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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4852791" data-attributes="member: 22779">IME, if I tried to strongarm the party with an NPC, no matter how good the idea was, or how much in their own self interest the NPC's idea was, they'd refuse to do it.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  They'd bite off their own noses to spite their faces if the NPC tried to openly force them to do something.But, I could see the guide NPC chucking out an idea and then seeing where the players go with it.  Very much a soft sell.Oh sure.  I've done the same.  The problem with this is, there are times when player backgrounds really don't lend themselves to knowing something.  And again, I'm not really interested in using the Guide as a plot hook.  The Guide's role is more setting exposition.  A means by which the DM can get his setting material into the hands of the players without just telling them or infodumping.</blockquote>