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<blockquote data-quote="Warforged DK" data-source="post: 8004723" data-attributes="member: 6680531">I once had a campaign derail because of it.&nbsp; Players were tasked to retrieve a helm that would be used to legitimize a goblin clan's claim to leadership.&nbsp; When they got to the tomb, they found lots of other treasure and loaded everything back up onto Tenser's.&nbsp; What took a few hours hard ride on horseback took several days with Tenser's.&nbsp; They got back after the kingsmoot and failed to prevent a civil war.&nbsp; Good job guys!&nbsp; Same players used Arcane Eye to completely obviate a dungeon and derail that campaign.&nbsp; I had once described a art piece worth 205GP as a giant, cast in gold, getting serviced by an elf.&nbsp; One player took some old toys, spraypainted them gold and &quot;made&quot; the offending statue.&nbsp; And so, a few weeks later, the party was investigating a fire giant's fortress from the outside, using Arcane eye.&nbsp; The top floor (of the multi-level deep fortress in the side of a volcano) was kind of a foyer and thus had art pieces on the walls and on tables.&nbsp; They asked if one of the statues was another golden Giant getting serviced by an elf, and I said, &quot;sure, why not&quot;&nbsp; Player cast Invisibility, ran in, yoinked the statue and the whole party ran off!&nbsp; Campaign derailed as they just wanted to find more golden giant statues.&nbsp; I ran with it for another month or so and 4 statues were made in real life.Same group game gave me a great idea that we absolutely need to run sometime.&nbsp; Heroes as part of an adventurer's guild, where low level character clean up the messes of higher level characters.&nbsp; This was after the Necromancer had been making zombies and storing them in his portable hole; which the party then let loose in a sewer in an attempt to block the BBEG's potential escape.&nbsp; We all forgot about the zombies for a few months real time, until we went back to the town and remembered what happened.&nbsp; Zombies got loose, attacked some innocents, and thus was born the idea of low level PC's cleaning up the other's messes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Warforged DK, post: 8004723, member: 6680531"] I once had a campaign derail because of it. Players were tasked to retrieve a helm that would be used to legitimize a goblin clan's claim to leadership. When they got to the tomb, they found lots of other treasure and loaded everything back up onto Tenser's. What took a few hours hard ride on horseback took several days with Tenser's. They got back after the kingsmoot and failed to prevent a civil war. Good job guys! Same players used Arcane Eye to completely obviate a dungeon and derail that campaign. I had once described a art piece worth 205GP as a giant, cast in gold, getting serviced by an elf. One player took some old toys, spraypainted them gold and "made" the offending statue. And so, a few weeks later, the party was investigating a fire giant's fortress from the outside, using Arcane eye. The top floor (of the multi-level deep fortress in the side of a volcano) was kind of a foyer and thus had art pieces on the walls and on tables. They asked if one of the statues was another golden Giant getting serviced by an elf, and I said, "sure, why not" Player cast Invisibility, ran in, yoinked the statue and the whole party ran off! Campaign derailed as they just wanted to find more golden giant statues. I ran with it for another month or so and 4 statues were made in real life. Same group game gave me a great idea that we absolutely need to run sometime. Heroes as part of an adventurer's guild, where low level character clean up the messes of higher level characters. This was after the Necromancer had been making zombies and storing them in his portable hole; which the party then let loose in a sewer in an attempt to block the BBEG's potential escape. We all forgot about the zombies for a few months real time, until we went back to the town and remembered what happened. Zombies got loose, attacked some innocents, and thus was born the idea of low level PC's cleaning up the other's messes. [/QUOTE]

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