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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8105858" data-attributes="member: 177">Because, if you don't see it as a problem, you don't use a solution.If you are writing an adventure in a town, and you don't specifically set any of the game's action in the town's sewer system, do you include a map and description of that sewer system?  Probably not.  The fact that you've laid out a town which actually has a major water drainage problem may occur to someone who looks at it closely, and they may deduce that really, the entire town should be a small lake, and they'll wonder why you didn't "solve" that problem.  And you'll ask.. why on earth do you give a whit about water drainage?!?  I'm going to guess the following - exactly how the people of the area have been managing in this crisis has little or nothing to do with solving the root problems.  The PCs are probably not intended or expected to interact much with whatever the populace has been doing to get by, so there's no adventure design reason to specify it.</blockquote>