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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 6422352" data-attributes="member: 67338">There is a first time to introduce everything, and it can be done well or poorly. If you take someone who never read spiderman, and show him 5 issues, the first one he uses his proportional speed and str of a spider, and his webs plus the wall crawl he thinks he has a handle on it.     then bam in the second issue he claims to have a spider sense that is some danger sense... he always had it, but it didn't come up. in the next issue, he needs to follow someone so he throws a spider tracker... wait where did that come from? well it just got used. More on point the third and fourth issue is a 2 parter with a tech based villain that kicks his but. WHat does spidy do, he calls his best friend who he plays pool and double dates with Johnny. Johnny by luck lives with his sister and brother in law, and his brother in law reed is one of the top 5 smartest people in the world... wait is that a deus EX machine? NO it's just something, a resource that is only being used now and not before... the fifth issue is worse still, when the whole city is invaded by venom synbiotes, spidy doesn't call his best friend, he reatches into a wallet and pulls out a card. That card is a communicater for him to call a bunch of powerful allies this reader hasn't seen yet... he just says "Avengers Assembel" and Iron man, cap, wolvrien, luke cage, iron fist, and spiderwoman all show up.In the game the Ninja clan isn't just some Deus Ex Machine, it is the players teacher that is assumed to have always been there... I'm not sure what your saying here... I designed a city that something the PCs needed was in, they had to find away to do so. One PC suggested that there old Ninja trainer could help... so <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:" /> DM: the item you need to complete your quest is locaeted in "Storm Keep" it's a powerful fortress city built 8 generations ago by combined tinker gnomes and mystic fey gnomes. It is made of Adamantine and Mythral and full of technological and magic traps. The main keep itself id practically impregnable...Player 1: SInce I'm a cool Ninja, I was trained by blind assassin guru on the Mountin citadel not far from there, I want to go there and get help from the clan to find a weak spot and maybe help us in...sounds exactly like what you wanted... DM describes the world, players describe there action...   agreed um... ok but they can also use common sense resources to help them... everyone is trained by someone everyone has parents that raised them, everyone has childhood friends... this is all resources at there disposle. it is not some magical deus ex machine... it is just the gameisn't that the same thing...DM: You walk into the city of Sheni, it's an elven city of splendor.PC playing a half elf: Cool, can I have lived here with my semi noble family as a kidDM: SurePC playing half elf: Cool, we can stay at my place in town...</blockquote>

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