Sometimes you just need a place to shoot the breeze with other GM's! :-)

Whew!
This has been a long time in coming! I've had in mind for the better part of a year that my Acolytes were going to end up with their Inquisitor dying and being "inherited" by his disciple.

It finally happened last night. I ran a modified form of Shades on Twilight, where they accompanied their Inquisitor instead of a Space Marine... into a death trap laid by his heretical former Interrogator.

It was great to see this hair-brained scheme finally come to fruition. I was so pleased at the very end when I told them who they would now be working for, that their responses were along the lines of: "What!??" "No! Not her!" "But that means I have to work with her heretic pet!"

..Which was exactly the reaction I hoped for.

I originally came up with this idea to have them switch Inquisitors because I had plans for Inqusitor Zayel (their new master), but I also wanted to give the Acolytes space to form their own opinions and get involved in their own politics. Having them under a distant Lord Inquisitor (and getting to form a neutral perspective on his two rival former pupils) for so long has allowed that to happen.

There've been various threads over the last year where folks have asked what plot twists we had in mind for our Acolytes etc etc.. and I hated having to keep mum, but too many of my players are on these boards, and more than one GM themselves. So I just needed to take the brief opportunity to revel in finally getting to talk about a campaign secret.

Look forward to the day when I can chat about more!

Soon, in my campaign, the interrogator my PC's are working for will be promoted to Inquisitor. Then, a few years down the line (but only months in the real world), they'll have to choose whether to side with their old inquisitor or his newly promoted pupil, effectively choosing a radical or loyalist path.

You're a horrendous sadist, I approve entirely.

Sometimes you just need a place to shoot the breeze with other GM's! :-)

Whew!
This has been a long time in coming! I've had in mind for the better part of a year that my Acolytes were going to end up with their Inquisitor dying and being "inherited" by his disciple.

It finally happened last night. I ran a modified form of Shades on Twilight, where they accompanied their Inquisitor instead of a Space Marine... into a death trap laid by his heretical former Interrogator.

It was great to see this hair-brained scheme finally come to fruition. I was so pleased at the very end when I told them who they would now be working for, that their responses were along the lines of: "What!??" "No! Not her!" "But that means I have to work with her heretic pet!"

..Which was exactly the reaction I hoped for.

I originally came up with this idea to have them switch Inquisitors because I had plans for Inqusitor Zayel (their new master), but I also wanted to give the Acolytes space to form their own opinions and get involved in their own politics. Having them under a distant Lord Inquisitor (and getting to form a neutral perspective on his two rival former pupils) for so long has allowed that to happen.

There've been various threads over the last year where folks have asked what plot twists we had in mind for our Acolytes etc etc.. and I hated having to keep mum, but too many of my players are on these boards, and more than one GM themselves. So I just needed to take the brief opportunity to revel in finally getting to talk about a campaign secret.

Look forward to the day when I can chat about more!

But first, update your website