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<blockquote data-quote="Ibn Khaldun" data-source="post: 3751964" data-attributes="member: 4843">Depending on how you want to work it, how about a a big good guy saves the character to try to defeat the BBEG by using this character as an inside man?&nbsp; Or, a lieutenant of the BBEG did it and the character may have to, at some point, choose allegiances.&nbsp; As for the price, perhaps some sort of quest or something similar?&nbsp; A service the character the must perform at some, important juncture?&nbsp; You could also use it to communicate information creatively to that player and thus the group about things they might not ordinarily know, obviously spun by the angle of whomever ends up saving him.As a rule, I always try to avoid those type situations.&nbsp; I'll never forget the session I played in which the GM set up the same scenario as you did.&nbsp; Except in our case, we did too well so while his plan was to have these people save us from peril, we didn't need saving.&nbsp; To salvage the scenario, he suddenly powered up his enemies and knock us out - we all called him out for it since it was SO obvious a ploy.&nbsp; It really took everyone out of the scenario.&nbsp; It almost ruined the campaign since this, being the beginning of it all, left everyone with such a bitter taste.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ibn Khaldun, post: 3751964, member: 4843"] Depending on how you want to work it, how about a a big good guy saves the character to try to defeat the BBEG by using this character as an inside man? Or, a lieutenant of the BBEG did it and the character may have to, at some point, choose allegiances. As for the price, perhaps some sort of quest or something similar? A service the character the must perform at some, important juncture? You could also use it to communicate information creatively to that player and thus the group about things they might not ordinarily know, obviously spun by the angle of whomever ends up saving him. As a rule, I always try to avoid those type situations. I'll never forget the session I played in which the GM set up the same scenario as you did. Except in our case, we did [I]too[/I] well so while his plan was to have these people save us from peril, we didn't need saving. To salvage the scenario, he suddenly powered up his enemies and knock us out - we all called him out for it since it was SO obvious a ploy. It really took everyone out of the scenario. It almost ruined the campaign since this, being the beginning of it all, left everyone with such a bitter taste. [/QUOTE]

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