RE: Re: Bat-Blat from Jeff Richard on 2004-03-20 (Whitewall)

From: Jeff Richard <richj_at_...>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 20:01:17 -0800

I think there should be plenty of opportunities for players (not NPCs) to affect aspects of the outcome. Are the players Colymar? Well it is up to them whether they can free their lost kin and ancestors. The players' actions will help determine how many of the defenders die fighting the Bat Guards, etc.

The big picture stuff we should determine - but still leave plenty of chances for player driven results. Big picture: Orlanth is manifest, the Bat gets whacked, the Lunars suffer a major defeat that Tatius manages to exploit by raising the stakes.

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Sent:	Fri Mar 19 19:01:29 2004
To:	whitewall_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject:	Re: Bat-Blat

Douglas, responding to Jeff:
> > So do we free the Runegate souls or not?
> > I'd like that to be a possibility - maybe
> > even a heroquest that players can be
> > involved in.
>
> That is something that should stay open ended.
> It isn't critical to the story, so there is no
> need to make this a point of canon.

Can't we use the same approach for the results of the Bat-Blat? It is one of those heroquest challenge thingies that Greg goes on about. We could have results like:

Complete or major Victory: Bat dies
Marginal Victory: Bat is driven off; it kills lunars on the way
Tie: Bat is driven off
Defeat: Bat kills lots of Orlanthi, then is driven off

Something like that anyway.

Chris Lemens

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