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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chris_Nightwing" data-source="post: 6073787" data-attributes="member: 882">I don't quite understand where the diplomacy check came into your scenario. If we think back to a traditional view of how NPCs react to PCs, then your homeowners might be suspicious, but they are not outright hostile, but neither are they neutral. If they were outright hostile, which I find unlikely when they live in a city full of strangers, sure, there's no chance of persuasion. If they are merely suspicious, it's just a higher DC diplomacy check, and there's no way you should shut down the conversation before they get a chance to make that check. The fact is, that these people must have some motivations: are they aware of the dungeon beneath their home? How will they respond if they are made aware? What might motivate them to agree to entry?I could imagine that some families might be bribeable - accepting a share of whatever loot the party finds. Others might be merely concerned for their safety, and go straight to the city watch to deal with the problem. Some may indeed be crazed survivalist leave-me-alone types, but then I would have expected them to make a number of enemies in the city who might help your party. Allow them, at the very least, to sense motive the homeowners, or to gather information at the inn about them, so that they might form an opinion of how to deal with these people, otherwise they appear to be a pointless and irrational barrier to your adventure.</blockquote>

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