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Hoard of the Dragon Queen: As it Turns out, it's Pretty Good (so far)
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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Semana" data-source="post: 6365538" data-attributes="member: 6763088"><p>I had a much longer reply but it boils down to this. You are mixing up the fact that there are 7 <em>provided</em> missions by thinking there are 7 <em>critical</em> missions. I'm sorry but it seems you are ignoring or misread the part where<strong> you are not required to put your players through all missions</strong>. Just because they're there doesn't mean they're mandatory, required, or critical. AT ALL. <span style="color: #000000">If the party took 2 short rests then they would have 2 less missions to take on, 5 total and not 7, remove 2 from the remain roster of potential events. If they took a 3rd rest that would be 4 total and not 7, choose which one is left. </span>You are expected to allow this, you're not 'correcting' the adventure by doing this. You're expected to run the number of missions as appropriate to your table. Saying "sorry, that's what it says in the adventure" is not valid. Especially when the text explicitly assigns the responsibility to you, the DM, and instructs you on how to treat the number of mission and rests within that timeframe.</p><p></p><p>From a story-telling stand point, the characters don't know what carnage is happening out there, and it hasn't happened yet. They don't know what they're missing by resting (until you tell them). It's up to you to 'write' your fiction and decide which (if any) of the missions the party missed actually happened. Either way is legitimate.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If you presented your players with their predicament and they chose to 'cowboy up' then that's an out-of-character decision by <em>players</em> wanting not to miss any part of the adventure options and your decision to run them through it. Which is a perfectly legitimate exercise, but it's not actually the adventure "as written".</p><p></p><p>I think if reading the adventure that wasn't clear in the first place, <a href="http://www.thetomeshow.com/e/when-kobolds-meet-tiamat-kobold-press-tyranny-of-dragons-panel-gencon-2014/" target="_blank">it would be useful to listen to Kobold's intention behind the adventure design</a> (specifically from min 26 where they address exactly this episode and this question).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Semana, post: 6365538, member: 6763088"] I had a much longer reply but it boils down to this. You are mixing up the fact that there are 7 [I]provided[/I] missions by thinking there are 7 [I]critical[/I] missions. I'm sorry but it seems you are ignoring or misread the part where[B] you are not required to put your players through all missions[/B]. Just because they're there doesn't mean they're mandatory, required, or critical. AT ALL. [COLOR=#000000]If the party took 2 short rests then they would have 2 less missions to take on, 5 total and not 7, remove 2 from the remain roster of potential events. If they took a 3rd rest that would be 4 total and not 7, choose which one is left. [/COLOR]You are expected to allow this, you're not 'correcting' the adventure by doing this. You're expected to run the number of missions as appropriate to your table. Saying "sorry, that's what it says in the adventure" is not valid. Especially when the text explicitly assigns the responsibility to you, the DM, and instructs you on how to treat the number of mission and rests within that timeframe. From a story-telling stand point, the characters don't know what carnage is happening out there, and it hasn't happened yet. They don't know what they're missing by resting (until you tell them). It's up to you to 'write' your fiction and decide which (if any) of the missions the party missed actually happened. Either way is legitimate. If you presented your players with their predicament and they chose to 'cowboy up' then that's an out-of-character decision by [I]players[/I] wanting not to miss any part of the adventure options and your decision to run them through it. Which is a perfectly legitimate exercise, but it's not actually the adventure "as written". I think if reading the adventure that wasn't clear in the first place, [URL="http://www.thetomeshow.com/e/when-kobolds-meet-tiamat-kobold-press-tyranny-of-dragons-panel-gencon-2014/"]it would be useful to listen to Kobold's intention behind the adventure design[/URL] (specifically from min 26 where they address exactly this episode and this question). [/QUOTE]
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