February 1997 Fighting in Southern Germany

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by Olefin

And players could easily take the southern route home - especially in games today. While the initial release of modules had the players go deeper into Poland (which to me made little sense, who is going to head east to get home unless you play a party of Soviet or Ukranian deserters?) having the Black Madonna module shows a more realistic route - i.e. one thru Silesia and then into western Czechoslovakia and Austria into Germany. Opening up all kinds of new encounters and equipment possibilities.

I had players once decide to do this -- except they went through the Alps. So I decided to set a weird encounter and have them meet up with a band of Neanderthals that had been hidden there for 40,000 years. They ended up staying with the Neanderthals until it got warmer, and never told anyone about them.