Excellent scenario and write up. Thanks for sharing.
I especially loved the bodies piling up next to the undertaker and the reporter and photographer taking pictures.
How did the scenario go with 10 players? I sometimes find that things bog down after 5-6 depending on which rules are used and how many figures per player.
Did you use the Legends of the Old West rules?
Thank you. I do love share our multi players' games.
The "Argad" rule permits all the players to move alltogether. Players whose characters met on the table can speak to each other (roleplaying), negociate. Everybody can move easily and freely except when fighting occurs where we have to become slow and follow the engagement's rules, ranges, moves...
In fact, I had no time, not even a single minute to visit the hall, eat a pancake or anything else as players always had something to ask or to resolve with me.
I was a little bit afraid when two players both lost their characters. (The mexican chief and the sheriff in the big house). The mexican player hide his suvivors and the last deputy became the nex sheriff.
When this occurs, I usually (I did tat several times in my sengoku campaign) offer another roles to dead players (Really? ^_^) for the following adventures.
Some of them are expecialists of loosing their characters each time. But they don't care, they have great fun each time, and they know that they mau have a better one in a different role on the next date.
I know my players better and better and I can propose role more suitable to them.
For the 3 politicians, I needed 3 players good at rolepaying and creativity.
One of them didn't especially want to fight... So I gave him the doctor (and candidate to the townhall) (and had a lot to do).
The only tunin I can tell you if you want't to try the adventure (after 30 years of attempts):
Its a lot easyer to had roleplay rules to a skirmish game than trying to adapt a roleplaying game to mass engagements.
You may have a look to my Sengoku campaign. I managed alone up to 13 players together. Don't think you can anticipate whatever they will do. Of course you can't and you have to accept it. The following episodes may take a direction you couldn't imagine... Imagination is king.
(Sorry for my poor english, I do my best and hope to be anderstandable)
P.S. Players had 7-12 figures each. For Sengoku it rised to 20-30 each.
