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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6977823" data-attributes="member: 12731"><p>I'm thinking of a campaign where most people scrape by without hope... <em>always hungry. But once in a while, if only a very long while, a band of battered heroes return from the wilderness with untold riches, or if not untold, at least worth several hundred gold - having taken the first step on the path of becoming powerful, experienced, famous... the dream of getting to leave the drudgery behind.</em></p><p></p><p>Then combine this with that thread over at rpg.net (that I can't seem to find right now, regrettably) where band after band of newly grouped wetbacks walk bigeyed <em>down the kobold warrens, into the ettercap forest or seek out troll country.... only to never come back.</em></p><p>(I think that thread had a dozen bands perish and scores of replacements died, until at last everyone levelled up enough to stop dying all the time, and then the thread chronicled those random survivors rise to greatness)</p><p></p><p></p><p><em>At least they died doing something. At least they got a quick death. At least they didn't get to grow old and useless and rot away with the pig farming or mud hoveling or whatever us peasants do. They died while they still could look themselves in the mirror without pity or contempt. They died with straight backs and smiles on their faces.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The fact that they probably died screaming and crying for mommy, pissing their pants isn't really important. Nobody will ever remember those who were slowly boiled alive in the hag's cauldron, or were paralyzed with carrion crawler poison and drowned in their own vomit. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>What is important is that once more a band of young naive bumbling fools have decided to leave their home villages and seek out glory. And gold. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Probably only death. But think of the gold!</em></p><p></p><p>Welcome to the short nasty brutish lives of a xp for gold campaign...! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 6977823, member: 12731"] I'm thinking of a campaign where most people scrape by without hope... [I]always hungry. But once in a while, if only a very long while, a band of battered heroes return from the wilderness with untold riches, or if not untold, at least worth several hundred gold - having taken the first step on the path of becoming powerful, experienced, famous... the dream of getting to leave the drudgery behind.[/I] Then combine this with that thread over at rpg.net (that I can't seem to find right now, regrettably) where band after band of newly grouped wetbacks walk bigeyed [I]down the kobold warrens, into the ettercap forest or seek out troll country.... only to never come back.[/I] (I think that thread had a dozen bands perish and scores of replacements died, until at last everyone levelled up enough to stop dying all the time, and then the thread chronicled those random survivors rise to greatness) [I]At least they died doing something. At least they got a quick death. At least they didn't get to grow old and useless and rot away with the pig farming or mud hoveling or whatever us peasants do. They died while they still could look themselves in the mirror without pity or contempt. They died with straight backs and smiles on their faces. The fact that they probably died screaming and crying for mommy, pissing their pants isn't really important. Nobody will ever remember those who were slowly boiled alive in the hag's cauldron, or were paralyzed with carrion crawler poison and drowned in their own vomit. What is important is that once more a band of young naive bumbling fools have decided to leave their home villages and seek out glory. And gold. Probably only death. But think of the gold![/I] Welcome to the short nasty brutish lives of a xp for gold campaign...! :cool: [/QUOTE]
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