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That could be a pretty legit hook for a comedy game. A nefarious chamber of commerce is putting everyone in danger!

The easy answer is "they live their lives." But if you just assume that that farmers farm, the tavern keepers sell grog, and the blind oracle tells fortunes, your towns and cities begin to feel stagnant. Nothing ever changes. So in the interest of building better game worlds, what say we invent...

It's kind of an odd hair to split, but I don't think players need to conform to the module as they're playing it. I think that responsibility comes in when you're between sessions. If things have gone so far off the rails that books 2-6 of the AP are about to get invalidated, I think it's time...

I feel like that's a good way to say it. There's an understanding that the group is going to use the content they paid for. I like the idea of adding side quests, personalizing the module to accommodate character backstories, and using Paizo style "campaign traits" to tie PCs to the existing...

That's a good wisdom. Case in point. That said, I find myself reading through Zelazny's "Amber" at the moment, and it's been refreshing to see an old school law vs. order conflict play out.

I remember Chris Perkins talking about "the invisible railroad" as a relevant concept on this point. Check out the illustration on page 76: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/DM_Experience_2011.pdf

Suppose your group is playing a module. You all agreed to play a module. Halfway through that module, half of the group decides to knife the primary quest giver and head off for Saltmarsh to become a pirates or whatever. They've rejected the premise and substituted their own. At what point...

Neat! I hadn't really considered the fringe benefits of the caravan thing.

For me, the problem is always parking. How do you keep your draft horses from getting eaten after the party has gone down into the dungeon? You could hire guards of course, but they cut into the overhead and are just as likely to get eaten by wolves anyway.

The time has come. You've finally unlocked the overworld map, and you can go literally anywhere. What is your preferred means of travel? Are you all about teleportation? Do you shell out for an airship? Or do you just save money and walk everywhere like a peasant? And perhaps most troubling...

Makes me wonder how long it would take for the player to catch on if you constructed a monster-of-the-week campaign from the plots of 90s horror movies. Anaconda for the monster hunt, Cube for the escape dungeon, The Faculty for intellect devourers... naughty word, I kind of want to do it now.

So wait... How'd that end up? Did the dude get a sword, or just an inner feeling of contentment?

I guess that's one way for a djinn to learn hurl through hell.

As an exercise in how not to adventure: What is the worst, most foolish, easiest-for-an-evil-genie-to-misinterpret wish? Comic for illustrative purposes.

The slippery slope to PVP is paved with accidental horse kicks. :/

I really could have phrased that better. :/

My fellow druids! I find it is a slippery slope down the path to animal indignity. When wildshaped, it's all too common for my party members to treat me like a dumb beast. I want to be a team player and help pull the cart, but where should I put my hoof down? Comic related.

I'm beginning to wonder if that the thing that distinguishes a good metacurrency from a bad one. If it's part of core gameplay, people use it and remember to use it. If it's just bolted on, people forget to use it, ignore it, and so begin to feel like it's extraneous. In the case of 5e, I...

I'm unfamiliar with the mechanic. How does it work?

Just to clarify, I'm talking about Inspiration rather than Bardic Inspiration: I come from Exalted and Savage Worlds, where meta currencies like "stunt dice" and "bennies" are handed out like candy, allowing players to gain mechanical benefits for doing cool stuff. However, I tend to see a lot...