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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JamesonCourage" data-source="post: 6118155" data-attributes="member: 6668292">Why at the city? Why not at the temple gates? Why not outside the high priest's room? Why not in his presence? For that matter, why not in the desert?This is something that's been evading me. And it's why I expanded on the "is it just wording" question. It's not about exploring the desert.Why do you think Hussar wants to deal with the city? From his statements, it looks like he wants to deal with his goal in the temple.Which Hussar explicitly doesn't care about. See my last post for Hussar's thought on that.No, at the temple. They're as much committed to doing something "in the city" as they are "in the desert." In Hussar's case, both seem to be "setting", and something he has no interest in.Okay, so, when did Hussar express his want to interact with the city? When asked where you draw the line on where to put stuff, you said "The answer lies in the players' evinced preferences." But, you continued with "If the players have made it clear they want to get to the city", and I have to interrupt; when did Hussar make it evident he wants to interact with the city? Sure, he wants to go there, but he knows he has to cross the desert, too. He wants to get to the city to interact with whatever is inside the temple. What makes you think he sees the city as relevant when he voices that he wants to go there?This makes me curious about what your thoughts are on my expansion of the "wording" question. Does how a player word things determine what you throw in their way?This is true. But, to Hussar, it's "setting wank." It'll be relevant when he gets to it, or when it's "plot". Which, of course, the siege seems to be fine, but the refugees aren't. But I'm still not sure why.It's not prep so much as play style. Hussar's views seem contradictory to me. And that'd make it harder to run a game (regardless of style of prep) for a player like him.Same for the desert encounter, etc.This is only true if you tie the siege directly to the PC's goals, which you could do for the desert encounter. As always, play what you like <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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