DM: “You exit the warehouse and make your way across the crowded market square. What measures do you take to avoid the suspicion of the guards?”
Paladin: “We walk like people who aren’t covered in blood.”
What did your group get up to last night?
I throw the goat at the kobold.
A real quote from a campaign we played, one of our first sessions.
Mad Mage campaign, last night’s goal: walk from Skullport through Undermountain’s caves to River Sargauth’s gondola “service”.
Enter Azrok’s Hold, show papers.
Security is high, a patrol intercepts them, show papers.
Exit the Hold, ask for directions to the River, show papers.
Get ambushed by Azrok’s bugbears, show papers.
There’s a hobgoblin squad ahead with clear signs of a recent skirmish with drows, show papers. Yes, the River is that way, be careful of the drows.
After a bend in the caverns, they have clear line of sight to the River and proceed. Drow ambush.