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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5666425" data-attributes="member: 54877">This rarely happens to me, but when it did, it was a doozy.  The group was my main college group, a good two thirds of which had never played D&D or any roleplaying until we started a Fantasy Hero game. So in fairness, there wasn't quite the emphasis on treasure that D&D often has.  But the 3 guys that had played D&D were certainly aware of it and usually made sure to check. So I was still in "storytelling" mode often, and I placed a magic sword that was key to certain challenges that were coming up.  It wasn't absolutely necessary, but having it was probably the difference between reasonable challenge versus real risk of characters dying. I put the sword in a somewhat tough location to find, but certainly something they could locate if they searched.  They didn't search. No problem, I think.  I'll just place it later.  I made it a little easier.  They bypassed it.  The challenge it is needed for is months off in real time.  So I keep trying.   They skipped that sword five or six times, if I remember correctly.  The last time they bypassed it, it was hanging on the wall in plain sight, in a hall where they fought the big bad for that adventure.  They didn't actually get the sword until the middle of the fight where they needed it, when I had it glowing in a pool in the room where the fight occurred.  And even then, it took a new guy going with the flow for them to get it.   I'd say they were so nervous that they wouldn't try stuff, but we never lost a character during that whole two year campaign.  Later, I got deliberately toughter on them, and looking for stuff gradually became a priority. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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