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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dioltach" data-source="post: 8345630" data-attributes="member: 21843">What's wrong with preparing a challenge and thrusting it on the PCs? That pretty much happens in all S&S.Also, as DM, you have a responsibility to invent the scenarios and create the challenges for the players to overcome. It's all very well to say, "I don't want to tell the players what to do," but you at least have to present them with something to react against. In my example above, where the soldiers of the Evil Vizier have been sent to uncover an ancient tomb, you can describe how the villagers are fleeing at the sight of the soldiers riding up. Then let the players choose. Do they fight the soldiers, even though their vastly outnumbered and under-equipped? Do they talk to the soldiers? Do they hide, and see the soldiers roughly questioning one or two locals about where the tomb is? Etc. If things start dragging, have the PCs be made captive, or the Big Evil escapes from its tomb, or a small child wants to attack the soldiers who are being mean to her daddy.In S&S it's pretty easy to engages the players: just kickstart the action. It's not like heroic fantasy, where you need a whole backstory and buildup, and clues and hints, and long journeys. In S&S it's right there in your face.One thing that I might add if I ever went full S&S: in the first round of action, you do extra melee damage equal to the difference between your Initiative and your opponent's. Or something like that. Unless you're surprised, you can avoid falling victim to this yourself by rolling your initiative before the actual fighting begins, and holding off your action until things kick off. Maybe for a max number of rounds equal to your CON bonus or something.</blockquote>

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