So our scouring of the tower was a single EC against the Tower itself (I'm not sure if Russ ever named its ability - probably something like 'Sinister 18w') with the vampire a mere part of the tower's weapons. Sounds like you could run the krashkid cavern the same way.
The episode worked for me, and it impressed me just how flexible HW really was, and how intangible 'atmospherics' could generate real contests. A humakti who will face three or four lunars without batting an eyelid takes serious pause when he knows he might show fear and run in front of his mates.
So perhaps give your cavern temple a Scary 10w2, use this as your main EC, and use cave ins, rumblings and kid attacks as part of its devices. A crit fear attack might be a cave in, a major victory a kid kiss etc. And of course serious defeats for the players mean outbreaks of gibbering under boulders, running away for a round or two, clenching legs together or having to change into a corduroy kilt. Watch 'em start spending heaps of EPs on their 'Brave'. :)
Two clacks and a greasy bolg...
John
The flowers cover everything
They cover over everything
(Amanita is the name)
The flowers cover everything.
>
> >The scene is the following:
> >the heroes are fleeing from an underground Krarshti
> >temple: they have desecrated it and it starts to
> >crumble.
> >
> >The minions of the Goddess (krarshtkids) await them
> >and ambush them on their way to the surface.
> >
> >BUT
> >
> >I'd like to give them the impression that the real
> >danger is the crumbling cave and tunnels, not the
> >krarshtkids.
>
> If the real danger is the collapsing tunnels, then that needs to be the
> main contest. I can see doing this one of three ways...
>
> (1) Just describe it. If they haven't reached such and such a point after
> so many actions, they're dead. Otherwise, the roof collapses just behind
> the last one out.
>
> (2) Simple contests. Every action they take is followed by a simple
contest
> against "Crush heroes to death". I'd start that low (6? 12? Depends on
your
> characters) as most heroes won't have anything terribly stunning to resist
> with, but I'd increase it by, say, 5 every time. I'd also tell the players
> what I'm rolling against.
>
> (3) Extended contest. The Krashti become the minor distraction - fighting
> them is a simple contest, as for any other unrelated action. Don't make
'em
> too hard - simple contests kill quicker than extended! Again, I'd start
the
> "Crush Heroes" skill quite low (maybe not so low, though) but give it
> *lots* of APs. Justify it as the contest is against this rock, plus all
its
> follower rocks. Then, I might slowly crank up the rating. Depends if I
> wanted to reach the point where heroes were definatly going to die if they
> haven't already escaped.
>
> Personally, I've only ever used number 1 in similar situations. But then,
> I'm the guy who finds Hero Wars a bit rules heavy...
>
> Cheers,
> Graham
>
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