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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Old Fezziwig" data-source="post: 658921" data-attributes="member: 59">Hey, folks.  Lots of neat stuff here...Saeviomagy — The SOP makes sense and a bunch of folks have mentioned it — as soon as I have a session where the entire party's present, I'll bring that up and see where it goes.brief, possible OSM SpoilersPiratecat — The last session went really quickly (from Tamalruk through the riddle), so I don't know if it was just a question of who was present or the fact that I had more of a plan and felt more comfortable.  I did have a bit of fun with the party trying to find Tamalruk in the abandoned tunnels and they seemed to enjoy that.  As for kicking doors in, two sessions ago, I was really wishing that the NPC bard in our party was less of a scholar and more of a reckless swashbuckler.  Oh well. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />end OSM spoilersrounser — That's an interesting point.  It's something I'll have to think of the next time we play (Feb 7 or 8) — the session isn't fresh enough in my mind for me to recall if that was happening.LostSoul — This is pretty much what I've been doing — I make a couple of quick checks and see what they notice and then I include it in the initial description.  If they don't notice something or refuse to look, that's fine.Rune — I've been trying to take notes mentally on what works, what they seem excited about, and how things end up playing out.  One of the things that really interests me is what the characters remember.  As for the advice being obvious, it seems like obvious advice to me now, but I hadn't thought of it myself (obviously), so thanks. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  At any rate, the proactive-reactive thing will definitely be something I consider as I work up to the next session (which is the last session I'll be running OSM at, as they're just about through with it).  I'm not sure I really have time to throw it together in a story hour (I had started to, but, wow, that takes a lot of time to do), but we'll see where that heads.  Speaking of SH, are you still playing your OA dream campaign?  It was a great read; very vibrant.thanks,tKL</blockquote>

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