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<blockquote data-quote="Kobold Boots" data-source="post: 7731995" data-attributes="member: 92239">Hi Lane - So on point one about players owning countries.&nbsp; I feel for you.&nbsp; I made that mistake once too.Here's the deal though, any player with significant wealth who tries to disrupt the region's status quo is going to have a lot of people looking to maintain it.&nbsp; Being completely honest, that's the kind of change that will have NPCs of completely divergent alignments working together to prevent it.&nbsp; Real world mercantile guilds of massive wealth ran into that problem when nobles simply banished them instead of paying debt, and had the might to do so.&nbsp; There's absolutely zero reason why wealth should be allowed to pool in the first place, players will mess up if challenged in a way they don't plan for.So I'd argue that every DM gets screwed once, then we get savvy.On the point of &quot;same characters avoid risk&quot; - Create an encounter where the party dies unless the super conservative character takes one.&nbsp; - Make it obvious but not rail roady - there are tons of ways to do this on a dungeon crawl or exploration mission.- When the party TPKs the other players will take care of it.&nbsp; When the party succeeds, problem solved.The world isn't always able to be worked around.&nbsp; If you get blamed for rail roading the character in question, tell them that you can't always avoid everything, even in real life people get cornered into things.&nbsp; If you've got to go meta, there's supposedly tons of examples of the player not pulling weight.To each his or her own.KB</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kobold Boots, post: 7731995, member: 92239"] Hi Lane - So on point one about players owning countries. I feel for you. I made that mistake once too. Here's the deal though, any player with significant wealth who tries to disrupt the region's status quo is going to have a lot of people looking to maintain it. Being completely honest, that's the kind of change that will have NPCs of completely divergent alignments working together to prevent it. Real world mercantile guilds of massive wealth ran into that problem when nobles simply banished them instead of paying debt, and had the might to do so. There's absolutely zero reason why wealth should be allowed to pool in the first place, players will mess up if challenged in a way they don't plan for. So I'd argue that every DM gets screwed once, then we get savvy. On the point of "same characters avoid risk" - Create an encounter where the party dies unless the super conservative character takes one. - Make it obvious but not rail roady - there are tons of ways to do this on a dungeon crawl or exploration mission. - When the party TPKs the other players will take care of it. When the party succeeds, problem solved. The world isn't always able to be worked around. If you get blamed for rail roading the character in question, tell them that you can't always avoid everything, even in real life people get cornered into things. If you've got to go meta, there's supposedly tons of examples of the player not pulling weight. To each his or her own. KB [/QUOTE]

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