 Harlequin's Back, Thoughts, ideas, headache inducers? |
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 May 18 2005, 03:55 AM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 571 Joined: 9-January 05 From: In the 9th circle of hell Member No.: 6,950  |
So, I'm going to be running my group through Harlequin's Back soon, as I posted in another thread. This got me thinking, so here goes.
How many of you have played HB? Was it fun? Any good stories? Just wondering how fellow dumpshockers felt about this book. Any fun sudjestions on how to give everyone a headache? :vegm: Or make them all roll around laughing? |
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 May 18 2005, 04:03 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
Behold, for God (in his mortal guise of Neuron Basher, and others) has provided the Search function. Yea, though you walk through the valley of the shadow of past threads, you will fear no evil, lest it be one of us coming up behind you and smacking you with a rolled-up newspaper like a bad puppy for not checking first...
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May 18 2005, 04:03 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,102 Joined: 23-March 04 From: The Grizzly Grunion, in a VIP room. Member No.: 6,191 |
This is kinda unrelated to the adventure, but Harlequin is a fairly funny dude. I've been toying with the idea of making him do stuff to the PCs and making the PCs do stuff that would amuse me. Just random, fun, non-sequitor odd jobs that will have them scratching their heads, wondering what it all means. Plus, after encountering Harley, they'll be looking over their shoulder. Especially if they can't figure that there's no sense to be made from all the bizarre odd jobs.
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May 18 2005, 04:05 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 571 Joined: 9-January 05 From: In the 9th circle of hell Member No.: 6,950 |
I did. This computer pumps out an error every time I try. It's an older and very crappy IMAC, the decent computers are in use. :-) Edit: Checked on a serch, couldn't find much that pertained to this, which thread were you refering to? This post has been edited by Mortax: May 18 2005, 04:18 AM |
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May 18 2005, 04:07 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 571 Joined: 9-January 05 From: In the 9th circle of hell Member No.: 6,950 |
I'm sending my players on a run soon for Harly where they have to deliver a birthday present to Alachia. A tarrot deck, all the cards are "Queen of Thorns" |
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May 18 2005, 04:09 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,102 Joined: 23-March 04 From: The Grizzly Grunion, in a VIP room. Member No.: 6,191 |
Refresh my memory. Alachia...?
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May 18 2005, 04:18 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 571 Joined: 9-January 05 From: In the 9th circle of hell Member No.: 6,950 |
Imortal elf, once queen of bloodwood. silly blood elves :-) |
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May 18 2005, 04:19 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Blaspheme not the holy Mac of i. What's the error? ~J |
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May 18 2005, 04:21 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 571 Joined: 9-January 05 From: In the 9th circle of hell Member No.: 6,950 |
It just tuns out the "An error has occured on this page." Normally, I wouldn't blame the computer, but it is the only one that ever gives that error.
And that wasn't a statment against Imacs. :-) This one really is just crappy, even the IT director said so. And I think that guy has a Mac shrine in his bedroom. :-) |
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May 18 2005, 04:28 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
A Macintosh should never become a public computer. That's like pimping out Miss America and wondering at the blood, bruises, STDs and pregnancies.
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May 18 2005, 04:32 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 571 Joined: 9-January 05 From: In the 9th circle of hell Member No.: 6,950 |
It's just in the physics lounge, only about 6 people are ever in here, but including that we only have 3 computers.
Sigh, maybe more computers next year. |
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May 18 2005, 04:41 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,102 Joined: 23-March 04 From: The Grizzly Grunion, in a VIP room. Member No.: 6,191 |
Where do I sign? |
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May 18 2005, 05:23 AM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
I had Frosty as an active palyer in the game.
