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<blockquote data-quote="Creamsteak" data-source="post: 478357" data-attributes="member: 552"><p>As I can tell, your frustrated for good reasons. Your frustrated because of what I think are two different aspects.</p><p></p><p>1) You wish you could do everything. (Great, so expand on it IC)</p><p>2) You wish you knew the course to take for the best possible results. (Great, so expand on it IC).</p><p></p><p>There won't ever be a right answer. I expect your characters to be realistically selective, sometimes even sedated (lazy). It's slightly more real to do things as such. If you want to find out more about possible hooks involving those little white rocks, just look around. Sometimes there won't be a single bit of information, but other times you might find something useful or productive.</p><p></p><p>Also, there will be times when special investments of time could result in other opportunities. Those Tic-Tacs... could be useful if you choose to try using them at certain points. I will never require you to use them for anything, they are really just tic-tacs. If you choose to forget you ever had them, then so-be-it. That's the point... I want you to decide what the point of that small clear case will be.</p><p></p><p>When my previous DM gave me something similar (jawbreakers) I fed one to a particularly tough orc watching a certain cell block a friend of mine was trapped in. The cellmate was a prior PC that was captured and the player re-rolled a replacement... but I wanted to save him. I had the wizard cast invisibility on me, and I moved down to the lowest floor of the building and left a pile of gobstopers there (which I honestly thought were marbles) on the ground. That orc walked up and picked one of the many I layed out ... and <strong>PUT IT IN HIS MOUTH!</strong> to my surprise... and next thing you know he bolts out of the room screaming of a broken jaw!</p><p></p><p>Classic moments in gaming history...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Creamsteak, post: 478357, member: 552"] As I can tell, your frustrated for good reasons. Your frustrated because of what I think are two different aspects. 1) You wish you could do everything. (Great, so expand on it IC) 2) You wish you knew the course to take for the best possible results. (Great, so expand on it IC). There won't ever be a right answer. I expect your characters to be realistically selective, sometimes even sedated (lazy). It's slightly more real to do things as such. If you want to find out more about possible hooks involving those little white rocks, just look around. Sometimes there won't be a single bit of information, but other times you might find something useful or productive. Also, there will be times when special investments of time could result in other opportunities. Those Tic-Tacs... could be useful if you choose to try using them at certain points. I will never require you to use them for anything, they are really just tic-tacs. If you choose to forget you ever had them, then so-be-it. That's the point... I want you to decide what the point of that small clear case will be. When my previous DM gave me something similar (jawbreakers) I fed one to a particularly tough orc watching a certain cell block a friend of mine was trapped in. The cellmate was a prior PC that was captured and the player re-rolled a replacement... but I wanted to save him. I had the wizard cast invisibility on me, and I moved down to the lowest floor of the building and left a pile of gobstopers there (which I honestly thought were marbles) on the ground. That orc walked up and picked one of the many I layed out ... and [B]PUT IT IN HIS MOUTH![/b] to my surprise... and next thing you know he bolts out of the room screaming of a broken jaw! Classic moments in gaming history... [/QUOTE]
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