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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 4867415" data-attributes="member: 3887">Yes it does. Bound to happen sooner or later in D&D. And mind you, I play an extraordinarily talky kind of D&D... D&D has combat encounters. They're a lot like fight scenes.Or it's a part of adventure design. And use the terms 'adventure' and 'design' loosely... I'm saying Minions are a tool for describing combatants. Whether non-combat options exist is entirely up to the DM. Minions themselves don't imply there is a specific story being told any more than the monster stats found in classic AD&D modules do. You're preaching to the choir here... In our 4e campaign set in the Port our group tried to settle a feud by writing and then putting on a musical (FYI, it was called "Porky and Bless'd" - about our pig-god). We spent one whole session staging of it. Admittedly, there was some combat as our rival playwright hired some doppelganger assassins who had infiltrated our chorus... I wrote the outline of the play. My buddy Steve wrote out one of the songs. It sounded a bit like something from the The Music Man... I tend to send an area as a series of potential scenes (though I always have a rough idea about what's in the broader location). Not 'wedded to'. Prepared for. They should be prepared for one to morph into the other at a moment's notice. See, I'm not sure I'd ever play in a Adventure Path, let alone run one, or something like one. I'll check it out!</blockquote>