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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 3767746" data-attributes="member: 11760">Then maybe you should cut back on the snideness and cute responses and read what people are saying.One more time: It's a load of crap for someone to ALWAYS be busy, especially if something is happening in their town. If the NPCs in question are really good aligned, the notion that they will let evil go by right under their noses, because the PCs, or someone, will take care of it, then they're not good-aligned any more.Now, if you have players who think this is A-OK -- and honestly, a lot of the folks on this thread insisting it's not a problem come off as FR readers, not DMs or players -- swell. But it's not a personal moral failing of the players or a failure of the DM if, eventually, the players roll their eyes when they hear the reason they have to go clean up the backyard of one of the Forgotten Realms' superheroes is that said superheroes are busy with something elsewhere again.Unless Elminster only has a Shadowdale home address for tax purposes, he's got to be home at some point.I've read "Concerns of the Mighty." I own (and like) the FRCS. But the "Concerns of the Mighty" sidebar is a sop and, frankly, doesn't really work in actual play.But like the oWoD, the Forgotten Realms has a ton of people who buy game books to read them, not play them. Naturally, they encounter few problems in actual play.</blockquote>