banestorm book. It will take some time before I'll really start (our group is currently playing with another member as GM), but I'm trying to plan ahead as much as possible.

With you so far. :)

Originally Posted by joppeknol

The group is used to free form characters and normally play in a bit humorous style.

I'm going to refer back to this part later.

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The idea is that the emperor is moving to create a portal between his original dimension and yrth. He can then move all his collegues to yrth very fast and destroy the world (as is the expected behavior of a well-educated demon).

So this guy with a demonstrated interest in gathering and having power over people in a fairly organized fashion just suddenly gets a wild hair up his butt to scrap it all?

Originally Posted by joppeknol

1) The skull of cuthumulhu: This demon, a collegue, was slain a few hundres years ago with a silver sword that negated his regenerative abilities in the northlands and put in a tomb sealed with silver. Unfortunately a group of giants opened the tomb and are now slowly being corrupted by the power of the skull. The skull is needed to connect to the right hell dimension.

Everything about this part is awesome. I'd like my C'thulhu cultists bigger, please.

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2) The chain of thracie. This chain is used to keep a gate to another world open. It is not from this world, but currently used by Glimpse of Falling Leaves to connect to a 2005-no mana modern earth in order to grab technology to get supreme power in Sahud.

Wait, what? GOFL has the bomb now? Nerve gas? This is going to spill way past Sahud and change the setting a lot...

Originally Posted by joppeknol

3) The banestorm 'garland'. A kind of a golden circle with scultured leaves. It was used by the dark elves, to fuel the spell that started the banestorm. It is a ako super powerstone with the limitation that all stored energy must be used in one spell (e.g. use it to throw a fireball and now you have to throw a 4000fp fireball.). There is now way of telling how much energy is contained in it. It is somewhere in the ruins of an old elven city in the great desert and guarded by a cult of fanatic dark elves.

This part feels kind of DFy.. Wouldn't the Dark Elves put a limiting enchantment on something that powerful that makes it usable by Elves only? And why just guard it, instead of try to use it for something?

Originally Posted by joppeknol

How to obtain these things: You take some unknown adventurers, give the a magical object-finder device, and send them on their way.

If the stakes are that high, why not get the greatest heroes of the realm to do this? (They can still be 150 points, if most people have less)

Originally Posted by joppeknol

PC's are (unspecified) 150 cp Caithness people with a loyalty to king Conall. After some adventuring in the civil war, they are too well-known and hated by the opposition and Conall gives them the mission of going to Megalos City and find out what is happening there.

Here we go, if these guys are loyal citizens of Caithness with a vested interest in the current status quo, you can easily scale back the antagonist goal from "Destroy the World!" to "Conquer the world (under the banner of Megalos)..." At first they think that the Emperor is on his McGuffin quest for normal power-lusty reasons like conquering Caithness, and then later they discover the ultimate horrible truth. That is, of course, assuming that your players go for your proposed set-up. Didn't you say that they like free-form characters with a bit of a humorous style earlier?

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[*]Most important: Why do the PC's carry out these assignments

If these guys don't like railroading, we can't really give you good advice for how to railroad them.

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after they find out how powerful these items are (especially the third). My best idea is to have them contacted by Jordan Siegebreaker who also sees it as an opportunity to unmask the emperor.

If the item isn't magically locked to Dark Elves, maybe it can only be used under certain very limited conditions ("When the stars are right"), which would explain why it hasn't been used already if its location is known.