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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8268448" data-attributes="member: 22779">Aside from Ghosts of Saltmarsh, how about the business running rules in Dragon Heist?  These are the WotC approved rules after all. The module spends a considerable amount of time on introducing all the NPC's and complications related to the group getting their tavern in order and ready for opening day.  All sorts of interesting stuff.Then, you open. And, now, the mechanics are, "Roll once every week on this table.  Here's half a dozen possible modifiers like advertising or whatnot.  The results on the table range from you make a couple of GP profit to you lose a couple of GP."  No connection whatsoever to the dozen or so NPC's you've JUST introduced to the party.  No reason whatsoever, to ever interact with these NPC's again and the DM is left pretty much left high and dry.And, because of the ridiculous PC economy, any inn simply doesn't matter.  It could lose money every single day, and the amount of money a mid level PC has will cover it, basically for eternity.  Whoopee?  Yay, I'm so glad we spent four or five sessions getting the inn open for this?  And, again, the system fights you every step of the way.  Making a small business actually matter to the PC's when they are buying 1000 gp magic items?  I don't blame the players at all for taking one look at Trollskull manner and their sum total reaction was, "Hey, look, there's a sewer entrance nearby".  They couldn't give a rat's petoot and I don't blame them one bit.  The mechanics for this were awful.And, frankly, I have no idea how to make it matter.  Why on earth would a PC give the slightest damn about the money an inn could possibly make?  It's chump change.  All that effort for what?  An imaginary doll house?  And, I've LOOKED at DM's guild stuff here.  Heck, I own most of the Dragonheist DM's Guild stuff.  And nothing fixed this.So, why wouldn't offering a different system, like Blades in the Dark, make a LOT more sense for this adventure path?  It would work 100 times better than D&D did.</blockquote>

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