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<blockquote data-quote="BlackMoria" data-source="post: 3928654" data-attributes="member: 424">Oh ... Really?The clique old chestnut of the Baron or Mayor appoaches the party to help with some problem.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; The Baron is higher level than the party.&nbsp; The Baron has retainers and commands the local militia.&nbsp; The baron has political influence with nearby towns or with the king.&nbsp; The Baron has a hell of lot more resources than a party of low level adventurers to deal with the problem.&nbsp; Why isn't the Baron getting off his royal sorry ass and cowboying up to deal with the&nbsp; problem?&nbsp; Yet this setup I have seen in modules time and again.&nbsp; Yet, reading some comments from others in this thread, it appears the apathetic Baron is only a problem unique to the FR campaign setting but isn't a problem in any other setting.Yeah, right&nbsp; :\ Temple of Elemental Evil - why isn't the higher level NPCs in the various churches (like the Church of St Cuthbert) and the ex-adventurers in the keep in town dealing with the growing cult of elemental evil in their own backyard?&nbsp;&nbsp; I don't hear people complaining about those high level NPCs.&nbsp; Yet we have ex-adventurers and the cleric of the church of St Cuthbert kicking back and letting a much lower level party of adventurers deal a problem right in their own backyard.&nbsp; Last time I checked, that adventure was a Greyhawk, not a FR adventure.I can point out similar instances of the higher-ups ducking their responsible and imposing on a lower level party of 4 to 5 people to save their town/village/whatever in dozens of printed modules.The 'why aren't the high level NPCs dealing with this?' is indefensible as a argument in light of 30 years of published adventures.&nbsp; The Baron is asking the party for their help because THAT is the adventure or plot hook.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BlackMoria, post: 3928654, member: 424"] Oh ... Really? The clique old chestnut of the Baron or Mayor appoaches the party to help with some problem. Why? The Baron is higher level than the party. The Baron has retainers and commands the local militia. The baron has political influence with nearby towns or with the king. The Baron has a hell of lot more resources than a party of low level adventurers to deal with the problem. Why isn't the Baron getting off his royal sorry ass and cowboying up to deal with the problem? Yet this setup I have seen in modules time and again. Yet, reading some comments from others in this thread, it appears the apathetic Baron is only a problem unique to the FR campaign setting but isn't a problem in any other setting. Yeah, right :\ Temple of Elemental Evil - why isn't the higher level NPCs in the various churches (like the Church of St Cuthbert) and the ex-adventurers in the keep in town dealing with the growing cult of elemental evil in their own backyard? I don't hear people complaining about those high level NPCs. Yet we have ex-adventurers and the cleric of the church of St Cuthbert kicking back and letting a much lower level party of adventurers deal a problem right in their own backyard. Last time I checked, that adventure was a Greyhawk, not a FR adventure. I can point out similar instances of the higher-ups ducking their responsible and imposing on a lower level party of 4 to 5 people to save their town/village/whatever in dozens of printed modules. The 'why aren't the high level NPCs dealing with this?' is indefensible as a argument in light of 30 years of published adventures. The Baron is asking the party for their help because THAT is the adventure or plot hook. [/QUOTE]

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