D&D General RP style Problem solver?

[Paul Farquhar]

Well Irwin and Scott both went back to the river one time too many and died in action, so to speak.

As adventurers do. Danger is an addiction.

Clive was the guy hiring adventurers not the adventurer per se.

He started out doing it himself, then sent out others once he had accumulated enough (usually by killing people and stealing their stuff).

Livingstone and Stanley I will grant you but how many others at the time, doing similar things died in unmarked graves.

Lots, especially the women.

Carter is another of the well funded expedition in a relatively safe area.

An awful lot of fatalities for a "relatively safe area"!

 

[payn]

he also told us about (and no offensive to him, he is awesome this sounded boring) a campaign where they spend 6 sessions (it was monthly so 6 months out of game time) in a farming area where the family farm had a dozen workers and the DM had names personalities, even pictures for 20ish NPCs ranging from the 6year old to the old man who used to be an adventurer and now just wanted to pick vegies. they talked to them and no one attacked and no one had anything to hide and no one had a quest... but they got to RP interacting with them and getting to find out about each other (the characters the players had) by role playing dinner with different groups of them and games.
another player told him that sounded more like a session of down time to us, a few hours of rp, not multi sessions... and he agreed that was what he found weird we would spend months fighting or problem solving then 'skip' the real RP part of the role playing game calling it down time...

I got this thing called Saturday nights at the tavern so I dont need to role play this in a game. To each their own.

 

[DEFCON 1]

I'm sure there's a happy medium found between six sessions of just talking with a farming community and a dozen plot hooks handed out one after the other every time you arrive in town.

Heck, a standard trope that splits the difference is a village where the party interacts with the townsfolk on all kinds of simple, menial things, and then there is a job board the group can view and then "go get" a plot hook that sounds interesting to them. You don't plop a whole bunch of hooks at their feet, but you make them easy to find a few when the group is ready to get up and about.

 

[Vaalingrade]

I do personally like being able to RP downtime in-character where you just get to inhabit the character and the world, but wouldn't want that to be the whole experience.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

As all adventurers do. Danger is an addiction.

He started out doing it himself, then sent out others once he had accumulated enough (usually by killing people and stealing their stuff).

Two things here, before 1900 or so journeying anywhere was inherently dangerous. Even staying at home was dangerous. There were diseases you could catch and playing around with horses could kill you. Journeying to India was dangerous in and of its self in that one might not make it there or back but Clive was operating for and behalf of the East India Company. His biggest risks were disease and the voyages too and from. The odd battle now and again but he was a gentleman and disease was much more a risk than battle anywhere.

Still not as insane as the kind of stuff D&D characters get up to.

Re Carter
An awful lot of fatalities for a "relatively safe area"!

While I have never looked closely at the Carter expedition, how much worse was it compared the fatalities in the average construction project at the time.
Health and Safety in the nineteenth and early twentieth century was pretty much non existent.

I do agree that there are adrenaline junkies out there but I am not convinced that they will high and unknown levels of risk.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Two things here, before 1900 or so journeying anywhere was inherently dangerous.

That's the thing, isn't it? In the 21st century people have gotten used to the idea that life should be safe.

Certainly not something that should apply in D&Dland.

 

[iserith]

A friend pointed out to me that there are definitely Discord servers this player could join that really specialize in the sort of play they are describing. It might be worth recommending that to them. I've seen this on other servers I've been on where you'd know when the DM posts the game it's really more about this sort of thing than bold adventurers confronting deadly perils for gold and glory. This would tend to be sequestered in certain "Heavy RP" or "Deep Lore" channels from what I saw. Some people were definitely into it.

 

[Vaalingrade]

But usually dangerous thing where they have a high degree of control of the level of danger.

That they think they have a degree fo control over because doing actual research isn't in vogue.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

I'm sure there's a happy medium found between six sessions of just talking with a farming community and a dozen plot hooks handed out one after the other every time you arrive in town.

Heck, a standard trope that splits the difference is a village where the party interacts with the townsfolk on all kinds of simple, menial things, and then there is a job board the group can view and then "go get" a plot hook that sounds interesting to them. You don't plop a whole bunch of hooks at their feet, but you make them easy to find a few when the group is ready to get up and about.

I mean it sounds like I plopped them all down when I sumerize... but it was a town with almost 30 labeled places of interest, they only found out plots as they went...

its not like they walk in and just get told " here are the troubles" if they had not talked to the 'kid' who they saw looking moppy and kicking rocks by teh dried up well they would not have found out he was trying to get married...

 

[payn]

I mean it sounds like I plopped them all down when I sumerize... but it was a town with almost 30 labeled places of interest, they only found out plots as they went...

its not like they walk in and just get told " here are the troubles" if they had not talked to the 'kid' who they saw looking moppy and kicking rocks by teh dried up well they would not have found out he was trying to get married...

Yeah I dont think you are doing anything wrong. The more I hear this it sounds like disparate playstyle and its likely best to split.

Are you still concerned about adding folks to your group?