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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 5792754" data-attributes="member: 20323">Yeah, I can always use a "bang" when they get stuck.Yep, with the caveat that they must be informed and meaningful choices. The PCs were trying to find a way to a hidden cog in Mechanus, and were traversing a clockwork labyrinth to find it. They'd also been asked by a hierarch modron to rescue some underlings trapped in the labyrinth. When the PCs had the option to take a short-cut to the hidden cog, they took it: the entire clockwork labyrinth began to tilt upside down (the PCs were shielded from this effect), and I described gears clanging and modrons falling over each other. I asked if the group was going through with the short-cut. They were. So the trapped modrons were tossed out of the labyrinth into freefall, presumably to die, and the PCs fast-forwarded to the hidden cog.A simple choice with clear consequences.So far that's amounted to rewarding thievery <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Or, at least, misguided reappropriation.I've had the same thing happen! Only instead of "big magic item" it was "artifact." I think it's supposed to accommodate the DM's creative input. Heh.</blockquote>