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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 5669001" data-attributes="member: 10479">I based that off your description that they were looking for the structure and after defeating the dragon explored further.  Given your admonishment, I'll quote and look over the description again and then pose a number of questions lest I make the continuned assuming we are having a friendly discussion.It's pretty obvious they were looking around and that they had come out to the structure to look around, but I suppose that might be a leap.  Feel free to give more of your first hand details to enlighten how it is they managed to miss the hoard.  Please do so taking in mind the following, assumption-avoiding, questions . . .Would there have been any impediment to them going behind the building due to the swampy nature of the area?  Were you strictly only going to allow the hoard be found if someone specifically said they were going behind the building?  Were they always in move-by-move mode (as I previously surmised) or was there also general discussion of how they might be exploring the area?  As the GM (Facilitator) of the game did you make sure they were aware that they could easily circumnavigate the building or might they have assumed it was impassable terrain?  Were you doing this all verbally or did you use battlemats?  Were there player handout maps of the vicinity so that they could check off mentally where they had looked in the area and where they might still look?  Were there no windows or gaps in this structure that would have left a line of sight to the hoard from any place the groups or individuals in the group had explored?  Were there any time constraints on their exploration?  Were there any other encounters that needed to be handled during their exploration or could we assume the characters, if not the players, had every chance to be thorough in their exploration of th structure and the surroundings.Given the lack of a crystal ball, I might have further questions.  Thank you for your patience.</blockquote>

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