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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NJC207" data-source="post: 5377943" data-attributes="member: 94774">Player's perspectiveI would like to point out that (from a player's perspective) there was only one problem with the plot hooks. (I was a part of the game in question.) The DM asked us to create, not heros, but villins. He then asked for our motivations towards evil and our connections to the group (so we didn't stab each other in our sleep). The primary goals of our group were: Money. Murder. Kidnapping Dragonborn. With that in mind, we took a job that, through a series of events and some magic, landed us in the far north, literally freezing to death far from civilization.  That robbed us of every character hook we had. At that point, we had one goal: survive long enough to make it back down south to civilization, so we can take another job and continue with life.  The first plot hook we bypassed was a talking portrait. Having just been teleported to the ends of the earth by magic items against our will, we were not wanting to let it talk.  When we made it to the temple of the naga, the players, out of character, told the DM that we had no motivation to go inside, but we would SIMPLY BECAUSE HE WANTED US TO. We shamelessly metagamed to keep the plot rolling.  Once inside the underground temple, we find the prisoner who begs for help (to bad we are villins, not heros) and the NPC fails a bluff check to lie about the treasure in the cavern. We kill a group of nagas only to discover that their version of "money" are worthless peices of ceramic. So we leave.  We fight even more naga, and then, have just decided to stay and investigate now that the threat is gone, when the earth begins to shake. Since we are underground in an earthquake, we of course leave immediately.  Outside waits a purple worm. We are preparing to kill it when an npc tells us that it is unkillable. So we run away. (You have to understand, NOT running from impossible fights has been a problem with our group in the past.) We manage to escape, and, inadvertently, escape from the entire plot as we do so. We make it back down south, and the game ended due to no further DM plot.  So, that's it from our perspective.</blockquote>

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