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Anyone out there play Deadlands Reloaded, or at least Savage Worlds?
If I tell you that our Huckster said "This ends now!" used an Arcane Surge card, and tossed his max Blast (3 bolts) at the big bad in the fight...
...and hit with only one bolt, but that bolt hit with a raise...
...and rolled his 4d6 damage and got 6 6 6 5 and then, with the rerolls for the 6's (don't remember the exact three numbers) added 11 to it, for a total of 34 damage from one bolt...
...and the Arcane Surge card DOUBLES your DAMAGE, thus 68 damage total from one bolt...
...then would you agree that the big bad was toast, even with his astonishing toughness of 9? Yeah. *FOURTEEN* wounds. One point shy of 15. He soaked...one, I think?
Splat. Actually, FWOOSH! more accurately.
That was, by the way, the second full round of combat. Big bad had already lost his surprise round to another card requiring him to soliloquize, so we only really had to face him for a couple rounds. He summoned a swarm one round (magical: it disabled when he went down) and three rattlesnakes the next round (we actually had to clean them up after he went down, but they weren't that difficult on their own).
GM: sort of flabbergasted, really.
Players: ALSO sort of flabbergasted, actually. Gleefully so, but still.
'Twas fun. Session ended early, for some reason...like having enough time allowance for an actual major combat that failed to happen.... We had time to hang out and chat and everyone still got to head home early. Which, I'd be disappointed about, except it was frankly SO MUCH FUN that it felt like a good session, regardless of length.
If I tell you that our Huckster said "This ends now!" used an Arcane Surge card, and tossed his max Blast (3 bolts) at the big bad in the fight...
...and hit with only one bolt, but that bolt hit with a raise...
...and rolled his 4d6 damage and got 6 6 6 5 and then, with the rerolls for the 6's (don't remember the exact three numbers) added 11 to it, for a total of 34 damage from one bolt...
...and the Arcane Surge card DOUBLES your DAMAGE, thus 68 damage total from one bolt...
...then would you agree that the big bad was toast, even with his astonishing toughness of 9? Yeah. *FOURTEEN* wounds. One point shy of 15. He soaked...one, I think?
Splat. Actually, FWOOSH! more accurately.
That was, by the way, the second full round of combat. Big bad had already lost his surprise round to another card requiring him to soliloquize, so we only really had to face him for a couple rounds. He summoned a swarm one round (magical: it disabled when he went down) and three rattlesnakes the next round (we actually had to clean them up after he went down, but they weren't that difficult on their own).
GM: sort of flabbergasted, really.
Players: ALSO sort of flabbergasted, actually. Gleefully so, but still.
'Twas fun. Session ended early, for some reason...like having enough time allowance for an actual major combat that failed to happen.... We had time to hang out and chat and everyone still got to head home early. Which, I'd be disappointed about, except it was frankly SO MUCH FUN that it felt like a good session, regardless of length.