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<blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 6953668" data-attributes="member: 6750306"><p>One classic staple of the "genre" is having the main characters blackmailed into doing something because somebody has something on them that can destroy them - maybe they pissed off the wrong people, or didn't pay their protection money or something, and now they owe somebody big a favor for not destroying them. This provides a quest-giver and possible source of information/gear (which, of course, comes at a price, i.e., selling more bits of their soul to the devil and getting themselves deeper into his/her/their debt).</p><p>And it also establishes a long-term campaign goal of getting out from under that entity's thumb by any of several different means - simply outright killing them, taking them down by direct destruction of their various schemes, betrayal to other enemies, or setting them up to take the fall for some major act of treason or social faux pas, maybe even the things the party has been forced to do in their name...</p><p>The tv show <em>Leverage</em> as well as some of the better heist movies and other criminals vs. criminals movies/shows can provide a great deal of plot fodder, even from episodes/films where that sort of thing wasn't the main focus of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mad_Jack, post: 6953668, member: 6750306"] One classic staple of the "genre" is having the main characters blackmailed into doing something because somebody has something on them that can destroy them - maybe they pissed off the wrong people, or didn't pay their protection money or something, and now they owe somebody big a favor for not destroying them. This provides a quest-giver and possible source of information/gear (which, of course, comes at a price, i.e., selling more bits of their soul to the devil and getting themselves deeper into his/her/their debt). And it also establishes a long-term campaign goal of getting out from under that entity's thumb by any of several different means - simply outright killing them, taking them down by direct destruction of their various schemes, betrayal to other enemies, or setting them up to take the fall for some major act of treason or social faux pas, maybe even the things the party has been forced to do in their name... The tv show [i]Leverage[/i] as well as some of the better heist movies and other criminals vs. criminals movies/shows can provide a great deal of plot fodder, even from episodes/films where that sort of thing wasn't the main focus of it. [/QUOTE]
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