overgeeked
B/X Known World
Right. Eshteross is plausible to not be helpful. He simply doesn’t have the connections. Sorry. Makes sense. It’s plausible that there’s no 9th-level clerics in Jrusar. Less plausible than Estheross not having the right connections, but within the realm of making sense.Agree but they are working for a high level character who also offered to help
But then you have a PC with a direct connection to a 20th-level druid (Keyleth) and indirect connections to a 20th-level cleric (Pike), and any other clerics they might know. It doesn’t make sense that in that connection there’s no help. That creates a tension for the story and the players.
It comes down to giving the PCs the connections then not letting them use those connections in reasonable ways. If you’re not going to let them use the connection, don’t let them have it in the first place. But having that connection takes the teeth out of a lot of things.