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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jon_Dahl" data-source="post: 5886973" data-attributes="member: 89822">I always try to move all the events forward in a steady and quick pace. I observe how much we were able to do interesting things and fight battles during a session. I've noticed that it's generally a good idea not to explain things "too much", because that delays the session. So the PCs made no effort to ask and thus I made no effort to explain.The sphinx had travelled from the Plains of the Paynims (Bedouin/Tuareg & Sahara-setting) to the West to learn more about their ways. He spent his time mostly with Sherpas (moderate, spiritual people, zero greediness etc.). He had accumulated considerable wealth over the decades mostly by defeating greedy creatures who had attacked him.Cool weather gave him lung problems so it wanted to travel back home. Once there, the Sphinx thought about trying to make an alliance with some Bedouin tribe by giving them gifts, but he was thinking that a bunch of magical swords would perhaps work better than a shield. It wasn't a simple decision, but from his experience the Bedouins were hardly friends of heavy metal objects such as shields. Bedouins were weak "creatures" of course, but generally he enjoyed the presence of humans (to a certain extent).Since the players didn't want to trade and the Sherpas couldn't help him in anyway and his lungs were killing him, he took his shield and other stuff and left back to the desert. Not the best situation but nothing critical really.</blockquote>

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