I had players that wanted to capture and interrogate every nameless mook they fought. They were convinced that even the random enemies were part of some elaborate plot and were trying to get more info on it.
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Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
They were good through BG: DiA until it was time to go to Avernus. There was a mix of "Uh, that's really not our job." and "Yeah, expletive those sanctimonious churchgoers." So they went back to Baldur's Gate and got more involved in the social-political upheavel of the various Devil cults lurking among the Patriars. So they basically ran a sort of Inquisition to the tune of an organized crime take over....
...I mean the Gazetteer for Baldur's Gate in the Appendix was loaded with hooks so I wasn't exactly left high and dry, but definitely wasn't the direction I prepped for when I read the book.
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Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
I was a player for this: My party spent about two hours in the Caves of Hunger in RotFM before deciding it was totally disconnected with the mission and completely bailed on that third of the adventure.
Auril was still alive, so we went back to finish what we started, and the DM turned the final confrontation into an epic battle to save Bryn Shander and a PC who had died early in the campaign. We learned what we skipped after the campaign ended, and it only made us happier that we went off-script, lol.
Was running Frozen Sick for my wife and her friends. They dragged an NPC, who was only meant to tell them where to go, into the wastes and left him for dead. They also kept the vials and their cure so they could try and weaponize it.
Not a published WOTC adventure, but a "module" bought from DTRPG. (a "one shot" that was part of a series). The module ends with players in possession of a red dragon egg. The write presumed two possible outcomes: sell the egg or destroy it. Subsequent modules in the series presumed the egg was handled in one of those two ways, and never mentioned/connected to the egg again.. But the party included a naively optimisti pacifist dragonborn wizard and a druid, neither of whom were interested in either of those two options. Instead, they wanted to raise it--or have someone raise it; the wizard's hope was it could be raised as a good aligned creature.
I did some research and found some references to crystal dragons sometimes raising chromatic hatchlings to be good. This was long before gem dragons were a thing officially in 5e, so I decided a silver dragon might be convinced to do so. It forced me to delve into homebrew campaigns/adventures, which was a good thing.
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After telling my players that I'd finally managed to finish all the prep for Storm King's Thunder, they went and joined the enemy faction.
I had players that wanted to capture and interrogate every nameless mook they fought. They were convinced that even the random enemies were part of some elaborate plot and were trying to get more info on it.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
They were good through BG: DiA until it was time to go to Avernus. There was a mix of "Uh, that's really not our job." and "Yeah, expletive those sanctimonious churchgoers." So they went back to Baldur's Gate and got more involved in the social-political upheavel of the various Devil cults lurking among the Patriars. So they basically ran a sort of Inquisition to the tune of an organized crime take over....
...I mean the Gazetteer for Baldur's Gate in the Appendix was loaded with hooks so I wasn't exactly left high and dry, but definitely wasn't the direction I prepped for when I read the book.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
I was a player for this: My party spent about two hours in the Caves of Hunger in RotFM before deciding it was totally disconnected with the mission and completely bailed on that third of the adventure.
Auril was still alive, so we went back to finish what we started, and the DM turned the final confrontation into an epic battle to save Bryn Shander and a PC who had died early in the campaign. We learned what we skipped after the campaign ended, and it only made us happier that we went off-script, lol.
Derailed a "canned" adventure? Every. Single. Time.
Was running Frozen Sick for my wife and her friends. They dragged an NPC, who was only meant to tell them where to go, into the wastes and left him for dead. They also kept the vials and their cure so they could try and weaponize it.
Not a published WOTC adventure, but a "module" bought from DTRPG. (a "one shot" that was part of a series). The module ends with players in possession of a red dragon egg. The write presumed two possible outcomes: sell the egg or destroy it. Subsequent modules in the series presumed the egg was handled in one of those two ways, and never mentioned/connected to the egg again.. But the party included a naively optimisti pacifist dragonborn wizard and a druid, neither of whom were interested in either of those two options. Instead, they wanted to raise it--or have someone raise it; the wizard's hope was it could be raised as a good aligned creature.
I did some research and found some references to crystal dragons sometimes raising chromatic hatchlings to be good. This was long before gem dragons were a thing officially in 5e, so I decided a silver dragon might be convinced to do so. It forced me to delve into homebrew campaigns/adventures, which was a good thing.
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That is why I haven't used a pre-written adventure since AD&D. (1e for you younger folk)