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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 460690" data-attributes="member: 5137">Exposition!And yet, soooo compelling <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. I agree. I didn't mention it (and should have), but this scenario was aimed directly at cliches, each twisted in some way.The cliche druid dryad was mobile; her cliche ranger love was a dove; the cliche stupid giants were stupid in a good way; etc. I thought I did a pretty good job, but my strengths probably lie with more serious scenarios <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.Thank you. There's only four real ingredients you can "hand carve": wood, bone, stone and ice. And of those, most people will think of wood when combined with "pipe". Now, if you'd said "sculpted", there'd be more leeway <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.An idea that I rejected was to have the setting be a glacier river canyon instead, and have the pipes be carved of ice, incidentally. However, it didn't fit as well with my planned conflict of interest or my use of stereotypes.This ties into my comments on stereotypes. In my head, it was actually playing out like an episode of Xena - I wanted the players to get hit with three hooks <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. Hence their interlocking nature.Well, as I mentioned, I was targetting stereotypes. But... I should have included twists. I really should have included a "how to make this scenario more serious" twist. Darn it!Agreed. This would have been far more appropriate if I'd simply put in a sentence saying that the druids had sent Murielle to check out the situation. It was implied by her sending reports to them, but I didn't come out and say that her job was to maintain balance. The best end situation from her job's point of view, would have been to indoctrinate the fire giants. Murielle's personal desires ran exactly counter to that, and is a textbook case of conflict of interest.But, as I said, I should have mentioned that it was her job, and that the druids were expecting her to resolve it to their satisfaction.</blockquote>

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