The best part was when the crone cast a 'Slay Human' spell at her, and threw a lot of spell pool in to it, and got this back... "I'm an ELF you slitch!" and blasted said crone with a fireball that actually took her out! Good times were had by all. a.k.a. - the benefits of the 'human looking' edge |
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May 18 2005, 02:08 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 21 Joined: 14-May 05 Member No.: 7,395 |
if you are going to run it, in response to your original topic, make damn sure that your players are damned experienced...
otherwise you will have them die half way through, OR you will find yourself on tip toes adjusting rolls/stats/and encounter numbers the whole time. |
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May 18 2005, 02:19 PM
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Freelance Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 7,324 Joined: 30-September 04 From: Texas Member No.: 6,714 |
Why don't you just go ahead and burn the character sheets before the game starts? |
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May 18 2005, 03:54 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 190 Joined: 24-October 04 Member No.: 6,787 |
[ Spoiler ]
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May 18 2005, 06:40 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 571 Joined: 9-January 05 From: In the 9th circle of hell Member No.: 6,950 |
Well, one of the char has gotten over 100 karma, so they should be okay there. As far as burning the char sheets, H set it up so they WOULDN'T get killed. Harly may be an ass, but I'm not sure I buy him sending a group he has some degree of respect for on a suicide mission. |
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May 18 2005, 07:18 PM
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The back-up plan Group: Retired Admins Posts: 8,423 Joined: 15-January 03 From: San Diego Member No.: 3,910 |
You may want to also check with your players to make sure they think their characters are the save the world type. Our group went in and had a lot of issues both IC and OOC because of the somewhat heavy handed approach that the module can take. Some people may not be interested in saving the world and their character who got sucked into this quest is now dragged across the metaplanes making sacrifices for causes he doesn't believe in and smacking the crap out of Harly every chance they can get, in each of his different incarnations.
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May 19 2005, 03:12 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 494 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Amazonia Member No.: 7,102 |
Well, I for one shouldn't have a problem with it. (Oh and Mortax, that's 151 karma :P) My character is from Amazonia, the 'Save the world' Capitol. He will Probibly be fine with the whole thing, since he likes going on Astral Quests (He's an Adept) and is intrigued by Harly, who seems to be a very powerful mage, and there is just something wierd about him. Anyway, also, if Nightshade finds out that the Azzy's have anything to do with the world's destruction, He will be all for trying to save it. Principle really. He doesn't like Azlan very much (Check ther sig down below)
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May 20 2005, 02:01 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 49 Joined: 29-January 05 From: San Diego, California Member No.: 7,032 |
You know a lot of people talk about how powerful Harlequin is but I'll tell you he is like the worst conjurer Evah ... Check it out
he then attempts to conjure a Force 8 water Elemental ... and Dies from the drain if you think I'm making this up check out SR1 page 87 ... its true , he's a gimp =P [Edit] forgot to add the little bit about the conjure attempt ...[/Edit] |
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May 20 2005, 02:04 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
So between SR1 and HB he gains at least fifty Initiate Grades. Good to know!
~J |
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May 20 2005, 02:10 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 49 Joined: 29-January 05 From: San Diego, California Member No.: 7,032 |
not to mention comes back to life and gets that sweet leather jacket we see him wearing in the Cyber-pirates book ... man I liked that Jacket 8)
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May 20 2005, 02:11 AM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
So you dropped the other random ganger campaign? Too bad, I liked my chica.
Ah well. You know our group. We can take on a lot of challenges that most groups can't. Unless of course you put some restrictions on the PCs that I'm not aware of. Then they may need just a tiny (very tiny) bit of help. :P |
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May 20 2005, 06:30 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 571 Joined: 9-January 05 From: In the 9th circle of hell Member No.: 6,950 |
Um, different Harlequin. :-) It says this in one of the Harlequin adventures, I'm not sure which one. I think it's the first. Also, I'm not sure that that guy was even an elf. Edit: Harlequin Adventure: Page 143
This post has been edited by Mortax: May 20 2005, 06:50 PM |
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May 20 2005, 09:05 PM
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Harlequin Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 331 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 861 |
Heh. This campaign is still all time favorite for both me and my players. I have tons of things that happened, but right now I don't have that much time so I'm just gonna give you a short one (behind spoiler tags for the players out there).
[ Spoiler ]
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