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Botched a session, wondering how to deal with it?

Started by mAcular Chaotic, November 27, 2017, 08:46:40 PM

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Dr. Ink'n'stain

#60
December 02, 2017, 06:35:15 AM
Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;1010791Death by Wild Hunt.

*sigh* I'ts never death by snu-snu..
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soltakss

#61
December 02, 2017, 10:16:34 AM
Quote from: mAcular Chaotic;1010789What kind of a reaction or punishment or ruling would fey make on someone who took an evil sword and swept through their forest killing a lot of forest folk and making them undead?

Enchant them so they treat theor friends and family as Fae, letting them kill them instead of Fae. When the enchantment breaks, they find they have killed all their friends, family, neighbours and townsfolk.

Have all the undead they have raised turn on them and hunt them down for the rest of their days.
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#62
December 02, 2017, 10:21:19 AM
Quote from: mAcular Chaotic;1010798Also, should whatever the punishment is have a chance of escape or success by the PC, basically making it into an encounter of sorts, or should it be more like "nope they turn you into a tree. Roll a new character."

Generally, always give the PC a way out, or allow them to try and fight their way out.

"You're dead, roll up another character" is generally a bad move, I know, I used it once, a long time ago.

Quote from: mAcular Chaotic;1010798My idea was something like: they take him to an old Ent that judges him guilty, and the punishment is being turned into a tree to give back nourishment to the forest he took away from.

He is then offered a choice: submit to becoming a tree, or try to escape a magical hedge maze that is filled with red caps spawned from his victims and other such things that chase him. That, or he enters the maze and wanders for eternity until his heart feels true regret. Either way, the chance of success would be like 5%. The hard part with the regret part is determining when the character truly feels regret and not just some BS the player says though.

Puzzles are good, as are riddles, Fae like both of those. I wouldn;t give a low chance and leave it at that, instead I'd give a low chance and allow the PCF to boost the chance by performing deeds or solving puzzles in the maze, each relating to the people he has killed.

If you need the PC to be genuinely regretful then give them a geas of some sort, an obligation that they must meet until their regret is manifest.
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#63
December 02, 2017, 10:23:11 AM
Quote from: mAcular Chaotic;1010804I don't think a god would come down all the way just to deal with some random miscreant in the woods. But the hunt idea is good.

The Fae are generally quite close to/descended from the Gods, so why not? The Wild Hunt exists for many reasons, one is to punish very bad people who are enemies of the Fae. It might not be Woden, Herne or whichever deity leads the Wild Hunt, but might just be a mundane manifestation of the Wild Hunt.
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#64
December 02, 2017, 10:26:36 AM
Quote from: mAcular Chaotic;1010809What do you mean join it? Wouldn't they be hunting him.

Sometimes, the Wild hunt gives its victims a choice, die or join the Wild Hunt. If they join the Wild Hunt, they ride forever, hunting those who misbehave.

Quote from: mAcular Chaotic;1010809As for the rules... well... what happened is this:

The party saved and befriended a centaur village that was under fey rulership. Later, the PC who was possessed by the sword went and slew half of the centaurs there and raised them undead, before he was fought off. So this is what the party would potentially be handing him over to the fey for.

"On my life, your Honour, it wasn't me. The sword had control over me and used me like a puppet. I tried to fight back but wasn't powerful enough. Now the Sword has gone, I am free of its control. I will help make amends by hunting down the poor victims of this terrible deed".
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Gronan of Simmerya

#65
December 02, 2017, 12:23:21 PM
Quote from: soltakss;1010850"On my life, your Honour, it wasn't me. The sword had control over me and used me like a puppet. I tried to fight back but wasn't powerful enough. Now the Sword has gone, I am free of its control. I will help make amends by hunting down the poor victims of this terrible deed".

Now you're cooking with charcoal!

Next step, the Fae throw a Geas on him that essentially makes him their avenger.  Whenever Duke Aelfrid of the Summer Court needs a dirty deed done, the geas activates.

Mayhem, as Chirine says, ensues.
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