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<blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 9079503" data-attributes="member: 467">Maybe the reason that the boar did the thing is that the unquiet spirit of the old Barrow King needs help and wanted to draw &quot;heroes&quot; to him to beg for aid.Someone looted his tomb and in order to rest he needs his gold torque back. The PCs -- assuming they take the hook -- follow tracks from the tomb to a goblin camp who they assume are responsible. But the goblins sue for mercy instead of fight to the death and the PCs find out that the goblins are being bullied by evil human followers of the Dark Lord who think they still get to push goblins around.The goblins did steal the torque, but under duress. They can tell the PCs where the evil humans -- who are now just bandits, effectively-- are camped. PCs go fight them, get the torque and more importantly get to free some goblins thralls.You can play with responsibility and morality if you want. If the spectre king wants revenge against the thieves you could say that regardless of their circumstances,&nbsp; the goblins were technically the thieves. That might muddy te moral waters in an interesting way.Obviously I made a metric ton of assumptions in all that, so take it how you will.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Reynard, post: 9079503, member: 467"] Maybe the reason that the boar did the thing is that the unquiet spirit of the old Barrow King needs help and wanted to draw "heroes" to him to beg for aid. Someone looted his tomb and in order to rest he needs his gold torque back. The PCs -- assuming they take the hook -- follow tracks from the tomb to a goblin camp who they assume are responsible. But the goblins sue for mercy instead of fight to the death and the PCs find out that the goblins are being bullied by evil human followers of the Dark Lord who think they still get to push goblins around. The goblins did steal the torque, but under duress. They can tell the PCs where the evil humans -- who are now just bandits, effectively-- are camped. PCs go fight them, get the torque and more importantly get to free some goblins thralls. You can play with responsibility and morality if you want. If the spectre king wants revenge against the thieves you could say that regardless of their circumstances, the goblins were technically the thieves. That might muddy te moral waters in an interesting way. Obviously I made a metric ton of assumptions in all that, so take it how you will. [/QUOTE]

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