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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Asmor" data-source="post: 278628" data-attributes="member: 1154">Thanks for all the advice. I am of a slightly different mind when it comes to Gods than a lot of other people... They play by a whole different set of rules, and can quite literally do whatever they want. No rolls, no spells, it just happens. I'm trying to impress this on the players.Why not the king's men? Well, because the king's men aren't PCs. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Seriously, though, I didn't think of that. I've got a couple ideas for why... Perhaps the kingdom was founded in peace, and it's against their charter (or whatever a kingdom would have?) to mobilize any group of soldiers outside the city walls except during an actual war. Or maybe on the flipside the king's own men don't trust him because of many losses in a recent series of petty attacks and raids for no reason other than to fill the royal coffers a bit more. He can't risk any more ill-will from his people. Or maybe with training and equipment figured in, it would be cheaper to hire a band of adventurers. What do you think?The high elves are xenophobic (not overly, but not just a bit either), which is why they immediately try to capture the PCs and find out what they want. The port the PCs landed in is the first settlement on their continent (besides the high elf cities), and they've earned the elves ire by immediately harvesting a great deal of lumber to build their town.Now that you mention it, it's not really important, and the PCs would probably seek the elves for some advice anyways... I'd hope... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Yeah, my PCs are smart enough to know that ancient dragon != cannon fodder. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And finally, with the war and all, the PCs are probably the only ones of that family left. If they both seem like they wouldn't want to do it, I'll let them find another survivor among the rebel groups.One thing I realized is that I can't really see it taking more than 3 months between the PCs leaving the kingdom and returning to the continent. A week from the kingdom to the pork, 3 weeks to a month on the sea, 2 or 3 weeks to find the ankh and do the dragon's quest (still need ideas for what that might be), then another 3 weeks-a month on the sea. Any ideas how I can stretch it, or make it more believable that all the evil races were able to conquer that quickly? Maybe a magical plague?</blockquote>

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