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A method I use for getting the players a "sense of being there" is to write short stories about the different factions and place settings in the world(ala the books in the Elder Scrolls games.)I then post these in a shared facebook group. I never include things that wouldn't be common knowledge. Then the players show up the next week saying "that abandoned tower the tavern bard sung about last night sounds interesting, lets go check that out..." It reallys makes them react differently to things that would be non events otherwise. Example "Whoa, there's a merchant train comming up the road, I thought it was plagued with bandits down south, how did that happen?" Doing this adds so many 'hooks' that can be intertwined later in a very convincing narrative.

This also helps as a DM, because you get to build an open world that your PC's have knowledge of, but still allows you to focus on running the game when players are there.

I've found varieties of wrapping paper that have perfect 1" squares on the back. I literally unroll it as the players move through environments and draw out territory as they see it. Economical and really adds gameplay value imho.'

NECRO!

thistledown wrote:

Why would you need to hand it off? The Unseen Servent is shapeless. Just keep holding the crossbow and working the trigger. The US just handles your ammo and turns the crank.

I suppose that's true. Unseen Servants aren't really creatures and can't even be directly attacked. I'm not even sure it occupies a square. I see no reason it can't reload a crossbow you are holding.

I would think that to make this work you would need QTY-2 crossbows. I.E. Shoot one whilst the other is being reloaded. The servant wont reload it any FASTER than the PC; But it CAN do while the PC is doing something else... my 2 cu....