Origins 2015 Battle Interactive

Hello Michael,

Yes, due to all the negative feedback about last year’s BI, I’ve written one that is only 8 rounds in length.

You’ll play Scenes 1 through 5, take a 1 hour dinner break, then play the last rounds, 6 – 8.

You’ll be in bed before midnight, unless we start horribly late for some reason.

I will also say the following:

This is a Battle Interactive.

Some of your characters may die.

As in all battles, innocent bystanders may die.

So if you suffer from the following triggers: imaginary death and dismemberment, imaginary claustrophobia, imaginary characters dying, or pretending to fight imaginary creatures, then PLEASE return your ticket for a refund at Origins.

However, if your in he mood to take on sinister creatures and villains, face off against a horrible evil, kick some butt and shed the blood of your enemies by the bucket full, then your in for a treat.

Then sharpen your blades (imaginary, of course) and I’ll see you at Origins, folks!

One question remains. Suppose your character does die at some point in the BI. What do you do for the rest of the event? Seems a shame to waste the playing time you spent money on. Would there be a way to bring in another character? Now I can just see it “Yeah I lost TWO characters in the BI, man that was rough!” On the other hand it does give one a certain cachet….

Hello Michael,

One question remains. Suppose your character does die at some point in the BI. What do you do for the rest of the event? Seems a shame to waste the playing time you spent money on.

So are you proposing that if your character dies in a normal 4 hours adventure, the player should be allowed to bring in another character because he spent money to play?

At what point do you believe you have gotten your money’s worth? After the half way point? Only if the character dies at the last fight?

Given that there are many ways to avoid death in the ARG system, you’d have to have already “died” a number of times for it to be permanent (twice, that I can think of).

So no – if your character “died” the third time in the BI or you chose not to spend a Fate Point or take a permanent and ugly scar to avoid death, then you’re done with the BI or frankly any adventure this occurs in.

Hello Michael,

One question remains. Suppose your character does die at some point in the BI. What do you do for the rest of the event? Seems a shame to waste the playing time you spent money on.

So are you proposing that if your character dies in a normal 4 hours adventure, the player should be allowed to bring in another character because he spent money to play?

At what point do you believe you have gotten your money’s worth? After the half way point? Only if the character dies at the last fight?

Given that there are many ways to avoid death in the ARG system, you’d have to have already “died” a number of times for it to be permanent (twice, that I can think of).

So no – if your character “died” the third time in the BI or you chose not to spend a Fate Point or take a permanent and ugly scar to avoid death, then you’re done with the BI or frankly any adventure this occurs in.

My apologies Henry I wasn’t trying to provoke an argument really I wasn’t. I keep forgetting about that business of burning a fate point to avoid death. I bounce back and forth between Arcanis and Pathfinder and sometimes get some of the rules mixed up. And I like the physical flaw/nasty scar business I can run with that. End up looking like Mad-Eye Moody. Let’s see One Eye, Horribly Scarred and Missing a Leg (all depends on how I got hit). Yeah it’s characterful for Haakon, be like one of those 40K Inquisitors…Darn it Henry now I’m wanting to get beat up in the BI…

Fair enough good sir. By the way I like HP8, it should provoke some discussion at the table and beyond. That last encounter should prove interesting.