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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barastrondo" data-source="post: 5743294" data-attributes="member: 3820">Hm.If he's the smartest man in the world, and he notes that the PCs are the sort to bulldoze their way through dungeons, is it feasible that he would hire a cleaner team to go through said dungeon when the PCs have cleared it out to collect evidence they may have missed? I mean, if you know the PCs have a pretty solid chance of failing to pick up on subtleties, maybe the smartest man in the world would also be able to account for that.As much as I like consistency, I wouldn't drag gameability onto its altar and plunge the sacrificial knife downwards. Not with an adventure that is being played out as a game.Are you emotionally attached to either of these "plot" points? Is a wizard too crazy to say anything that makes sense at all a feature rather than a bug? Is it also too problematic for a man who is so insane he cannot make sense to do something pointless?Only because this adventure may have carefully constructed its "non-random" elements to serve the plot. Is the important person far away because that makes sense, or because otherwise someone might find him? Is the wizard mad because that makes sense, or is he mad because that way the players have to find the secret compartment? I think the instant you require a wizard to be insane for reasons of plot, some random-seeming elements become entirely feasible -- at least for the usual RPG handwavy definition of "mad."</blockquote>

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