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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gizmo33" data-source="post: 3304862" data-attributes="member: 30001">There must only be one city in the DnD world, because if there were two, then the second one would be destroyed because the PCs weren't around to protect it.  And destroyed by whom?  Apparently the BBEG can muster a force capable of destroying a city, but no one who founded or rules the city can muster a force capable of protecting it?  If you want to talk about "a world governed by D&D rules" then I should probably bring up the demographic rules that say how many NPCs of a certain class and level live in population centers, how much wealth they have, etc.  In any case, I don't see anything in the rules that suggest that NPCs/settlements are helpless - in fact I see the opposite.It would be like a group of PCs witnessing a 10th level fighter being ambushed by monsters.  The PCs intervene to help the NPC and then the NPC refuses to help the PCs fight the monsters that just ambushed him.  IMO if you want the players to find the "save the city" scenario to be plausible you have to take into account that a city (all cities) has some resources with which to defend itself.  It's possible that for some reason the city has temporarily lost it's ability to defend itself, and that information could be worked into the scenario.  There are decades of published adventures that attempt to deal with this situation (with various degrees of success).  If the DM can't structure the scenario in such a way that makes it plausible then maybe you're right about the players packing up.</blockquote>

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