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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jackinthegreen" data-source="post: 6098593" data-attributes="member: 6678119">Perhaps I should have been more clear.  If the DM wants the players to even consider the desert as something more than an obstacle to be bypassed or crossed, he should make it interesting enough beforehand that it's likely the players will think of it as a goal unto itself.  Expecting significant encounters and story hooks like what Celebrim describes <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?334595-You-re-doing-what-Surprising-the-DM/page20&p=6097795&viewfull=1#post6097795" target="_blank">here</a> means that it's probably best for the situation to have a description of some (not all, since there does need to be some mystery after all!) of those before coming to the desert itself.  The original situation, however, seems to assume that no such things were known about at all.  Considering many people, even experienced RPG players, might not see a desert as rich with opportunity, having clear goals in the city but not at the desert makes the desert much less interesting and thus more likely for the players to resort to bypassing measures instead of exploratory or engaging measures.And sometimes certain measures can be interpreted wrong, so of course it's important to ask "Are you doing X to put a new spin on the situation, or are you doing it to bypass the situation?"  Such a question is probably necessary with the centipede so that the DM isn't surprised and reacts in a totally different way than the player(s) might have expected.</blockquote>

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