Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

[jhilahd]

So this'll be my second time running SW's. The first time was for my daughter and her best friend, we played Pirates of the Spanish Main and had a hoot. Lots of sword play and fancy moves.

But... now I've got an opportunity to run for my regular group who have never played SW.

I thought, well we're always playing hero's... "let's be bad guys" and printed out the Moscow Connection One Sheet.
Now it seems pretty straight forward, and there's little in the way of extra complications/investigation what not.
I mean, there is, but very little.

And once they find those card carrying members from "the Base" it's all then they can clean up the mess, should they survive.

So my question is, what are somethings I need to be aware of or concerned about with regards to this adventure. It's my first modern adventure, so auto, semi-auto, cover and the like will come into play. But what else?
Anything?
Am I over thinking this?
Is it short enough, that I need to prep part to from the Deluxe book?

Or should I just run one of the other one-shots inside the Deluxe rules, like the Vikings?

Anyway, I'm excited, they're all enthused about trying SW so I needed something short and sweet. I think that this'll fit the bill. Thoughts?
Oh and thanks in advance.

[ValhallaGH]

Lighting is also a big deal, mostly favoring the PCs.
Suppressive Fire. It's useful without being super-dangerous to the PCs, plus it makes for a great description. Use it liberally, rather than simply putting holes into new PCs.
Unarmed defenders and Improvised weapons are likely to come up a lot, since there are two melee PCs and a lot of ranged foes.
Note that the Moscow Connection uses an especially gritty and dangerous version of the damage rules. Read up on it, thoroughly, before you try to use it.
Don't worry about NPC ammo; use the Ammo Level rules under the Allies and assume they start out High. If the PCs scavenge then they find 0 to 2 (0 at Out, 1 at Low, 2 at High) spare magazines plus 1 full magazine in the rifle.


You can always take a different one-sheet and make it modern. Fires of Ascalon? Change the PCs from elves to a national guard unit, and the orcs to foreign troops on ATVs; or make the PCs be outlaws plundering the town and the orcs be law enforcement, trying to stop the town raiders. They're still destroying the town, but it's the granary, inn, and repair garage instead of stable.
Heck, changing the Vikings to be Bigfoot hunters and a local drug-lord scaring people away from his still would make that one pretty modern.
The possibilities are nearly endless.


Regardless, Good Luck!
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[jhilahd]

So just got through running this... wow.
Super fast. 3 pcs vs the bad guys. They rolled(no pun intended) the baddies.

Using the gritty rules was nasty.
The man Wild card bad guy got one shot'd by a Louisville Slugger, and a neverending exploding damage die. We got started around 7:30pm, and finished alittle after 9pm. Seemed a bit surreal.
None of my players had played any SW stuff, but they caught on and kept wanting to use bennies for wild stuff. Some I said no, mostly I said yes and through consequences at them. It worked greatly.

I offered to run the next part of the scenario(the one in the deluxe edition) next week or run something else and they were all "ooo let's finish this."

So we'll see how it goes. Reading up on the Chase mechanics now...

[ValhallaGH]

Sounds like it was a roaring success. Congratulations.