We wrapped up our ghostlines prequel campaign last night – here are the end-titles I put together.
Music by Jack de Quidt for Friends at the Table, used without permission. Buy his great music! https://notquitereal.bandcamp.com/
We had a good time! We ended up with a range of retirement outcomes from two linebulls in mansions through to one in a flophouse and one in a modest home.
We also did an “epilogue roll”, where each player stated a desired life-goal for their character and rolled 1d6 to see how close they came. They could then spend stash at a rate of 10 for a +1 to improve their outcome, basically sacrificing material wealth to pursue their goals. Because this was a prequel game, these epilogues will feed into the upcoming Blades in the Dark campaign set 40 years after. One character started a guild of criminal fixers, one started an alchemical tonic manufactory, the third became a famous celebrity and war-hero, and the fourth became a vampire with absolutely no money.
Here is the final newspaper of the campaign. Pretty self-explanatory!
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cEBCL1U4iRsmZuTbEEajBNWcIXCQ2qmHOLp6vqTK_XxfBNARuLg7AtggTde3YiXKMdwSGsU6OF_5raUT3Memssr7B_9v_NIuHlU=s0
Here is a little hype graphic for the final session. Excellent artwork by Kisufisu on deviantart: https://www.deviantart.com/kisufisu/art/Bog-of-Bugs-492514733
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Ou_O8lLDdYghN1h_Ye86svatt6BSkh-6oD5wncD-ltrVT198PIO_IJXt2rNiss9KFzh6ebUs-SUiYjHj2uWvbhPYUvCOfpXumqA=s0
And, finally, here is a screenshot of the Roll20 setup of the final setpiece – the Battle of Tyrmoor Bridge. This was the first and most important battle of the Unity War, before either side had a chance to entrench (at which point the war becomes a slow, bitter slog).
We used modified rules where each roll covered a whole montage of action – and failure meant automatic scars and horrors.
One player switched sides, two ended up unconscious but alive, and ultimately the skovs lost, with Ragnar Ironborn dying to let the surviving skovs retreat across the bridge.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/PvTN-yHpOxjhevLE7IgFmsEm-YjtpmjLC0OK751QSEdpF5ojSGUhEktva3XrKghjtFCGI0ZEGqlQPcIwoSmtzNqGH-IsvMN4sa0=s0
How did you make the newspaper?
Minor Illusion Photoshop
AWESOME! 🙂