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</table>1d4chan>Zimrielhttp://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=CM1:_Test_of_the_Warlords&diff=107934&oldid=prev1d4chan>Zimriel at 21:28, 3 July 20212021-07-03T21:28:17Z<p></p>
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</table>1d4chan>Zimrielhttp://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=CM1:_Test_of_the_Warlords&diff=107933&oldid=prev1d4chan>Rinnexn at 19:17, 29 September 20202020-09-29T19:17:19Z<p></p>
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</table>1d4chan>Zimrielhttp://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=CM1:_Test_of_the_Warlords&diff=107930&oldid=prev1d4chan>Zimriel at 15:34, 4 June 20202020-06-04T15:34:37Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Thyatis apparently couldn't find anybody with a moral compass so </del>its agents <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">are </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">gallery </del>of utter bastards<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, including an </del>evil spellcaster, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a </del>mafioso, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">some </del>total douchecanoe who calls his <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">24-mile hex of territory </del>"The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dominion </del>Of Max the First". <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The players know exactly </del>who wears the white hat and who wears the black hat. This is funny in the light of ''Dawn'' where we learn that Alphatia is running a caste society at home and a slave ring in other colonies.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Thincol takes the William of Normandy approach to conquest - pulling </ins>its agents <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">from </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lineup </ins>of utter bastards<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. The three the module notes are the </ins>evil spellcaster <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Alak Dool</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">some </ins>mafioso <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">called Longtooth</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a </ins>total douchecanoe who calls his <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">boyz </ins>"The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Army </ins>Of Max the First". <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Alak Dool has some effect on the module but the others won't until "the War of the Crown" at the end. Just from their names the party knows </ins>who wears the white hat and who wears the black hat. This is funny in the light of ''Dawn'' where we learn that Alphatia is running a caste society at home and a slave ring in other colonies.</div></td></tr>
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</table>1d4chan>Zimrielhttp://2d4chan.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=CM1:_Test_of_the_Warlords&diff=107929&oldid=prev1d4chan>Zimriel at 19:19, 3 June 20202020-06-03T19:19:44Z<p></p>
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