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<blockquote data-quote="Burnside" data-source="post: 8619408" data-attributes="member: 6910340">Conveying that to the players can be awkward though. They can very easily assume it's a matter closer to home - like, &quot;We need to get the Speakers to stop doing this evil thing&quot;. It can potentially be hard to convey in-game that the characters are barking up the wrong tree. I can easily see inexperienced DMs having to say, &quot;Uh, folks, the adventure really doesn't anticipate you trying to convince the Speakers to stop the sacrifices and, um, I'm not sure who is even in charge of them or how they work or whose idea they were. So please stop trying to do that.&quot;These are both GREAT ideas. In my campaign, I conflated the Macreadus character with the chwinga druid character, and had that character hire the party to find a chwinga because chwinga magic was necessary to create the summer star, which could potentially end Auril's Winter. When the chwinga was found, the NPC departed to the Black Cabin to complete the Summer Star and told the party to meet there in a week.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Burnside, post: 8619408, member: 6910340"] Conveying that to the players can be awkward though. They can very easily assume it's a matter closer to home - like, "We need to get the Speakers to stop doing this evil thing". It can potentially be hard to convey [I]in-game[/I] that the characters are barking up the wrong tree. I can easily see inexperienced DMs having to say, "Uh, folks, the adventure really doesn't anticipate you trying to convince the Speakers to stop the sacrifices and, um, I'm not sure who is even in charge of them or how they work or whose idea they were. So please stop trying to do that." These are both GREAT ideas. In my campaign, I conflated the Macreadus character with the chwinga druid character, and had that character hire the party to find a chwinga because chwinga magic was necessary to create the summer star, which could potentially end Auril's Winter. When the chwinga was found, the NPC departed to the Black Cabin to complete the Summer Star and told the party to meet there in a week. [/QUOTE]

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