Ranes
Adventurer
There are summoning spells. There are portals. There are other extra-planar transportation methods. And through them all come creatures that do not belong on any self-respecting (if you'll forgive the anthropomorphising) prime material plane. You see them in adventure modules everywhere.
My questions are these:
Do you feel the need to justify what your extra-planar critters are doing on your PMP or do you happily shuffle elementals into your random encounter tables (or encounter generating mechanism of choice)?
Do your players ever take you to task (if you're the DM) or do you take your DM to task (if you're a player) when you encounter an alien entity without the proper travel permit (ie it hasn't been summoned, there aren't any suspect, ten-foot-diameter discs of swirling otherness nearby and the critter hasn't just crackled into existence with an accompanying aroma of ground-level ozone)?
I'm just curious. And maybe that's the critter's excuse. But when I write an adventure, I don't use extra-planar natives, unless I can explicitly account for them. When I see such beasties lurking in a published adventure, I tend to either write them out or write in additional justification for them.
As always, I appreciate your scary thought processes.
My questions are these:
Do you feel the need to justify what your extra-planar critters are doing on your PMP or do you happily shuffle elementals into your random encounter tables (or encounter generating mechanism of choice)?
Do your players ever take you to task (if you're the DM) or do you take your DM to task (if you're a player) when you encounter an alien entity without the proper travel permit (ie it hasn't been summoned, there aren't any suspect, ten-foot-diameter discs of swirling otherness nearby and the critter hasn't just crackled into existence with an accompanying aroma of ground-level ozone)?
I'm just curious. And maybe that's the critter's excuse. But when I write an adventure, I don't use extra-planar natives, unless I can explicitly account for them. When I see such beasties lurking in a published adventure, I tend to either write them out or write in additional justification for them.
As always, I appreciate your scary thought processes.