No Stats Theatre - Tempter Log

[LD]

Steerpike- Don't worry too much about it- the tale was good. It's even harder to write organic and natural conversations when you are typing them rather than speaking them to an actual roleplaying group. I suspect that when I run my scenario, I will have similar problems- finishing on time often trumps some scenarios that a GM has prepared.

[Superfluous Crow]

I liked the combat scene with Samael casually retrieving various missile launchers and Pazuzu engaging in an actual Palpatinic lightning stand-off. Pretty sweet.
what is the advantage of being in true form? Enhanced strength and endurance (and occasional flight)?
EDIT: Oh, yeah, I second that the closing line was pure awesome.

[Steerpike]

Not so much enhanced strength etc as various abilities and powers, as well as sheer intimidation.  Also I think that bursting out of the mortal form into a true form is just deliciously dramatic.

I got the idea prinicpally from The Master and Margarita, which is one of my major sources of inspiration for Tempter.  For those who haven't read it it's a novel set in Soviet Russia where the devil ("Woland") and his retinue (Behemoth, Azazello, Abadonna, and Koroviev) engage in various infernal/satirical hijinx.  During most of the novel the characters look like odd but basically normal humans (or animals) - they might have mismatched eyes or eccentric clothing or some mild deformity but they're not obviously supernatural.  At the end, however, there's a scene where they're all sort of transformed - possibly while going back to Hell - and you glimpse their more poetic, supernatural "true forms."