I'm running my players through Burnt Offerings and they just completed
and are now looking at tracks. One of the players roped off a footprint and ran off to the general store to get some plaster to cast it and wants to start comparing it to major NPC's they have met so far.
As a GM do you applaud or laugh at this type of thought process?
Applaud. But then my very first encounter in AD&D in the late 70s had me successfully convince an Ettin that good-aligned people were less nutritious and thus that it should ally with the party (who were all good-aligned) and head back to this dungeon a duke had full of evil-aligned critters for it to eat! (The party had sent me out to hamstring the ettin all by myself and my character (a lantern bearer) was caught. The GM had mercy but was also amused by my argument.)
So I've a sentimental streak toward sneaky and smart players. :)
Haha, that's great.
My group definitely is smart and sneaky, can't wait to see what's next!
Just remind them this isn't CSI and they don't have the type of modern tools of today and they'll stop trying to get blood samples and all that. Zone of Truth comes in handy though...
Not necessarily. With a wizard, carrying around a few blood samples is rarely a bad thing.
We came really close to dusting for fingerprints at the sawmill, but decided it would be too tedious without a computer to run the comparisons.
Your players are going to love The Skinsaw Murders
I am actually going to award bonus XP for any suitable one-liners when (if!) the PCs reach that point...
Give that player some sort of reward. Seriously. That sort of thing should be encouraged!
And, one thing I might recommend if this is going to continue is for you to read the Brother Cadfael mysteries. The books Monk's Hood and Virgin In The Ice deal with what can and cannot be done with medieval detective work.
Psh.
If you think this is bad, feel sorry for my mate, who is running a Judge Dread game come Easter...
And my character is...
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... Judge Caine.
YEEEEAAAAH!
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