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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 4449153" data-attributes="member: 7177">All of these cost time - time he doesn't necessarily have."I've heard some reports of a goblin tribe in the province of Asfalah attacking local farms. Look into it, discover the causes, and put a stop to it if possible. If it's just a minor population boom, you should be able to handle it. If it's beyond your ability to cope with, report back to me.Here are the components for two Linked Portal rituals, as well as the sigils for the local wizards' guild - the guildmaster owes me some significant favors, so don't take lip from him. Good luck! Now excuse me, I've heard some disturbing reports from the Underdark that I need to look into..."Lives are always at stake. The question is where his powers are the most useful. Out there in a frontier situation to deal with a situation lower-level adventurers could deal with? Or investigating the schemes of some of his truly powerful enemies which might threaten the entire kingdom?He can't be everywhere at once.He has assistants. So do corporate executives and heads of government. But assistants can't really make the high-level decisions for them - which resources to spend, what to protect, where to make a difference.Who says they are being inactive? They are providing the PCs with resources and information. It's just that the crisis the PCs are dealing with right now is unlikely to be the only crisis at hand. And which crisis is the more serious one is often only discovered when it is too late.As it happens, these complaints echoes the complaints of military grunts throughout the ages. "General X spends all his time and resources on unit Y! Why doesn't he spend it on our unit? Can't he see that we are much more important?"But of course, none of the people on the frontline have enough knowledge to see the big picture. The same is true for PCs who haven't reached the level of the NPC yet.</blockquote>

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