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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GrimCo" data-source="post: 9855978" data-attributes="member: 7044462">I get that some people really don't like premise of their belongings getting stolen. It's not everybody's cup of tea. Same with getting captured, getting their items destroyed, mind controled etc. On the other hand, there is chunk of people who don't mind that as adventure hook. Pretty much all my friends and acquaintances that play D&D and myself fall into that cattegory. Double so if item stolen is start of the adventure. It's just preference thing. Long post was about core premise and game play loop. Item x gets stolen (from PC, from friendly NPC), PC snoop around to find out who took it and where, PCs go there, retrieve item or die trying. Same game play loop is for MacGuffin search quests. They find out about it, they snoop around to find where it is, they go there, retrieve it or die trying. Oh, and MacGuffin getting stolen from party when they rest in "safe" space is classic hurdle that get's thrown in for good measure. It's game play loop repeat essentially. I personally don't find anything wrong with OP's adventure framing. Hell, to me, that sounds like solid frame for start of adventure in new place. I would rather have DM paint big signposts "Adventure this way" and "this is quest" wow question marks on NPCs than just DM saying "Ok guys, here you are, what you do?" and then procede to waste half an hour of session figuring out what the hell we are going to do. Some people like that open player driven style more. Great for them. In the end, every DM knows his group best, knows their play style, knows how sensitive they are to losing player agency, what they don't like etc.</blockquote>

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