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Title: need help working out a way to challenge my runners but not out right kill them.
Post by: chadawc on <06-12-14/0435:42>

I am running a 4th edtion game right now with 6 runners. One is a human changling street sam with an agility of 12 and focuses on close quarter combat with guns like the movie Equalibrium, there is an A.I. Rigger, a mechanic assassin jack of all mundane trades, a urban brawler changling troll adept with cyber legs that can throw anything with deadly force and can run at 60 mph,  a medic that has gremlins and magic resistance maxed that uses pre 2012 medic gear, and a occult investigater mystic adept with a crazy high perception. All I have to do is find a way to challange them withut killing them. So far they are going through my runs like they are a walk in the park until I sent them up against a few terrorist suicidel mages and some gun happy lackies which nearly killed them. How do I challenge my group with out whole sell slaughtering them?

Title: Re: need help working out a way to challenge my runners but not out right kill them.
Post by: theDregs on <06-12-14/0927:09>

Hi cap burst weapons loaded with DMSO.

Or, maybe a tense social situation, like infiltrating a dinner party.

Title: Re: need help working out a way to challenge my runners but not out right kill them.
Post by: Csjarrat on <06-12-14/0941:53>

Wow, that's quite the collection of precious snowflakes. Best thing to do is to stop playing to their strengths. Hit them where it hurts, either with magic (control actions can be nasty) or with chemicals like neurostun gas/cs etc. Hit them with stuff that targets their WIL if they shrug bullets off. You'll find it works a lot better!

Title: Re: need help working out a way to challenge my runners but not out right kill them.
Post by: martinchaen on <06-12-14/1044:39>

Depends on whether you want them to continue slaughtering everything...

Have them infiltrate a high-security facility with a contractual clause that states no deaths and preferably not even any alarms.

And I second Csjarrat's observation of the collection of special snowflakes. Not criticizing or anything, but damn...

Title: Re: need help working out a way to challenge my runners but not out right kill them.
Post by: chadawc on <06-12-14/1343:21>

Thanks for the advice I will try it out and see if it works. =o)

Title: Re: need help working out a way to challenge my runners but not out right kill them.
Post by: cantrip on <06-12-14/1723:17>

Corporate Gala! (why can't they just call it a party?)   :)

Similar to theDregs suggestion about taking them out of their comfort zone while allowing for some good roleplaying. I've got a run in the works where the extraction is taking place at a big corporate shendig. All the big wigs are there (one subsidiary was bought out by another which is owned by a third). Music, fancy clothes, open bar (that is going to be tough on the phys adept with the alcohol addiction...) possibly----some Karaoke!  ;D