As I've mentioned, I have not played all that much Dungeons and Dragons. Nor have most of my players, except for the two behind Elephant Joe and Niv, they both used to play a lot of 3.5. Niv's player knows mountains of lore and tried to run a couple of campaigns in 2018, both of which ended pretty quickly after his players started killing each other. My characters are more than just a little bit responsible for those, but we're fine now. Elephant Joe enjoys reading modules and needs to be reminded frequently that he does not get to see this module until we finish playing through it.
Both of them have looked things up, and know things they should not know. Elephant Joe and I live together, and so we talk about my plans for after the party leaves Waterdeep, and the weird and exciting monsters I have found to hide in the wilds. Niv however, has looked up fountains of lore on the city and all the notable magic items and personages it contains. I get a lot of interesting lessons on the history of the Blackstaff during our sessions.
Part of how we are dealing with this is through their characters and roleplay. Elephant Joe is not very bright, and so he can't really tell the party any secrets and be believed. I also use him as a point to introduce new optional sidequests that I want to send the party on. Oskar was replaced by Niv partly because Oskar being so knowledgeable about this city he had never been to before made no sense, partly because the player loves making new characters, partly because he thinks that there will be a new version of the Artificer class coming out that he can upgrade to, and finally because Oskar didn't have a whole lot of story stuff to work with.
Both of them have looked things up, and know things they should not know. Elephant Joe and I live together, and so we talk about my plans for after the party leaves Waterdeep, and the weird and exciting monsters I have found to hide in the wilds. Niv however, has looked up fountains of lore on the city and all the notable magic items and personages it contains. I get a lot of interesting lessons on the history of the Blackstaff during our sessions.
Part of how we are dealing with this is through their characters and roleplay. Elephant Joe is not very bright, and so he can't really tell the party any secrets and be believed. I also use him as a point to introduce new optional sidequests that I want to send the party on. Oskar was replaced by Niv partly because Oskar being so knowledgeable about this city he had never been to before made no sense, partly because the player loves making new characters, partly because he thinks that there will be a new version of the Artificer class coming out that he can upgrade to, and finally because Oskar didn't have a whole lot of story stuff to work with.
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