Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ashrum the Black" data-source="post: 2970996" data-attributes="member: 1585">Man this is my group to a T!Last campaign I had an adventure that was supposed to tie up loose ends concerning on of the characters backstories. I had it all set to run, and they just kept finding other things to do. For SIX levels! When they finally decided to go I ended up having to revamp the whole thing for their new level. My current campaign I keep dropping hints and clues all over, they just keep jumping left instead of right, or sometimes even backwards. They played through the first two adventures of the classic slave lords adventures. In the end of the second one some of the villians escaped on a ship out to sea. Tow of the characters backstories make them loathe pirates. Instead of tracking them down or giving chase, they decided to go after the brother of one of the characters in a completly different country on the other side of the continent.  :\ Earlier, they were bound and determined to go into a monster laden desert after an artifact they found mention to in a book they recovered. They had no clue where in the desert it was, but they wanted to go after it. I finally destracted them with hints of great wealth and power in a much easier to get to location. Now something like eight levels later and they're ready to try for it I start dropping more hints about the fabled staff, and I can hear the crikets chirp. Now they want to go kill the unspeakable undead horror loosed two thousand years ago by the total destruction of five city states. One of the character's is engaged to be married to an extremely beautiful and wealthy woman. She has made it her job to push him along the path to power and wealth. She has also begun spending quite a bit of time with his estranged father. The father has begun to set aside years of hate and now is warming to him. His father has also begun to look unwell as of late. His mother is seen less and less often. For the players part there are holes in his memory of some of his late night escapades with her. He himself has felt, drawn, lethargic, and unwell after spening the night with her. And .... nothing. He just keeps on going and adventuring, always sending loving letters back as well as including her is all of his business ventures.  <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:" /> Maybe I'm sprinkeling two many plot hooks around as they go, but they always seem to jump left instead of right. -Ashrum</blockquote>

Verification