Haerandir Posted March 13 Report Share Posted March 13 On 2/17/2024 at 6:10 PM, Christopher R Taylor said: Its not enormously grandiose but one of my favorite scenarios Hero published was in the 4th edition Viper book, and it goes like this. A celebrity who has a chain of restaurants* opens one in The City. Viper comes over with a powerful flying ship and uses gravity control to rip the entire building, including all the dignitaries and celebrities inside, and hang it in the air. Then VIPER demands all of them pay a ransom or they will drop the building. Obviously destroying or damaging the ship will cause the same result. I once played in a campaign where this was the initial session. Bonus points to VIPER in that the big event at the restaurant was the official reception for us being welcomed as the new hero team for the city. I felt that was bold. After the session, the GM told us they'd brought along a weapon specifically calibrated to target our brick's weakness, but because he kept trying and failing to break through the hatches in the flying ship, giving up and moving on to the next one, the crew spent the entire fight laboriously hauling the weapon from hatch to hatch, only to set it up and hear that he'd switched hatches again. They were quite put out. In a later session, we were raiding a VIPER base in South America, and they had lined the entire wall of the base with this same weapon, only to have him simply leap over the wall before they even realized he was there. This had the effect of making him enemy #1 for the entire organization. They were gonna tag him with a 'zero-zone projector' if it was the last thing they did, dagnabbit! Christopher R Taylor and Steve 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted March 13 Report Share Posted March 13 Quote After the session, the GM told us they'd brought along a weapon specifically calibrated to target our brick's weakness, but because he kept trying and failing to break through the hatches in the flying ship, giving up and moving on to the next one, the crew spent the entire fight laboriously hauling the weapon from hatch to hatch, only to set it up and hear that he'd switched hatches again. They were quite put out. See, he probably thought he was losing that effort, but it was actually a hidden win Haerandir 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sailboat Posted March 19 Report Share Posted March 19 Back a couple of decades ago, I had a neo-Confederate group try to start a second US Civil War. At that time it seemed far-fetched. Lord Liaden, Haerandir, Gauntlet and 1 other 1 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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