We came up with "The Stones of Yuthuppa", which were originally used
in the Bat's creation! (I know that's probably complete crap, but it
suits us!).
Anyway, it gave the PC's a lot of stuff to do in the middle of a huge
battle!(Still didn't really do much to the bat though!)
Scott
>
> --- In whitewall_at_yahoogroups.com, "Oliver D. Bernuetz"
> <bernuetz_at_m...> wrote:
> >
> > Too true. Unless you go with Steve's notion of needing an
enormous
> > iron spearhead or other weapon to help defeat the Bat. In which
> case
> > it'd be pretty central. Plus it's something the PCs could do.
> >
> All I'm trying to do is come up with ideas which get PCs involved,
> something other than raiding camps, watching walls or running
> blockades. Not every game has HQ superbowl contenders hob-nobbing
> with Broyan etc. Bog men are a must and the idea of the Uz using
enlo
> to go diving and losing some in my original post was just a cheap
way
> of getting them there.
> An enormous iron spearhead made from from a spark from Orlanth's
> weapons/armour IMO seems like a reasonable way for non HQ superbowl
> contenders to do harm to the Bat. A GM manipulated boost if you
will.
> Also the irony of the Lunar's big gun being zapped by a fragment
left
> from a previous scrap of Orlanth's appeals to me (poetic justice
and
> all that).
> I'll write up a couple of cameos around a group of PCs getting
iron,
> one directly from the bog, the other from the Lunars after they've
> done the dirty work. No stats just skill usage. I'll also re-vamp
my
> original post adding notes to explain my thinking.
> Unless the concensus is, this is not workable. In which case I'll
> start thinking about something else :)
> Steve