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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Christian" data-source="post: 733806" data-attributes="member: 381">1. The SymptomThe specific line you refer to at the end states that the tracker must make another roll 'every time the tracks become difficult to follow'. That's obviously a spot for a DM judgment call if there ever was one. And on a well-traveled city street (which would also be DC20 'hard ground'), that could very easily be very frequently ...2. The CauseDON'T LET THE PLAYERS PUSH YOUR BUTTONS!! If you make a genuinely fair ruling, stick with it. While you knew that your misgivings were based on the difficulty of following one set of tracks of thousands on a well-used street, your players read both your desire for the villain to escape and your determination not to fall into the railroading habits of the other DM and talked you out of it. As long as you're being honest with yourself, the players will eventually stop expecting you to behave that way and enjoy the challenges they run up against without second-guessing them. But it may be a long, bumpy road. Eventually, the day will come when they see that a totally unexpected direction they take completely short-circuits the adventure, and you let them do it and allow the consequences to flow naturally anyway. And that's when the real fun starts. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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