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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 8798501" data-attributes="member: 67338">This my be a bit of a side trek but in my experience as a player one of the golden missed parts of both homebrew and official lore is 'unreliable history'in one homebrew world I made I had 3 different stories about the woman that founded a dynasty of rich merchants. All three of the main suggested she was a Beauty with brains who took over her father's failing farm and turned it into a shipping empire, and all admitted that not only did she make this powerful trading company from nothing, but she also opened a string of bars and orphanages.  1) though was that she was born a mannish brute and made a deal for beauty with (insert 1 of the 3 PHB warlock patrons, cause I had 3 variants of this) 2) was that she was really a cross between a vampire and a succubus and wasn't the daughter but the lover who KILLED the farmer and took his land to build her power base including seducing many powerful people (financial, nobility and adventurer) to do things for her but she HAD to open up the orphanages because to keep her youth and beauty she needed to bath in the blood of children monthly. and 3) that she WAS a warlock patron(a fey), that the farmer sold his soul to and the barging was miss worded so even though his name and 'family' was going to be success he didn't live to see it.Some variants said she actually faked her death from time to time and 'inherated' the business' as a daughter or grand daughter.   For a few levels (and like 5 or 6 months real time a few years game time) I dropped hints over and over and got the party thinking she was the BBEG of the campaign... a lich/vampire/something.when I introduced a teenage scion of the family that was a 2nd level warlock and had features similar (but not exact) to her great great grandmothers description they KNEW for sure she was the BBEG... When they realized she was just a kid they were confused until one player put it all together- "Wait, she grew up on a farm, made some good choices got lucky and made a ton of money and people who didn't like that spread nasty rumors that made the history books... was she even a warlock?"and no, this was the first person in the family to become an adventuring class</blockquote>

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