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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8028812" data-attributes="member: 20564">Last session was ... the players asking to be railroaded.&nbsp; Campaign was explicit in session zero that there will be more hooks out there than can followed up on, and part of that is that not all challenges will equally as dangerous.Anyway, in this session they arrived in the frontier, had a whole bunch of potential things offered as well as following up on leads from an assassination attempt on them made earlier. But they basically asked an authority figure &quot;what's the biggest threat to the Imperium around, and are bee-lining towards it. No through that the biggest threat might be an actual threat bigger than they can handle.Veteran players, but most of them haven't played with me as DM before and this is only the 2nd session, little time to train them that just because something is there means it's a fair fight to try to take on.So basically they want to be fed a plot, and the criteria that they asked for will put them on course for things I had signaled was one of the biggest dangers around, laying groundwork for later levels.That doesn't mean they can't go do it - just that for parts of it if they try to turn it into combat they will find retreat is likely the best choice.&nbsp; Willfully - I need to show them that not everything is level specific in my world otherwise that will never impact their choices of where to go.Anyway, there's side-quests on the way, so I hope to level them up some before they get there.&nbsp; Not to the levels they need, but enough to survive.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 8028812, member: 20564"] Last session was ... the players asking to be railroaded. Campaign was explicit in session zero that there will be more hooks out there than can followed up on, and part of that is that not all challenges will equally as dangerous. Anyway, in this session they arrived in the frontier, had a whole bunch of potential things offered as well as following up on leads from an assassination attempt on them made earlier. But they basically asked an authority figure "what's the biggest threat to the Imperium around, and are bee-lining towards it. No through that the biggest threat might be an actual threat bigger than they can handle. Veteran players, but most of them haven't played with me as DM before and this is only the 2nd session, little time to train them that just because something is there means it's a fair fight to try to take on. So basically they want to be fed a plot, and the criteria that they asked for will put them on course for things I had signaled was one of the biggest dangers around, laying groundwork for later levels. That doesn't mean they can't go do it - just that for parts of it if they try to turn it into combat they will find retreat is likely the best choice. Willfully - I need to show them that not everything is level specific in my world otherwise that will never impact their choices of where to go. Anyway, there's side-quests on the way, so I hope to level them up some before they get there. Not to the levels they need, but enough to survive. [/QUOTE]

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