Im thinking I'll have the party be approached by a cabal of wizards from a port city. The Wizards create gaming products with their powers, but one of their items was accidentally put on the market too soon. Now the party is being hired to go shake down the customer and retrieve the product by any and all means.
Do you think my players will take the hook, or is it all just too cartoonishly evil?
I assume he's mocking WotC sending Pinkertons to retrieve an accidental delivery of not yet released MTG cards. Which seems to have been done in a hamhanded way, but really isn't all that notable.
When you write your encounter to be a parody of a contentious real life event, you're going to have some people love it and some people hate it depending on their take of the real life event. Might work if you know the people at your table are all anti-WotC, but otherwise it's a risk
When you write your encounter to be a parody of a contentious real life event, you're going to have some people love it and some people hate it depending on their take of the real life event. Might work if you know the people at your table are all anti-WotC, but otherwise it's a risk
Honestly if you leave it for a bit how will they know which time are you referring to? its not like this is the first time a corporation has sicked the Pinkertons on people. They have that reputation for a reason.
Honestly if you leave it for a bit how will they know which time are you referring to? its not like this is the first time a corporation has sicked the Pinkertons on people. They have that reputation for a reason.
I wouldn't really know and wouldn't really care, also wouldn't want to play a DnD adventure based on it. Sleazy corporations are going to be sleazy, not much I can do about that and I sure don't need reminders of it in my DnD sessions
In my professional opinion, whilst this plot hook is mocking of real life events, nothing necessarily wrong per say, but by some can be considered childish. But the concept for the plot isn't necessarily a bad plot hook, perhaps switching the nature of items around. The wizards are creating a new potion, the potion by some means has ended up in the hands of a local merchant before the wizards have finalized everything, and don't won't the potion getting out on upen markets to prevent competion from copying the ideas so the are hiring the player to go retrieve the potion through what ever means.
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Im thinking I'll have the party be approached by a cabal of wizards from a port city. The Wizards create gaming products with their powers, but one of their items was accidentally put on the market too soon. Now the party is being hired to go shake down the customer and retrieve the product by any and all means.
Do you think my players will take the hook, or is it all just too cartoonishly evil?
Look I am guessing that you are playing acquisitions Incorporated game and that game looks like it's meant to be silly it is a good silly idea
I assume he's mocking WotC sending Pinkertons to retrieve an accidental delivery of not yet released MTG cards. Which seems to have been done in a hamhanded way, but really isn't all that notable.
Mee too
When you write your encounter to be a parody of a contentious real life event, you're going to have some people love it and some people hate it depending on their take of the real life event. Might work if you know the people at your table are all anti-WotC, but otherwise it's a risk
Honestly if you leave it for a bit how will they know which time are you referring to? its not like this is the first time a corporation has sicked the Pinkertons on people. They have that reputation for a reason.
I wouldn't really know and wouldn't really care, also wouldn't want to play a DnD adventure based on it. Sleazy corporations are going to be sleazy, not much I can do about that and I sure don't need reminders of it in my DnD sessions
It depends how it's presented what exactly is the game and the overall tone of your campaign. Are you making a parallel with a real situation?
Google "WotC pinkertons", he's referring to this
I assume it is but wanted to ask Kronzypantz for confirmation.
In my professional opinion, whilst this plot hook is mocking of real life events, nothing necessarily wrong per say, but by some can be considered childish. But the concept for the plot isn't necessarily a bad plot hook, perhaps switching the nature of items around. The wizards are creating a new potion, the potion by some means has ended up in the hands of a local merchant before the wizards have finalized everything, and don't won't the potion getting out on upen markets to prevent competion from copying the ideas so the are hiring the player to go retrieve the potion through what ever means.