kopper@psuvax.UUCP (09/23/83)
References: <213@ecn-ed.UUCP> I have a different problem, but this one requires the DM to provide the answer and the player to present the problem. The goal for the player is to see if a character (first level thief - chaotic hopefully) can steal an entire town from the DM. If your still curious read on.... The basic idea is to use two characters: one to be introduced well before the second character. The first characters goal is to go adventuring and stuff but also to learn about the town he/she is in. After he/she knows a good bit about the town he/she starts telling stories. These stories can be fictional/real or whatever. Amoung the stories your character tells he/she has a favoriate story of the anchient history of the town he/she is in. This story is about the time before the current goverment got into ruling, and it includes about how fantastic the town was up until some war/raid on the town by some other group (maybe even the ruling goverment!). During the raid it is described as most of the ruling family was killed but one (or more(!)) of the heirs to the throne of the town got away. Notice:include a discription of some type of a family symbol or crest or something and have this symbol lost after the raid/war/? . About a month (real time) of having your character tell stories on his/her off time, Introduce a new character into the campaign. This new character is your first level thief!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Have this new character walk into town and ask then have him declair that he is of the royal line of the town from before it was over-run. Also, this character should have with him/her a replica of the lost family seal/crest or whatever. At this point many different things could happen to your second character. You may be promoted to king (I wonder how much experiance(sp?) you get for stealing a whole town?), you could be killed as an imposter (he/she was only a first level thief - no real lost), the people may accept you/reject you, the goverment may accept you/reject you, the military may accept you/reject you... By allowing so many possibilities, this stragity may just stop the game for the night... In any event, the DM has a problem with no easy solution. If you were my DM and I tried the above on you, What would you do ? Please respond by mail if you have an answer. David Kopper ...psuvax!kopper PS:Have a good game for me!