New Posts For Thread: Making Town Visits Engaginghttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/28936303/Making_Town_Visits_EngagingIn D&D, we have multiple sets, each with a gameplay pattern to it.Dungeon: wherein parties wind around in hollow spaces, retrieve treasure, and survive the trip back.Wilderness: wherein parties map the area, finding fun places, even dungeons.Settleme..oh snaps, do you know what I forgot - NPC mannerisms.. ..I has an NPC "planar guide" to the PC's and he was always late getting to the door, and would nod his head and always say.. .."hrmm hrmm" even if they PC's were saying the most mundane of dethttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/28936303/Making_Town_Visits_Engaging?post_id=516710753#516710753..oh snaps, do you know what I forgot - NPC mannerisms.. ..I has an NPC "planar guide" to the PC's and he was always late getting to the door, and would nod his head and always say.. .."hrmm hrmm" even if they PC's were saying the most mundane of detWed, 22 Feb 2012 20:38:30 -0600Every NPC I create I try to make a 3 to 5 bullet history or story. If I am careful enough I can create a social network of connection relationships. I've had players get mixed up in the politics of competing merchants, get into bidding wars, become ahttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/28936303/Making_Town_Visits_Engaging?post_id=516708987#516708987Every NPC I create I try to make a 3 to 5 bullet history or story. If I am careful enough I can create a social network of connection relationships. I've had players get mixed up in the politics of competing merchants, get into bidding wars, become aWed, 22 Feb 2012 19:38:39 -0600I find a fun thing to do is to offer players some chances to feel upper class. Offer the players trips to the opera, expensive gear that doesn't give any bonus other than be extremely high quality (well, THIS set of thieves' tools are carved from thehttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/28936303/Making_Town_Visits_Engaging?post_id=516707495#516707495I find a fun thing to do is to offer players some chances to feel upper class. Offer the players trips to the opera, expensive gear that doesn't give any bonus other than be extremely high quality (well, THIS set of thieves' tools are carved from theWed, 22 Feb 2012 18:47:06 -0600..look around our world for other countries' holidays nobody knows about and then add them or part of them into your cities - I think breaking the monotony of the city trek could make it interesting.. (perhaps the Ritual of Steel festival has all thehttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/28936303/Making_Town_Visits_Engaging?post_id=516700681#516700681..look around our world for other countries' holidays nobody knows about and then add them or part of them into your cities - I think breaking the monotony of the city trek could make it interesting.. (perhaps the Ritual of Steel festival has all theWed, 22 Feb 2012 15:56:32 -0600Every time the party I'm a player in reaches the town, we're exstatic. We -love- our gold! We had some problems with party members stealing/hiding stuff from party members before, so we have an adventuring "contract" that my character made so we'd sthttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/28936303/Making_Town_Visits_Engaging?post_id=516694247#516694247Every time the party I'm a player in reaches the town, we're exstatic. We -love- our gold! We had some problems with party members stealing/hiding stuff from party members before, so we have an adventuring "contract" that my character made so we'd stWed, 22 Feb 2012 13:33:05 -0600