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Message: <blockquote data-quote="N'raac" data-source="post: 6114971" data-attributes="member: 6681948">[MENTION=22779]Hussar[/MENTION] has indicated, I believe, that he wants out of some aspect of the game, or the scenario, before he even sets foot in that scene because he knows before we even start that it will be mind-numbingly boring to him.  Is it reasonable to suggest the GM would take that as a positive, or even neutral, comment on his GMing, any more than a player will take the suggestion that his approach and attitude sounds selfish in a positive or neutral light, rather than getting defensive at being called “whiny”? Unless it’s a Dwarven city built into a mountainside, or an Elvish city in the trees, or some other fantasy city which lacks buildings.  That Dwarven mountain city might have one huge Gate which the besiegers cannot breach, so they have encamped to prevent Dwarves leaving, or supplies getting in.  Perhaps that Elven forest city is protected by powerful magicks which ward any hostile to the elves from entering so, again, the evil force has surrounded and blockaded the city.  [Those magicks might also preclude Teleportation – and no one knows what waits beyond the Great Gate, so you can’t Teleport past it either…] All of your assumptions sound reasonable, but none are guaranteed.  And how relevant or entertaining are your interactions with that fellow?  See above for possible cities lacking an inn. Seems likely.  I’m sure in a magical fantasy world, we can come up with imaginative situations where these assumptions are false.Or not.  The prospect of Slaad whose very motivations are utterly incomprehensible being the besiegers was mentioned way upthread.  I’ve provided some more mundane possibilities (not as a well written inclusion of a siege as a challenge or complication, but then the suggestion is that the desert is not a well written challenge or complication, and several examples of how it could be have been presented).</blockquote>

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