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Pulpatoon wrote:Hoodie explicitly said that the diamonds were fakes. The idea, presumably, is to not hand over a bunch of real diamonds to the evil egg sellers.

Honestly, I can't tell if I'm supposed to be IC suspicious of this guy because his plan doesn't make any sense, or if I'm supposed to OOC conclude that this is WotC railroading us, and we should be good sports and play along for the sake of getting the adventure started.

Pulpatoon wrote:Honestly, I can't tell if I'm supposed to be IC suspicious of this guy because his plan doesn't make any sense, or if I'm supposed to OOC conclude that this is WotC railroading us, and we should be good sports and play along for the sake of getting the adventure started.

Computer +1 wrote:Well said.

Pulpatoon wrote:Sorry, Dave. I don't mean to be dumping on something you're putting a lot of work into—and I am genuinely excited about this campaign. My previous message came off as rude, and I should have found a better way to express my thoughts.

You warned us that the adventure-as-written could be rail-roady, and it is a little hard to figure out how to position ourselves relative to that. I genuinely don't know how suspicious I'm supposed to be of this guy. My own inclinations would be to not go along with his plan, but I don't want to spoil the game if the assumption is that we do.

Pulpatoon wrote:I guess this is the heart of the question: Would it have messed up your prep up if we had blown this guy off? How off-the-rails do you want this campaign to get?

GreyWolfVT wrote:I'm for going through with it but i have a feeling the seller of the egg will likely notice the fakes if they are so easily spotted most merchants don't just accept payment without checking it or at least seeing it. Either way likely we will find some sort of battle which is fine by me and Grimbul would be entirely up for it, so long as he doesn't end up in jail.

GreyWolfVT wrote:"...but I have me doubts that these will pass any inspection by the merchant, I aint never met one that didn't at least give the payment a check to ensure it was authentic.

dmw71 wrote:"The merchant had a sack of diamonds which he was going to use for the purchase. We've kept those, but here --" he says, handing Grimbul a sack filled with what appear to be diamonds. "Tell me if those won't pass as real?" While they're near worthless in actual value, they will almost certainly pass for the real thing.

Computer +1 wrote:Hey Dave, same for me as above, I am sorry if my echoing came off as rude.
I dont like the feeling of being rushed into things but I have faith in you and the story you have planned. Again, sorry if it came out wrong.

Definitely no worries.

I still find starting a game, and developing the pacing and rhythm for a new group of players, to be challenging. Now that the game is actually in progress, I'm sure we'll quickly fall into a routine and things will flow more naturally.

My biggest mistake was not thinking through the time aspect of this side adventure I presented first. With everyone sitting at a table in an organized game, knowing they have a single hour to complete something -- it's easier to make forced situations like that to "work." I'm sure, if I had completely skipped the stranger pitching the idea, the story wouldn't have gotten off to such a rocky start.

We'll recover.

GreyWolfVT wrote:To clarify by saying merchant i am talking the one selling us the egg not the dude that gave us the fake diamonds.

Scott308 wrote:It's gonna be really funny when we get to the meeting and discover the group with the egg includes a Tabaxi barbarian, a druid, an elf fighter...

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