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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5006507" data-attributes="member: 58197"><p>It's more like, "If this ditch is not dug by 5:00 this afternoon, the company will go bankrupt. Mr. Foreman, you are seven feet tall and built like a tank, whereas we're a bunch of skinny geeks from the IT department who get most of our exercise rolling dice on Saturday night. We're happy to do what we can, but for the sake of the company it seems like things would go a lot better if you pitched in here."</p><p></p><p>As I said elsewhere, this situation crops up when two things are true: The quest is of utmost importance, and the NPC is known to be much more powerful and capable than the PCs. The question is asked not out of laziness but because it looks, from a strategic perspective, like a moronic decision to put the PCs in charge of this task instead of the NPC.</p><p></p><p>Now, there are plenty of reasons why it might in fact be a good strategy to put the PCs in charge. Most of them boil down to either, "The NPC has other things to take care of, also critically important, which only s/he can do," or, "The NPC is not capable of performing this quest for some reason."</p><p></p><p>Alternatively, one of the two premises above can be invalidated. Maybe the quest isn't of utmost importance; in that case, the NPC can reply, "Because I don't want to be bothered with this, so I'm hiring you," without completely undermining the setup of the mission. Or maybe the NPC is not in fact vastly more powerful than the PCs.</p><p></p><p>The problem is not a difficult one to solve. But it does need a solution.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 5006507, member: 58197"] It's more like, "If this ditch is not dug by 5:00 this afternoon, the company will go bankrupt. Mr. Foreman, you are seven feet tall and built like a tank, whereas we're a bunch of skinny geeks from the IT department who get most of our exercise rolling dice on Saturday night. We're happy to do what we can, but for the sake of the company it seems like things would go a lot better if you pitched in here." As I said elsewhere, this situation crops up when two things are true: The quest is of utmost importance, and the NPC is known to be much more powerful and capable than the PCs. The question is asked not out of laziness but because it looks, from a strategic perspective, like a moronic decision to put the PCs in charge of this task instead of the NPC. Now, there are plenty of reasons why it might in fact be a good strategy to put the PCs in charge. Most of them boil down to either, "The NPC has other things to take care of, also critically important, which only s/he can do," or, "The NPC is not capable of performing this quest for some reason." Alternatively, one of the two premises above can be invalidated. Maybe the quest isn't of utmost importance; in that case, the NPC can reply, "Because I don't want to be bothered with this, so I'm hiring you," without completely undermining the setup of the mission. Or maybe the NPC is not in fact vastly more powerful than the PCs. The problem is not a difficult one to solve. But it does need a solution. [/QUOTE]
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