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Reward player's actions with glory to create memorable campaigns
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Outgunned: Gravity is a Cruel Mistress
There’s nothing that brings a gaming party together like a first session of a new (to us) game system. We recently started playing Outgunned, a cinematic action RPG. Skimming through a subset of the 200 pages in the rulebook, it seemed we were being promised high stakes, higher adrenaline, and a distinct lack of respect for the laws of physics. But more on that last part later.
Breaking Campaign
Our party was stealthily approaching a fortress embedded on the side of a mountain. As we were about to rush the fortified gate, a dragon flew out of a hidden space high above us. Before the GM could finish narrating, Gecko, our ranger, declared he was firing a crossbow bolt at the dragon.