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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5002807" data-attributes="member: 8835">if you go with direct brute force consequences, the PC should be in jail and suffer the legal consequences for his actions (likely execution).  I don't want to raise the hacles of the train-spotting crowd, but this can derail a campaign if you've got something big planned.  Or it can clear the tracks by getting rid of a PC who is too stupid to be on your major epic quest.The alternative, which can do less damage to an overarching plot, is to have the offended parties seek retribution stealthily.The woman might still love the smuggler, and hates the PC for trying to use what he did as leverage.  But because she doesn't want to be associated with any wrong-doing, she strikes back in a different vector (or the smuggler does, because what she wants, he delivers).In a battlefield, perhaps nobody noticed what happened exactly.  At least nobody who reported it to authorities.  Which means the PC thinks what happened was no big deal.  However, he has made somebody angry, and that person will strike back.By doing it this way, you continue the main story (whatever it was), and the consequences are more subtle.Though the trial idea is also cool.  If your campaign is pretty free-flowing, then you could easily focus on his actions and making it a pretty big deal.  If you've got this witchcraft war thing going on, making this a headline news article will change the focus of the game.Honestly, if you go big public consequence on the PC, you're going to take the PC out of commision because that is the most likely outcome.I read somebody's blog on here about running a game for "psychopath" PCs that had some pretty good points about letting them get away with stuf.  The core point was to have situations where the PC could obviously be evil and get away with it, and situations where the PC had to be smart and behave.  A core point is, if you get all Perry Mason on him, he's going to jail, end of game.</blockquote>

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