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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7051487" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>Then the characters need to think of something else quickly - like grabbing one of the many cloth items that are guaranteed to be in the room (if nothing else, a large shred of their own clothing would do), soak it full of the blood, fold it up and put it on something hard like the back of a shield. The naga then just has to wring out the cloth later and...look at that! Blood!</p><p></p><p>Taking the head is a fail-safe: carry the head upside-down, then later if there's not enough blood in the cloth the naga can tip the head upright and see what comes out.</p><p></p><p>I still don't see how anything this minor (even though important in context) gets into railroading territory at all. There's a container, or there isn't; and if you-as-DM haven't determined that ahead of time (I know I wouldn't have!) then you just have to wing it. Seems the opposite of railroading to me; railroading would more indicate you'd either predetermined there was no container for reasons of your own, or predetermined there was a container and then tried to influence or force the PC to use it.</p><p></p><p>Lan-"were it me, I'd be wondering why I'm working for a dark naga in the first place instead of trying to kill it"-efan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7051487, member: 29398"] Then the characters need to think of something else quickly - like grabbing one of the many cloth items that are guaranteed to be in the room (if nothing else, a large shred of their own clothing would do), soak it full of the blood, fold it up and put it on something hard like the back of a shield. The naga then just has to wring out the cloth later and...look at that! Blood! Taking the head is a fail-safe: carry the head upside-down, then later if there's not enough blood in the cloth the naga can tip the head upright and see what comes out. I still don't see how anything this minor (even though important in context) gets into railroading territory at all. There's a container, or there isn't; and if you-as-DM haven't determined that ahead of time (I know I wouldn't have!) then you just have to wing it. Seems the opposite of railroading to me; railroading would more indicate you'd either predetermined there was no container for reasons of your own, or predetermined there was a container and then tried to influence or force the PC to use it. Lan-"were it me, I'd be wondering why I'm working for a dark naga in the first place instead of trying to kill it"-efan [/QUOTE]
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