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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7379277" data-attributes="member: 29398">Or it's tangential, or is merely building up to something later.This early in the campaign, how much of this really matters?&nbsp; Maybe after this adventure, once the PCs start exploring more widely, answers to these questions may present themselves and-or become relevant; but in the here-and-now of the Keep and the Caves, who cares?Where to start?Fighters building keeps and clerics building temples are long-term goals that - in 1e - carry at least one specific mechanical requirement: that the PC be of at least a certain level.&nbsp; MUs needing components and thieves seeking riches are both kind of ongoing goals that don't really have a defined point at which the goal can be declared as achieved.&nbsp; Thieves starting guilds and MUs building their own labs are those classes' long term goals analagous to the fighter and her keep.And the Caves can directly help in achieving all of these.&nbsp; There's treasure in them thar caves, so the immediate goals of the thief (riches) and MU (components scavenged in the field and-or bought with said riches) are satisfied, while still remaining as onging goals as you can never have enough.&nbsp; And the Caves provide all four classes with a boost toward achievement of their name-level goals (the keep, etc.) by being a fine source of experience points which build (a bit) toward the level required by the stated goal.&nbsp; Why they each have their own particular goal is, for purposes of play, mostly irrelevant - particularly at such a low level when achievement of the goal is so far away the Hubble couldn't find it. <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=":)" />Lanefan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7379277, member: 29398"] Or it's tangential, or is merely building up to something later. This early in the campaign, how much of this really matters? Maybe after this adventure, once the PCs start exploring more widely, answers to these questions may present themselves and-or become relevant; but in the here-and-now of the Keep and the Caves, who cares? Where to start? Fighters building keeps and clerics building temples are long-term goals that - in 1e - carry at least one specific mechanical requirement: that the PC be of at least a certain level. MUs needing components and thieves seeking riches are both kind of ongoing goals that don't really have a defined point at which the goal can be declared as achieved. Thieves starting guilds and MUs building their own labs are those classes' long term goals analagous to the fighter and her keep. And the Caves can directly help in achieving all of these. There's treasure in them thar caves, so the immediate goals of the thief (riches) and MU (components scavenged in the field and-or bought with said riches) are satisfied, while still remaining as onging goals as you can never have enough. And the Caves provide all four classes with a boost toward achievement of their name-level goals (the keep, etc.) by being a fine source of experience points which build (a bit) toward the level required by the stated goal. Why they each have their own particular goal is, for purposes of play, mostly irrelevant - particularly at such a low level when achievement of the goal is so far away the Hubble couldn't find it. :) Lanefan [/QUOTE]

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