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<blockquote data-quote="GX.Sigma" data-source="post: 6143576" data-attributes="member: 6690511">It's weird how people are saying that if an NPC were to react according to his interests within his abilities, that would be a railroad; whereas having a pre-scripted, EL-appropriate encounter wouldn't.If the artifact is that powerful, then surely lots of powerful people want it for their own grander purposes (e.g., if it's Thor's hammer, Thor just comes down and takes it back). Actually, it's probably already in the hands of powerful people who won't let a couple of level 1 chumps just come in and take it. However you take the artifact away from the players, maybe make it have something to do with why it was so easy to get in the first place (like the demilich who owns it was astral projecting at the time, or nobody wants it because it turns you into a mindless ooze little-by-little every time you touch it, or it's an intelligent item that eats people then hides itself and spreads rumors about itself so more people come in and it can eat them).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GX.Sigma, post: 6143576, member: 6690511"] It's weird how people are saying that if an NPC were to react according to his interests within his abilities, that would be a railroad; whereas having a pre-scripted, EL-appropriate encounter wouldn't. If the artifact is that powerful, then surely lots of powerful people want it for their own grander purposes (e.g., if it's Thor's hammer, Thor just comes down and takes it back). Actually, it's probably already in the hands of powerful people who won't let a couple of level 1 chumps just come in and take it. However you take the artifact away from the players, maybe make it have something to do with why it was so easy to get in the first place (like the demilich who owns it was astral projecting at the time, or nobody wants it because it turns you into a mindless ooze little-by-little every time you touch it, or it's an intelligent item that eats people then hides itself and spreads rumors about itself so more people come in and it can eat them). [/QUOTE]

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