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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bloodtide" data-source="post: 9745351" data-attributes="member: 6684958">8. Now consider that the PCs have pissed off someone important, who hires an assassin to target them. The fact that this assassin will find them, follow them and "appear out of nowhere as they try to sleep" feels less contrived, because of the in-game rationale for the assassin to a) follow them b) not likely be seen, c) attack them, and d) do so as they are resting .This is not Railroading. This is simply an event that happens in the game.This is classic player “anything I don’t like is Railroading”.A lot of players would make the demand that their characters must have a “chance” to detect the assassins. Again, this is just meatgaming. There is no reason the PC should get a chance. Even an average sneaky NPC can find and follow the PCs without walking right up to the PCs.Even more so with magic, it is hard for the PCs to hide from trackers. Even more, if they stick to the by-the-book rules and things like magic items. There are tons of holes that can be exploited.And easy one is ‘speaking with the dead’, as there is no by-the-book magic way to block that. But the average player will never think of that.</blockquote>