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Searched the boards but to no avail. How do your parties store all of their coin and loot. I seem to remember something about a small vault under Deverin's office but nothing that could handle the level of wealth they'll eventually be encountering. Do they need t keep their valuables in Magnimar for safe keeping?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts!

Hi all, if this is not in the proper location, please feel free to move.

As a new GM, I'd like to have my players deal with the transportation of coin and loot realistically. So if they score a total of 5,000 sp, 500 gp, and lot of other loot and they have no magical means of transporting large portions of it (bag of holding, etc.) and are far from town, for example, how do you have your players deal with the issue?

I don't want them to get bored having to rent a cart and walk it 20 miles, etc. every time they come across a lot of loot, but I'd prefer not to hand waive the issue as the opportunity is there to move story along. The party is seen carting a cache of weapons one week, a cart full of chests the next, etc. This raises eyebrows, gets people talking, and opens up opportunities within the game.

TLDR: how do you make dealing with the transportation of loot realistic but fun?

Thanks so much for any help!

Hi All,

First post. I'm a 44 year old new GM who used to play AD&D as a kid. I've rounded up two friends, also in their late 30's-early 40's, who used to play as well and we've just begun ROTRL. We're looking for one more player to join us. They're in Burnt offerings, right in the middle of the first goblin attack.

I'd set up a ton of the Swallowtail games found on these boards for our last session but there seemed to be little interest in them and after just two I moved on.

In the midst of combat, I'm trying to be as descriptive as possible. . . "Your greatsword tears through the goblin's chest, leaking gore and ruptured organs onto the hard-packed earth. He stares at you helplessly and then drops to the ground in a heap," kind of thing. . . but even combat seems somehow lackluster. I've created background battle music specifically for different fights on ambient-mixer.com and play those or rousing music during the fights. Or I've got tavern, market, ambient sounds, etc. depending on where they are in the town or AP. These they seem to enjoy or at least appreciate the effort on my part to help them have fun.

Are we too old and jaded? Have the video games and MMO's of their past ruined their capacity to enjoy an RPG? I've tried to set up relationships to Sandpoint as quickly as possible (one PC comes to the Swallowtail Festival every year so knows a lot of NPC's, etc.) but somehow they just don't seem to be having a great time.

For whatever it's worth, I work as a professional actor so storytelling is something I enjoy and invest in quite easily.

I know there are a ton of "New GM Requesting Help" threads on the boards but I thought I'd throw out one more with my specific issue.

TLDR: my players seem bored thus far and we've only just begun. Help!

Thanks so much in advance for reading this wall of text and for any thoughts you can send my way!

All the Best,

Oha