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<blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 2736484" data-attributes="member: 4910">Try to find out why the Elder doesn't trust us and see if there's anything we can do to convince him we're okay folks who would just like to make a few purchases and move on. Failing that, as the scenario seems to be engineered around, there're a couple options:- Find out if the reason they won't sell to you is because they need the stuff themselves (hard times suck for everyone, after all).&nbsp; If that's the case, help the town out in what basic way you can spare, tighten your belts, and move on without taking anything.&nbsp; Maybe they'll be a little more trusting of the next group that comes along.- If they're being immovable simply because they feel like being contrary (e.g. the 'we don't like yer kind around here, boy' scenario), and can spare the supplies but just won't, possibly have the party sneaky types lift the items needed and leave appropriate renumeration in their place, or try to nail Mr. Village Elder with a charm spell on the sly and see if that doesn't change his outlook a little bit.So essentially, use the minimum effort rather than the minimum force.&nbsp; We're adventurers.&nbsp; We spend weeks out in the field going through ruins, hunting down exotic prey, looking for missing princesses and saving the world.&nbsp; We're pretty self sufficient as a point of course.&nbsp; Chances are whatever it is that some hayseed village has are more of a convienance than they are a necessity.And you don't go razing places to the ground out of convienance.&nbsp; Even if the populace is&nbsp; being a bunch of standoffish jerks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sejs, post: 2736484, member: 4910"] Try to find out why the Elder doesn't trust us and see if there's anything we can do to convince him we're okay folks who would just like to make a few purchases and move on. Failing that, as the scenario seems to be engineered around, there're a couple options: - Find out if the reason they won't sell to you is because they need the stuff themselves (hard times suck for everyone, after all). If that's the case, help the town out in what basic way you can spare, tighten your belts, and move on without taking anything. Maybe they'll be a little more trusting of the next group that comes along. - If they're being immovable simply because they feel like being contrary (e.g. the 'we don't like yer kind around here, boy' scenario), and can spare the supplies but just won't, possibly have the party sneaky types lift the items needed and leave appropriate renumeration in their place, [i]or[/i] try to nail Mr. Village Elder with a charm spell on the sly and see if that doesn't change his outlook a little bit. So essentially, use the minimum [i]effort[/i] rather than the minimum [i]force[/i]. We're adventurers. We spend weeks out in the field going through ruins, hunting down exotic prey, looking for missing princesses and saving the world. We're pretty self sufficient as a point of course. Chances are whatever it is that some hayseed village has are more of a convienance than they are a necessity. And you don't go razing places to the ground out of convienance. Even if the populace is being a bunch of standoffish jerks. [/QUOTE]

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