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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 2878804" data-attributes="member: 13703">Hussar,It may have been unclear in my post, but what I meant in regards to "video-gamey" play was more the "grab everything that's not nailed down" mentality.The area that the players "liberated" the 9 light crossbows and 9 longspears from their former slavelords is basically caverns underneath a giant rubbish dump.  Half of the stuff that the characters are walking/wading through would make eating out of a dumpster and washing it down with a glass of raw sewerage look hygienic in comparison.  I have been describing it to the players in all its disgusting detail.In addition to this there is also the matter of transporting them.  I imagine that it is kind of difficult to carry that many crossbows at one time (without a sack or something similar).  The longspears I could understand.  When I asked how he supposedly carried them into town he replied that they were probably just piled on top of the 3 dead bodies that the party was bringing back on a make-shift stretcher!   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> In regards to the shopping issue, I understand that this level of detail is a personal choice and one way is not necessarily better than the other.  This is why I will probably be moving this interaction to e-mails instead of doing it in-game.I feel though that if you just "hand-wave" all of this interaction you lose a lot of the role-playing side and players don't immerse themselves in the game as much.  I also think that you can create a lot of interesting side-plots and sub-plots that otherwise would be left out.  Playing out these scenes can make the world seem more "real".  Keep in mind that this is just my opinion though.Olaf the Stout</blockquote>

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