Johannes replied to me: > > First, how do you make sure that the credit goes to one man, not > > the entire group? > > > > - There are several victims. The players (and PCs) know that > > there is a very very important person among the VIPs, but > > not which one. Afterwards, fudge it that the NPC saved by > > Tribunus is the important one. > > I guess i can even do it, without them knowing that there is a VIP. The > pcs most likely will save lower class damsels in distress too. If the > party saves a party of damsels and only one gets the credit, because the > other damsels were lesser damsels, this has a bad ring to it, especially > if i want the patron to be a virtuous patron.
Oh, you don't have to ignore the others. See, TRIBUNUS and his pals were in a position to save Traian and his friends, and TRIBUNUS had to keep Traian's head over the water, and Tribunus' henchmen saved Traian's friends, and they're all very grateful, here are bags of money for everyone (same amount in each), and Traian invited them ALL to his villa, and publicly thanked TRIBUNUS and his assistants. What was it, Irgun, Inga, something like that. Especially if Tribunus really had to take the greatest personal risk. > Ideal would be some challange, where Tribunus doing is would be the > obvious tactical choice, but unfortunatly he is pretty much the most > balanced pc, sort of second best in everything. Do you use hexgrid maps? Position is everything, and you can play a shell game with NPCs which are out of sight. Make Tribunus and nobody else stand in the doorway where the mad bull comes. The other PCs guard the other doorways. > > - Synois hires them to escort her to the auction of a rare > > book. Once there, the PCs are flabbergasted how much Synois > > is prepared to offer (being unable to steal it, she turned > > all her previous booty into cash) until they realize which > > book it is. Either she rides with the book into the sunset, > > or something happens to destroy the book in view of all > > interested parties, or the PCs turn on Synois, get the book, > > and learn the truth. > > She buying it and stealing the money back would be nicer. I'd just need an > idea how to do that. It's so much easier to GM NPCs who are not supposed > to be all that competent at what they do. Ideally it would require an > investigation by the pcs afterwards, but would leave a face saving way of > letting her go, if they find out it had been her. The investigation shows it was a case of conned conmen. Synois was just more clever than the others, but no more dishonest. > It is the villian, who had hired a mock Ingrun to cat burglar the > candidates house and gut the candidate in his bed. > > So my idea is to have rough representation of crime scene, with the > villian in the place of the victim, and Ingruns of different quality > trying to reach him facing challanges similiar to the real Ingrun > peronating assassin. (the assassin is already dead, so i can't use him > here) Does it have to be an actual representation of the scene, or a symbolic one? Get the villain into a toga which he can't take off (sewn shut with sturdy cloth), with extra long hems, and have a couple of gladiators in the same armor (Ingrun's style) chase him. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
