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<blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 7182979" data-attributes="member: 945">Ultimate goal would be to save the town, I suppose. It's literally intended to be a side-quest in my campaign. They are just stopping in this town because it's the last place along the river before it opens up to the ocean, and they are searching for something else.</blockquote>What happens if the PCs buy food, drink and supplies in town? What are they actually eating?[/quote]Great question, see, that's why I started this thread. Illusions, perhaps. I could tell them that despite having eaten, they are starving. This sounds like it's within the purview of a Wish - maybe not the actual Wish spell, but the ability of a wish-granting creature. For that matter, such an ability could even manage an actual time loop, if you wanted to go that way.For maintaining the illusion for the players, I'd suggest having, say, ten major NPCs and writing down the major events of the day as it plays out from each of their perspectives. That way you know what changes for whom when the PCs intervene in events.If you do stick with it being an illusion, don't make the characters too compelling or let the players to through too many loops. In a story, having the protagonists become invested in a group of people only to find out that they don't really exist can be played out as tragic and full of pathos, but in a game, having the players find out that the people and events they've been engaging with, maybe for multiple sessions, are just illusions is more likely to piss them off.[/QUOTE]Yea, I was going to create several stories - the bulette, for example, is just one story.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="der_kluge, post: 7182979, member: 945"] Ultimate goal would be to save the town, I suppose. It's literally intended to be a side-quest in my campaign. They are just stopping in this town because it's the last place along the river before it opens up to the ocean, and they are searching for something else. [/quote]What happens if the PCs buy food, drink and supplies in town? What are they actually eating?[/quote] Great question, see, that's why I started this thread. Illusions, perhaps. I could tell them that despite having eaten, they are starving. This sounds like it's within the purview of a Wish - maybe not the actual Wish spell, but the ability of a wish-granting creature. For that matter, such an ability could even manage an actual time loop, if you wanted to go that way. For maintaining the illusion for the players, I'd suggest having, say, ten major NPCs and writing down the major events of the day as it plays out from each of their perspectives. That way you know what changes for whom when the PCs intervene in events. If you do stick with it being an illusion, don't make the characters too compelling or let the players to through too many loops. In a story, having the protagonists become invested in a group of people only to find out that they don't really exist can be played out as tragic and full of pathos, but in a game, having the players find out that the people and events they've been engaging with, maybe for multiple sessions, are just illusions is more likely to piss them off.[/QUOTE] Yea, I was going to create several stories - the bulette, for example, is just one story. [/QUOTE]

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