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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dragon Vindaloo" data-source="post: 3276965" data-attributes="member: 46821">A year or so ago, I tried to put my players through the adventure known as 'The Stink' from Dungeon mag.  Up until this adventure the party had only dealt with woodland skirmishes and travelling through orc infested hillsides.  This was to be their first grimy urban adventure and would lead to a bigger story in the campaign revolving around undead.  The party consisted of an avariel cleric, half orc ranger, gold elf ranger with jaguar companion and two human fighters in full plate.  All N or CG in alignment except the avariel who was NG.I converted the adventure to fit into Westgate (a more 'corrupted' city of the realms).Once the characters realised they had to go into a sewer they freaked! The N ranger left with his jaguar to wait in the woods outside the city with an npc as his arrows and bow wouldnt be much use and would be destroyed by the dirt, also the big cat didnt want to swim through sewage and wasnt suited to the environment.  The rest of the group carried on.  They entered the sewer...  once they were exposed to the dirt, smell and grime of the first encounter and started to understand they might get a disease they decided to leave the sewer (and adventure) because it was too dirty and disgusting, "I'm not wading waist deep through that!" etc. Only the half orc didnt mind all the filth and the avariel was NG so he wanted to do anything to help heal the city and stop the disease spreading dispite his discomfort but they were out-voted and couldnt go on without the others so the adventure was abandoned.  On the whole, nobody wanted to get dirty, wade through crap and damage their weapons, wings, clothes, equipment etc.It was a fairly new campaign so I wasnt aware of all the characters personality quirks etc otherwise I would have come up with another city adventure for them.Come to think of it, my own current wizard PC and his companions in our mid level game (played with an entirely different group of players) wouldnt do such a dirty adventure either, my wizard and his friends hate getting dirty and would consider going into a sewer gross and beneath them, our current group would just hire some npcs to do the job for us if possible...   Maybe its not that uncommon for character to want to stay clean and tidy?!</blockquote>

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