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You might also need to consider wind direction and what if anything it is carrying. Waterlogged air hitting a mountain will drop rain as it slows, with the other side not receiving any water at all.

Lots of creatures have symbiotic or parasitic critters with them. Ghost of past victims, or illusions there of. Strange sounds that are bodily functions. I do also have an errant thought that the castle has a cold or similar with mucus and coughing.

So if I have this right, an inexperienced bandit only after some coin is just as likely as a cult fanatic defending her shrine/demon/starving lion/seasoned soldier (save dependent) to run away? And there appears to be no consideration for the status (i.e bloodied) of the PCs, if no allies have...

I usually have a set of conditions where the opponents will flee or even surrender. As others have said, most sentient creatures want to live. There could be also other reasons why opponents flee rather than stay to die: bringing back information on the party to their bosses, delaying...

What AAA studios said wasn't part of the discussion until after my reply. What the post said that drew your 'try harder' response was 'not all games will be of BG3 quality'. What I said was that smaller companies, even if trying harder, couldn't make a BG3 quality game, and stated some reasons...

Agree that they should try harder, but that may not be enough. Larian had a couple of other things occur that usually would not be allowed. Delayed for what, approximately 2 years (including covid), were allowed to work without interference by WotC, Larian being privately owned so can control...

One other thing to consider is that the unusual usually get blamed for all of people's troubles. You can use this to cause problems but also as adventuring hooks/leads on what the party is doing.

You would think so. I probably should have said the focus to not spoil isn't there.

While I agree I'd rather not have spoilers, the aim of a trailer is to get people to watch the show. Trailers are typically handled by promoters not the producers, so whether the show is spoilt or not seems irrelevant. It takes skill/time to provide a trailer the both shows no spoilers but...

As mentioned above the why is important, maybe more so than the how. The missing person could be missing because: Got lost Fell in love/lust Got addicted to a vice, drugs, gambling, crochet Helping 3rd party Lost the parcel and is now looking for it. Has a phobia that now prevents them from...

My take is this: The average person generally doesn't care that someone is a wizard v warlock v sorcerer, usually they care about what the mage has done. Unless the mage does do something that will distinguish them as a specific class they wouldn'tbe able to distinguish between them anyway. And...

Does it have to be evil? HAL from 2001. Not exactly evil. Went mad due to two contradictory commands (tell the crew needed info for theirmission v keep secret mission from crew). Asimov robot stories, and the Will Smith 'I robot' movie have a theme of enslaving humans to save them. Ultron...

Guess I'm going to be that guy. {Sarcasm/}Only 3 years for an Ap that is way to short, how am I going to have PC backstories included and players wanting a home base and fixing it up etc. {\Sarcasm} :). Unfortunately an AP needs to be a lot of things to a lot of people, so someone will see...

Wasn't clear was it? I was agreeing RES:CON was not something to pick. Q3 was the RES:WIS option.

Ok i left half speed out but it is still moving contrary to your comment. Moving at half speed typically (not always) gets them 15ft away, out of melee if flying up. Dangerous it can be, but I don't see flying becoming non conducive (possible/likely) because of this. And the are many situations...