MAR 25, 2024

Game Mastering, TTRPG

<aside> 📒 The party caught up to the kidnappers and managed to lure their leader into an ambush

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Payoffs:

• Social combat (interrogation) with “Joseph”

• The kidnapping: who and why.

  • Reward?

• Raccoon dudes in masks and their connection to Clover

  Session 0

• Brady’s player invested a triple Advantage to know Julia’s goal

  • more about Celephaïs and Kuranes?

• Clover’s player invested a Story Point into making a giant cat a think in the Enchanted Wood

• Nita interested in brewing more potent stuff and finding ingredients for it

Outline:

• Interrogation
  • possible complications:
    • the raccoon dudes show up
    • “Joseph” tries to break his restraints
• Getting back
  • Atlish people from the outpost, doing a ritual over a pool in the Woods. They send off small bark ships with prayers to the ancestors. They believe they get to the ocean and get to the edge of the world – then the ancestors might read the questions and aid.
  • Zoog party, traveling from their Moon Trees grove with amphorae of juice. They are irritated, as it was recently salvaged by someone else.
• Downtime
  • Love letters?

Interrogation

• Goals
  • The party wants to know who the kidnapper is and what his motivations are?
  • The kidnapper wants to weasel out from the captivity and finish the mission. He wants to bring at least two (the minimum success condition).
    • lie about newbies being wanted criminals
    • get his minions into the frame and equal the playing field
    • make a tearful lie about the sorcerer having his child captive
    • lie about the goal and offer the PC to travel
• Duel of Wits
  • Inflict enough strain to make the man capitulate
  • Inflict half-strain for the compromise
  • “Argument”: deal 1 + (number of successes) strain
    • Counter-argument: take 2 Strain upon failure
  • “Critical Remarks”: spend Triumph or 4 Advantages to deal 5 Strain