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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 1268920" data-attributes="member: 70">My last campaign was a dungeon-crawl one.  The players were based in a frontier town/fort.  If they weren't in a dungeon, they were in town, getting drunk.  If they weren't drunk, it meant they'd run out of money and needed to go defile another temple of despicable nasty things.It was meant to be a fast-paced, fun, smash-the-doors-and-grab-the-loot sort of campaign, a change from the meandering "this is your life" sort of thing we'd been running.Some of the players really got into it -- I pushed interesting characters over complex backgrounds and maudlin plotlines.  The two best characters were a fearsome fighting bridge troll with a charisma so low no one was scared of him, and a half-hobgoblin rogue not quite clever enough to know the difference between a brothel and a nunnery (nothing bad happened -- the Book of Vile Darkness does NOT appear on the players' side of the table in my game!)My enthusiasm was eventually ground down by the rules lawyer/munchkin power gamer (I have a 12th level cleric/1st level monk with spellfire.  Why do I need a personality?) and the soap-opera plotline gamer (this is my last character's third cousin.  His parents were killed by maurading vampiric orcs, and he was raised by good aligned drow, who were killed by a red dragon, that my character killed at first level, and now he's going to found a fighting school to oppose vampiric half-dragon orcs).There's less hyperbole in that rant than you think.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I don't mind motivation, but some of the best adventures are spur-of-the-moment, what-the-hell-just-do-it affairs.  Too many campaigns, IMO, revolve around unwilling characters forced into desperate situations, and too few around adventursome characters doing something fun!OK, in real life killing monsters shouldn't be fun, but that's why D&D is a game.   <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" /> CheersNell.</blockquote>

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