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Post by indigoblack on Dec 24, 2014 3:32:43 GMT
We've all been there at some point. The Universe is aligned at the precise moment were everything falls perfectly into place and just goes right for either you or your group. Whether the dice are in your favor when you need them most, someone has come out on top as the underdog against all odds, or even accomplished something extraordinary these stories and many more go down as legends in your groups. What are some of these awesome moments that either you or your group has had?
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Post by stlaughter on Dec 28, 2014 6:27:01 GMT
One of my players committed fourth dimensional murder with a time-traveling train launched out of a spaceship's rail gun.
In my younger days, I must admit to a terrible weakness for things I deemed cool; I am also rather spineless when it comes to DMing for close personal friends. This was one such man, and we were playing a game of Deadlands: Lost Colony. A major part of the backstory is a villain named Stone killing all of Earth's heroes, ensuring apocalypse comes to pass and all is not well.
I had taken the players from the past- saving them from Stone- by use of a time traveling train. They had, through other adventures, figured out how to reconfigure the train to travel through space, and drove to the one alien planet Earth had colonized before the bombs fell. This planet had a spaceship hovering over it with a massive railgun, and the players used a shuttle to reach the spaceship and took it over, convincing the crew to mutiny and killing the officers in a gunbattle.
That was when my friend suggested killing Stone with the train, firing it through the railgun to give it oomph, and making it travel backwards in time as it went, to the moment when Stone was born, killing him before any of it could happen.
On reflection, my decision to let him do it- while born of weakness- was actually the right choice. There was no logical reason, under the setting, that it wouldn't work; even the main villains were not powerful enough to interfere with the train.
And so the party saved the world and, in the words of the man who thought it up, did it with a "fourth-dimensional murder train."
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