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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ranes" data-source="post: 1348964" data-attributes="member: 4826">The spontaneous examination of blatantly mundande rocks actually happened in an old campaign of mine, during the first session. The were six players, one of whom was a newbie. The party had spent the first day acquiring equipment and encountering a potentially significant wagonner NPC. The next morning, a plot hook confronts the party at breakfast when a wealthy traveller calls on the militia after finding he has been robbed in his sleep. The party decide they're going to recover the lost goods for the reward. Their initial investigation reveals that of the inn's guests, only the wagonner has left. A stable boy saw him leave just before dawn. The boy thinks the wagon went east. The party walks two hundred yards to the east, where they encounter a dried river bed intersecting the road out of town. Fresh wagon tracks have cut the river bed and left a dark trail of mud heading eastwards along the road beyond. One of the party (yes, it was the newbie) indicates that his character will investigate the river bed. I tell him his character finds stones, twigs, weeds and puddles and mud. He tells me his character is picking up one of the stones [I just mentioned, of course] and is examining it closely. At this point one of the other players asks what the characters thinks he's doing. The newbie angrily retorts, "It might be a clue!" Ah yes. It was then that I knew they would meet their doom.</blockquote>

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