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<blockquote data-quote="Herobizkit" data-source="post: 7228435" data-attributes="member: 36150">As a graybeard (over 30 years of D&amp;D experience), it chaffs me when 1st-5th level PC &quot;bums&quot; decide they want to be landowners and the players go insane when they can't do this out of the gate (the pre-gen's gate in this case).&nbsp; If one of them had rolled&nbsp; Noble background, it'd be only slightly less of an issue.&nbsp; As is, they said:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">at character creation: &quot;we wanna be adventuring mercs and have few ties to the world so we can explore!&quot;</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">presented with Nightstone: &quot;we wanna take over and use our gold to build up the town!&quot;</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Immediately followed by: &quot;why do we not have all the gold we need? This adventure is stingy.&quot;</li>
</ul>To which I replied, &quot;Perhaps you'll need to travel and find new sources of revenue.&quot;And in response, &quot;But we want it nooooow!&quot; ^_^ They are impatient players, and with good reason - most games fall apart before they ever get past level 5 due to lack of interest, desire to play something new (class, race, w/e) or just plain real life gets in the way.&nbsp;&nbsp; As is, one guy's homebrew (upon which he has been working since spring)&nbsp; is due to start next month and now another player has voiced interest in running the Strahd pre-gen.&nbsp; Every time they hear 'new game' they jump up and down 'yay new characters!' and forget about the ongoing one.All these games and not enough time... so sad.But anyhow, my game is on temporary hiatus as I'm gearing up to move to a new city, so I expect the lack of gaming has got them all thinking about future possibilities.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Herobizkit, post: 7228435, member: 36150"] As a graybeard (over 30 years of D&D experience), it chaffs me when 1st-5th level PC "bums" decide they want to be landowners and the players go insane when they can't do this out of the gate (the pre-gen's gate in this case). If one of them had rolled Noble background, it'd be only slightly less of an issue. As is, they said: [LIST] [*]at character creation: "we wanna be adventuring mercs and have few ties to the world so we can explore!" [*]presented with Nightstone: "we wanna take over and use our gold to build up the town!" [*]Immediately followed by: "why do we not have all the gold we need? This adventure is stingy." [/LIST] To which I replied, "Perhaps you'll need to travel and find new sources of revenue." And in response, "But we want it nooooow!" ^_^ They are impatient players, and with good reason - most games fall apart before they ever get past level 5 due to lack of interest, desire to play something new (class, race, w/e) or just plain real life gets in the way. As is, one guy's homebrew (upon which he has been working since spring) is due to start next month and now another player has voiced interest in running the Strahd pre-gen. Every time they hear 'new game' they jump up and down 'yay new characters!' and forget about the ongoing one. All these games and not enough time... so sad. But anyhow, my game is on temporary hiatus as I'm gearing up to move to a new city, so I expect the lack of gaming has got them all thinking about future possibilities. [/QUOTE]

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