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<blockquote data-quote="roguerouge" data-source="post: 3330908" data-attributes="member: 13855">Missing game elementsTaxes should shoot right to number one. This is the first campaign I've been in where a character was motivated by adventure simply to be able to pay the tax man.Professions. Everyone seems to become a lord, a guild member, or a mercenary. You can always pick out the party spy master by their ranks in profession. Nobody goes back to their job during their down time. Hobbies get under-utilized too. Think about how most people spend their free time and then about what your characters spend their time doing. I'm lucky to be in a campaign with a monk spending time learning chess and drawing and my ranger's learned orc dancing (a.k.a clogging.) He's got an entertainer's outfit too. Sex. Although in one game I made the dumb mistake of trying to impose a dice roll mechanic on the act itself. Never ever do that to a player.Simmering class resentment that the rich and powerful get to live forever with their cure diseases and their true resurrections, while the poor die in the gutter. I've yet to see a good high level cleric justify to a grieving widow of a farmer why his life wasn't worth one of the diamonds he has in his back pocket. (No. Not there!)Fashions and fads.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="roguerouge, post: 3330908, member: 13855"] [b]Missing game elements[/b] Taxes should shoot right to number one. This is the first campaign I've been in where a character was motivated by adventure simply to be able to pay the tax man. Professions. Everyone seems to become a lord, a guild member, or a mercenary. You can always pick out the party spy master by their ranks in profession. Nobody goes back to their job during their down time. Hobbies get under-utilized too. Think about how most people spend their free time and then about what your characters spend their time doing. I'm lucky to be in a campaign with a monk spending time learning chess and drawing and my ranger's learned orc dancing (a.k.a clogging.) He's got an entertainer's outfit too. Sex. Although in one game I made the dumb mistake of trying to impose a dice roll mechanic on the act itself. Never ever do that to a player. Simmering class resentment that the rich and powerful get to live forever with their cure diseases and their true resurrections, while the poor die in the gutter. I've yet to see a good high level cleric justify to a grieving widow of a farmer why his life wasn't worth one of the diamonds he has in his back pocket. (No. Not there!) Fashions and fads. [/QUOTE]

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