12-27-2015, 12:41 PM
I keep a Player calendar and the party was outside on the 25th day of the 12th month, so I improvised. Santa's description was lifted from a web site for a 3.5e deity from my phone browser during the session. I also used the "Holy Shrine" from the web-site's description. The result of the lack thereof was my idea.
Well I can't comment on the reactions of my Players. At least they didn't ignore the pony. Otherwise they would have got no points at all instead of half of 35 divided by 2 NPCs. (Oh, they're NPCs I should divide by half again.)
Nothing special about the Pony. A random "Beast of Burden: Pony" was rolled up on the Hills: Subarctic column (since it was Winter.) I simply called it "Wild" since it was out in the open. Part of the charm of HackMaster is the amount of paranoia generated by what may appear to be mundane creatures because they may be monsters. Sometimes throwing in a real mundane creature can cause a party to waste a fireball on the harmless.
The bat was an Azmyth Bat. Just another bat on the multi-column entry for bats in the Hacklopaedia Volume I. I added the manual's text description as a picture for you with 4 needful vitals as a comment. As you can see, the real failure here was to "befriend" the bat. But again my Players didn't know this and the likely-hood of then reading this Forum is small, even as an ex-post facto disappointment.
Well I can't comment on the reactions of my Players. At least they didn't ignore the pony. Otherwise they would have got no points at all instead of half of 35 divided by 2 NPCs. (Oh, they're NPCs I should divide by half again.)
Nothing special about the Pony. A random "Beast of Burden: Pony" was rolled up on the Hills: Subarctic column (since it was Winter.) I simply called it "Wild" since it was out in the open. Part of the charm of HackMaster is the amount of paranoia generated by what may appear to be mundane creatures because they may be monsters. Sometimes throwing in a real mundane creature can cause a party to waste a fireball on the harmless.
The bat was an Azmyth Bat. Just another bat on the multi-column entry for bats in the Hacklopaedia Volume I. I added the manual's text description as a picture for you with 4 needful vitals as a comment. As you can see, the real failure here was to "befriend" the bat. But again my Players didn't know this and the likely-hood of then reading this Forum is small, even as an ex-post facto disappointment.
Tracy Johnson
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