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<blockquote data-quote="MechaPilot" data-source="post: 6879343" data-attributes="member: 82779">I've had players in a homebrew campaign settle in one location instead of wandering the world as originally intended.&nbsp; There are a couple of options that are available to rectify that:1) Lure them away.&nbsp; This might require a significant piece of bait, perhaps one more significant than you're willing to hand out, but it's probably the least intrusive option.2) Burn it down!&nbsp; The players probably won't stay in a location that is completely destroyed by an army, a dragon, a natural disaster, or some other catastrophe that destroys the location in question.&nbsp; This is undeniably heavy-handed, but you can also tie it into option number one by making vengeance against the destroyer(s) the lure.3) The PCs' patron owes another NPC wealth or favors, and sends the party off to help her creditor.&nbsp; You could then create some kind of incentive to dissuade them from going back to the original location.4) The patron betrays the party for some reason (which should make sense in the story you've established thus far), giving the party less incentive to stay in that location.With regard to the deities and religion aspect, that's a bit harder.&nbsp; In the ubiquity of magic thread I recall posting that it's hard to make magic seem rare when you allow magic users as character choices.&nbsp; If you want the deities to be distant and their influence to be rare, clerics and paladins should probably not be allowed as PC choices.&nbsp; However, you have allowed that.&nbsp; So, unless you want to ask them to write up new characters that ship has sailed.Now, that's not to say that you're screwed on this one.&nbsp; The influence of the gods is not going to seem rare to the players when they have a cleric and paladin among them.&nbsp; However, you can still play up this rarity when they perform miracles in the eyes of NPCs.&nbsp; A cleric who casts a divine spell in sight of average people could easily find herself overwhelmed with people proclaiming her to be a deity or a prophet who speaks with a deity, or some kind of witch/trickster who must be dealt with via mob justice.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MechaPilot, post: 6879343, member: 82779"] I've had players in a homebrew campaign settle in one location instead of wandering the world as originally intended. There are a couple of options that are available to rectify that: 1) Lure them away. This might require a significant piece of bait, perhaps one more significant than you're willing to hand out, but it's probably the least intrusive option. 2) Burn it down! The players probably won't stay in a location that is completely destroyed by an army, a dragon, a natural disaster, or some other catastrophe that destroys the location in question. This is undeniably heavy-handed, but you can also tie it into option number one by making vengeance against the destroyer(s) the lure. 3) The PCs' patron owes another NPC wealth or favors, and sends the party off to help her creditor. You could then create some kind of incentive to dissuade them from going back to the original location. 4) The patron betrays the party for some reason (which should make sense in the story you've established thus far), giving the party less incentive to stay in that location. With regard to the deities and religion aspect, that's a bit harder. In the ubiquity of magic thread I recall posting that it's hard to make magic seem rare when you allow magic users as character choices. If you want the deities to be distant and their influence to be rare, clerics and paladins should probably not be allowed as PC choices. However, you have allowed that. So, unless you want to ask them to write up new characters that ship has sailed. Now, that's not to say that you're screwed on this one. The influence of the gods is not going to seem rare to the players when they have a cleric and paladin among them. However, you can still play up this rarity when they perform miracles in the eyes of NPCs. A cleric who casts a divine spell in sight of average people could easily find herself overwhelmed with people proclaiming her to be a deity or a prophet who speaks with a deity, or some kind of witch/trickster who must be dealt with via mob justice. [/QUOTE]

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