Have you ever had a campaign with an aboveground building adventure site, that they didn't at least talk about burning down? I mean, they gotta talk about it, right? ;)
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Actually did it once in a campaign. Hey, man, the place was infested with vampires. It was the only way to be sure. How were we supposed to have known they had invisible coffins hidden in the old wagon out back?
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I played in a second edition game where the party tried to broker a peace with goblins and then the goblins ended up burning down a village. The village was sort of men
"Man has a love for fire. Napalm, white phosphorus, promethium, oil, gasoline, meltas, plasmas, firestorms, incendiaries, firepower, fireline, flamethrower, fireteam, firefighter, the flames of war, fire, fire, fire. What else could be said to have benefited as much from man as fire? What other element has been defended, nursed, tutored, fed, and loved more than fire? Our cities, our books, our people, our enemies, our friends, our dead, our living, our greatest works and most heinous feats; all of them, fed to the ever hungry flames, and there it is. Years of brilliant minds worked on that one. For warfare, for country, for humanity? No. We wanted to see what fire, raw unchained flame, could do."
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Had it in reverse once.
Party is supposed to defend the NPC in the building while the wizard continues to summon waves of monsters. Friend playing the NPC said "Why the hell would I do that? I've a 20 INT!" SO he summoned lots of monsters and had them ready to attack anything that left. Last creatures summoned? Fire elementals.
Pretty much every time.
I'm running Rise of the Runelords right now, and they...
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So, back to Spanky... the answer is a resounding "No."
Pretty much every time.
I'm running Rise of the Runelords right now, and they...
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Had a Shadowrun game where every mission involved us finding a way to topple a building to complete our mission. It was kind of comedic and the DM liked Futurama, so there was often an Orphanarium in the area as well, which of course we didn't really care too much about. Some of them took some work to include toppling a building.
Not really burning though. I guess when the military tried to nuke us, that was kinda like fire.
Now that I think about it, I think we burned the Graul place down in our first run through Runelords as well. But that was after we went in, and we had good reason. *shudder*
Yeah. The Graul Farm really deserves a good burning.
Graul's shack is a health hazard.
The more I hear about that place the more terrified I become.
Mostly because ROTRL is on the docket for my group after Kingmaker and CoT are done.
Let's just say I'm......happy it's behind me.
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We Murder
We Pillage
We Plunder
When we have aqcuired all our spoils
then we set the complex ablaze
unless we can find a valid use for it
The more I hear about that place the more terrified I become.
Mostly because ROTRL is on the docket for my group after Kingmaker and CoT are done.
You have no idea how wonderfully charming and rustic them thair hillbillies are. Jes' some innocent country folk doin' what needs doin'. Yep. If'n yer lucky, yer "face" will get himself invited to some one on one time with the clan matriarch. ;-)
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We Murder
We Pillage
We Plunder
When we have aqcuired all our spoils
then we set the complex ablaze
unless we can find a valid use for it
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So, here's my thinking
1) light the building on fire
2) about 50% of the....things in there....storm out and attack you all at once
3) everything of value is damaged and destroyed
4) there's this.....massive plume of smoke that can be seen 30 miles away. The "curious by nature" are now en route.
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The players in my longest running campaign thus far actually started a cult devoted to a fire deity.
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The sad part is that if there were a wandering moster table for the graul farm that included 'honey boo boo" i'd probably just assume she was one of the graul...
The more I hear about that place the more terrified I become.
Mostly because ROTRL is on the docket for my group after Kingmaker and CoT are done.
You have no idea how wonderfully charming and rustic them thair hillbillies are. Jes' some innocent country folk doin' what needs doin'. Yep. If'n yer lucky, yer "face" will get himself invited to some one on one time with the clan matriarch. ;-)
That will probably be my crusader....
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"The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault."
The best part was by that point, you needed the qualifier.
Flooding and then freezing is the new in-thing.
One shadowrun game, we left a lot of dna and evidence around. So, my swamp alligator shaman brought up all the sewerage he could with the spirit's help as we left. Was so much better than fire.
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One of my players played two separate characters obsessed with fire.
Pele, the Shadowrun Mage who bound fire elemental after fire elemental and specialized in massive AoE fire spells. Once burned down a stadium, while a game was in progress, for a distraction.
And {I forgot the character's name} who worshipped Pelor the Demon of Sun. A fire-specc'd Psion/Kineticist who routinely started (and finished) bar fights with powers like energy wave, energy ball, and the like.
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"Pyromaniac Murder Hobos" would be an awesome name for a rock band...
Phat Loots, and their new album "Pyromaniac murder hobos". It will be followed by "Evil necromancer" with such tracks as "Corrupt noble" "Surly blacksmith" and "Arrogant elf".