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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5174337" data-attributes="member: 22779">Now ain't that the troof.&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />&nbsp; I once told the players that they would be spending the winter pretty much snowed in in the small mountain village they were staying in.&nbsp; No biggie, I was going to narrate it in about thirty seconds, then get on with the game.They darn near revolted.&nbsp; &quot;Wait three whole months????!?!?!&nbsp; OMG!!?!?&quot;&nbsp; It totally blew my mind.&nbsp; That's the problem with hypotheticals.&nbsp; Sure, you've got Baron McEvilton.&nbsp; How do they know these things unless you, the DM, TELL them.&nbsp; In other words, it's not a player resource to be used.&nbsp; It's a DM stick to force them into following adventures.&nbsp; Do this, or it will be worse later.&nbsp; Do this or very bad things will happen.How is this not extremely heavy handed rail roading?Never said it was actually.&nbsp; I think I brought the mechanics point up from 3e which actually had some codified rules for it.&nbsp; If those existed previously, fine, let's hear them.&nbsp; I know Basic/Expert had something for it's Companion (or was it Masters?) set, but, I don't know those rules at all.AFAIK, the only rules in 1e were, &quot;you build your castle, followers come&quot;.&nbsp; That and a handful of tables about henchment that admittedly, we never used because it was just another way the DM was going to shaft us by having the henchmen rob us in our sleep.Me, I lean a LOT more towards having mechanics over letting the DM wing it.&nbsp; I've just had way too many bad wings.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 5174337, member: 22779"] Now ain't that the troof. :D I once told the players that they would be spending the winter pretty much snowed in in the small mountain village they were staying in. No biggie, I was going to narrate it in about thirty seconds, then get on with the game. They darn near revolted. "Wait three whole months????!?!?! OMG!!?!?" It totally blew my mind. That's the problem with hypotheticals. Sure, you've got Baron McEvilton. How do they know these things unless you, the DM, TELL them. In other words, it's not a player resource to be used. It's a DM stick to force them into following adventures. Do this, or it will be worse later. Do this or very bad things will happen. How is this not extremely heavy handed rail roading? Never said it was actually. I think I brought the mechanics point up from 3e which actually had some codified rules for it. If those existed previously, fine, let's hear them. I know Basic/Expert had something for it's Companion (or was it Masters?) set, but, I don't know those rules at all. AFAIK, the only rules in 1e were, "you build your castle, followers come". That and a handful of tables about henchment that admittedly, we never used because it was just another way the DM was going to shaft us by having the henchmen rob us in our sleep. Me, I lean a LOT more towards having mechanics over letting the DM wing it. I've just had way too many bad wings. [/QUOTE]

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