Re: [DL] messing with a Blessed

["William Ogden" <w_ogden@hotmail.com>]

>From: "James Camilleri" <j.camilleri@virgin.net>
>Reply-To: deadlands@gamerz.net
>To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
>Subject: Re: [DL] Gettting a player dead
>Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 20:06:07 +0100
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "William Ogden" <w_ogden@hotmail.com>
>To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
>Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 6:15 PM
>Subject: Re: [DL] Gettting a player dead
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> > >From: "Ben Rasmussen" <nyddoybdyle@hotmail.com>
> > >Reply-To: deadlands@gamerz.net
> > >To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
> > >Subject: [DL] Gettting a player dead
> > >Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 12:10:59 -0500
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> > >With all this talk of how easy it is to kill PC's maybe someone can 
>give
>me
> > >a few ideas. I've got this blessed monster hunter that I just can't 
>find
>a
> > >good way to challenge or spook.
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> > >His 5d12 faith, protection, refuge of faith, smite, wrath, spiritual
> > >backhand, and consecrate armement blessed powers make him live up to 
>that
> > >monster hunter label. But I need to knock gods chosen one down a notch 
>or
> > >two.
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> > >Over three sessions, I've been watching him like a hawk and he has yet 
>to
> > >step outside the tenents of his faith (Catholic). I'm waiting for the
>slip
> > >up, but I doubt it's coming any time soon.
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> > >So far, I'm planning on using a few normal mortal folks for 
>antagonists,
> > >seeing as he wouldn't have as large of an advantage over them since he
> > >can't
> > >just kill them.
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> > >Also working on trying to engineer a situation or two where he leads to
>the
> > >death of others, maybe eliminate that blessed edge for a little bit.
> > >Nothing
> > >like a crisis of faith and all that. But he's very observent, and I 
>can't
> > >come up with a good trap yet...
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> > >And well, there's always TNT, the devils own equalizer. But while it'll
> > >probably only take one encounter like this, I don't want to over use 
>it.
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> > >Any good suggestions for supernatural beasties I could menance him 
>with?
> > >Any
> > >nasty tricks for handling blessed?
> > >Anything I'm over looking and could use to really screw him? Help a
> > >Marshall
> > >out here!
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>Apolos for the long reply... got carried away, but I love having players
>like that. They make the game a lot of fun. :)
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yours reminded me of the scent in book 3 of the deed of Paksenarrion (good 
series, basically about a fighter becoming a paladin)

basically the bad guys had captured some people, and she swapped herself for 
them.  the bad guys wanted her to renounce her god, or they would torture 
her, or, when that didn't work, torture and kill other innocents.

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