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<blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 5596300" data-attributes="member: 31216">Reading some of the replies, and remembering back to an adventure I was playing a PC in, an idea just came to me.In one adventure I was a PC in, the local lord put out a call for adventurers. Our party of 3rd-level PCs showed up as one of three groups applying for the job. One group was obviously higher level than us, and the other group was obviously 1st level. The representative for the lord picked our group.The money/reward was set regardless of which group was picked for the job, so skipping the better team for us was supposed to be a clue. But we didn't get it; we just assumed we were picked because we were the PCs.The DM explained the plot to me a while after the adventure/campaign failed to take hold. The lord was bowing to pressure from the local guilds to &quot;do something&quot; about the bandits on the road. But the lord was actually in league with the bandits, and so didn't want to really send a team who could actually wipe them out. So he picked our team. Picking the obvious novices would have tipped his hand that he wasn't really trying to kill the bandits.So, anyway, this brought this idea to mind:Maybe the folks hiring the PCs in the OP situation refuse to give too much, (enough or any), help because they aren't really interested in rescuing/recovering the person/stuff. Let the PCs' frustration be a clue for them. Maybe it was an inside job, and that's why someone is hiring outside help -- someone who they think will make a big deal looking like their trying to solve the issue, but who can't really because they don't have the ability/power/resources.But this probably will only work with a group who don't think metagame too much.Bullgrit</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bullgrit, post: 5596300, member: 31216"] Reading some of the replies, and remembering back to an adventure I was playing a PC in, an idea just came to me. In one adventure I was a PC in, the local lord put out a call for adventurers. Our party of 3rd-level PCs showed up as one of three groups applying for the job. One group was obviously higher level than us, and the other group was obviously 1st level. The representative for the lord picked our group. The money/reward was set regardless of which group was picked for the job, so skipping the better team for us was supposed to be a clue. But we didn't get it; we just assumed we were picked because we were the PCs. The DM explained the plot to me a while after the adventure/campaign failed to take hold. The lord was bowing to pressure from the local guilds to "do something" about the bandits on the road. But the lord was actually in league with the bandits, and so didn't want to really send a team who could actually wipe them out. So he picked our team. Picking the obvious novices would have tipped his hand that he wasn't really trying to kill the bandits. So, anyway, this brought this idea to mind: Maybe the folks hiring the PCs in the OP situation refuse to give too much, (enough or any), help because they aren't really interested in rescuing/recovering the person/stuff. Let the PCs' frustration be a clue for them. Maybe it was an inside job, and that's why someone is hiring outside help -- someone who they think will make a big deal looking like their trying to solve the issue, but who can't really because they don't have the ability/power/resources. But this probably will only work with a group who don't think metagame too much. Bullgrit [/QUOTE]

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