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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7732645" data-attributes="member: 29398">No, I don't know if there's anything there to discover - and I won't know until I explore the corridors.&nbsp; You owe it to your players to at least make passing mention of the corridors - whether it's a long walk or short; up or down or level; whether there's lots of intersecting passages, or few, or none; whether the corridors are damp or dusty or empty or well-used, etc., because that's what the PCs see.It comes down to a pace-of-play issue, I suppose.&nbsp; I don't always (or often) want to just rush from one action scene to the next, and I don't at all mind spending most of a session simply mapping and exploring what turn out to be empty corridors.&nbsp; There's always another session, and another after that...it's open-ended, after all; or it should be.It's both.The place in the quote above where I put the ^^^ is the railroad part.&nbsp; You jumped straight from talking to the angels to putting the PCs at the reliquary entrance (if memory serves, there was some distance to cover between the site of the angel conversation and the reliquary itself; and I don't recall the angels teleporting them or anything such) without a chance for the PCs to do anything in between...incuding talk further with the angels to get more info!&nbsp; You took options away from the players / PCs by skipping that journey - they'd have had several minutes at least in which to continue their chat with the angels.&nbsp; Who knows what they might have learned? <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Also, keep in mind that while you-as-DM might know there's no danger involved and that the journey is perfectly safe, the players / PCs very likely don't and must be given the chance to approach it with this in mind. (even just asking for assurance from the angels if the journey is safe would be a start, but you cut that off too).Lanefan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7732645, member: 29398"] No, I don't know if there's anything there to discover - and I won't know until I explore the corridors. You owe it to your players to at least make passing mention of the corridors - whether it's a long walk or short; up or down or level; whether there's lots of intersecting passages, or few, or none; whether the corridors are damp or dusty or empty or well-used, etc., because that's what the PCs see. It comes down to a pace-of-play issue, I suppose. I don't always (or often) want to just rush from one action scene to the next, and I don't at all mind spending most of a session simply mapping and exploring what turn out to be empty corridors. There's always another session, and another after that...it's open-ended, after all; or it should be. It's both. The place in the quote above where I put the ^^^ is the railroad part. You jumped straight from talking to the angels to putting the PCs at the reliquary entrance (if memory serves, there was some distance to cover between the site of the angel conversation and the reliquary itself; and I don't recall the angels teleporting them or anything such) without a chance for the PCs to do anything in between...incuding talk further with the angels to get more info! You took options away from the players / PCs by skipping that journey - they'd have had several minutes at least in which to continue their chat with the angels. Who knows what they might have learned? :) Also, keep in mind that while you-as-DM might know there's no danger involved and that the journey is perfectly safe, the players / PCs very likely don't and must be given the chance to approach it with this in mind. (even just asking for assurance from the angels if the journey is safe would be a start, but you cut that off too). Lanefan [/QUOTE]

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