| Psykodemus |
The Guilty Party wrote:Again, BIIIIG ol' spoilers. If you're playing don't read this.
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Am I nuts? Does it need this? Anyone gotten this far and can comment?Personally, I despise it. If I were a player, losing everything we had spent 2 books working on with zero chance of preventing the loss would make me leave the game. Absolutely hate it and seriously wonder why this was approved. The BBEG attacking the party with a surprise attack and trying to steal the cards? That's good! Love a proactive enemy. But automatically stealing them comes off as GM undercutting the party.
My recommendation is to have the robbery happen, but the party can try and hold onto cards if they take actions to do so during the fight. This makes the fight more dynamic as they have to decide whether to spend actions on holding onto cards or dealing with the monsters. As high level PC's they'll have plenty of options as well, but the BBEG can still get away with a good chunk of them. The rest of the book can still happen too, so it doesn't invalidate the rest of the adventure.
I think this is a cool idea. Allowing the PCs to use their three actions to choose which of the three cards they want to hold while losing the two others they have invested should sting enough without taking away their favorites. I'll likely employ the idea and see how it goes.