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I'm DMing in Ravenloft and often use ideas from PF in my game. One of them is Carrion Crown, of course, of which I took many parts to insert in my game, the chase after the Whispering Way to prevent their ritual being one.
But I loved the idea of RMD, and that is now in my campaign's planning.
In my RL game, Tar-Baphon's spirit was banished from the land of the mists centuries ago. The heroes that killed him banished his spirit out of the mists, instead of destroying it fully. So this evil lich spirit that was too strong to be destroyed wandered strange planes of the multiverse until it saw a planet it decided to check: Earth. Tar-Baphon thus arrived in Russia, 1912, and used the body of a wandering spiritual monk to spread evil, and he got very close to the Russian royal family. Guess who? Rasputin of course! Rasputin (the mad monk) is Tar-Baphon's current vessel.
He got enemies and he was killed in a grotesque manner: poisoned, gunned and drowned... There were at the time rumors he was unkillable, and that his corpse was still moving when they retrieved it from the river.
What differs from our own Earth story is that Tar-Baphon's spirit was too strong, and the monk indeed came back from death ...
In Siberia, Rasputin lead a faction of supporters in a bloody war against soldiers of the people (the "Reds") and gained control of a secret prison camp.
So mean and ruthless were his orders that soon Rasputin/Tar-Baphon was snatched back in the mists (in Ravenloft), in the form of an island in the mists made to look like Russia...
That is the domain where the players are now: Siberia, in February 1918 (local time)!
What's next? Rasputin must die! I'm having fun so far!
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For the foreign language discussion, I had made a quick sheet of French(my mother tongue)-Russian phrases, that I thought the local people were going to be using when meeting the PCs *, and having Google translate as a quick on-the-spot complement.
So I was able to speak this foreign language through the mouth of local people, until they learned a few words / cast tongues.
* ex: Help! (pomogite!), assassin (ubiytsa), do not kill me (ne ubivay menya!), (and the best one I think when 1918 Russian face D&D characters) are you from a circus?( Vy iz tsirka ?), etc.
Fun :)
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We've done the intro so far and the troop mechanics works very well.
The only thing I've said to my players: "this is a new PF mechanic, called a Troop. It works like a swarm, but it is large, and is composed of about 20 soldiers that uses one save, etc. When you "kill" it, you assume most are dead, the rest fleeing." and the rest, they discovered when facing them.
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Later, when RMD will be finished, I'll post the link to my campaign journal, for those interested.
These are great ideas. I would be interested in how it turns out.
For those interested in reading how it turned out, please see sessions 65 (when they jump in the gate to Siberia) to 72 (Rasputin is dead) in these links :
http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/TheVeranda/Joels_Campaign_Session_55-66. pdf
http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/TheVeranda/Joels_Campaign_Session_67-72. pdf
Joël
The second link doesn't work ... ?
Sorry for the delay. Here's the second link again :
http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/TheVeranda/Joels_Campaign_Session_67-72. pdf
Don't know why, the board add a space juste before "pdf". Remove it.
Joël