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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 5971252" data-attributes="member: 386">I think we're in agreement, but I wanted to expand on this a little more:I agree.  One of the things I find interesting about D&D is that these situations crop up - where you get yourself into trouble.  I enjoy it when it's my own poor choices that lead to these situations: "Crap, I spent too much time building my stupid little fort.  Now the bandits have gathered allies by promising them a share of my loot, and my fort's not strong enough to protect me."[sblock=Effect and cause]In my 3E game: Mulhorand is after me because...< we killed a lot of important NPCs because...< we burned down the Mulhorandi fleet because...< we were greedy and over-confident because...< we didn't do a very good job gathering intel because...< we were over-confident and wanted to get our mission to gather intel on the fleet for the Thayans over with as quickly as possible because...< the Thayans made us an offer we couldn't refuse because...< we ended up on a Thay-controlled island by mistake because...< Plane Shift is only accurate to 5 - 500 miles and we had to cast it because...< we were in Sigil selling our loot without drawing attention from the drow because...< we tried to kill a drow princess but she got away with a Word of Recall because...< Plane Shift is only accurate to 5 - 500 miles and we had to cast it because...< we had to Plane Shift to Sigil to get a high-level Cleric to cast Restoration because...< we triggered an Enervation trap because...< we weren't very careful when looking for traps.(I'm leaving out the part about the Geas-ed adult red dragon, the ancient green dragon vampire, and the pride and belligerence that led to it all.)[/sblock]</blockquote>

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