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<blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 1494991" data-attributes="member: 3887">Then we agree. And likelihood of an evil party having some manner of benefactor is entirely up to DM. I'd argue that 1) such a scenario is no less likely than having a group of scrub PC's be fated fulfill an ancient prophesy and save the world; its merely a different kind of far-fetched story, a different style of play. Wild coincidence is a staple of fantasy, heroic or otherwise, 2) The DM agreed to run an evil group, so there's some onus on him to indulge his players, at least as far as he would a good aligned group. Maybe the PC's are too reckless to survive, but the DM aught to provide them with a fair number of second chances, regardless of their alignment [alignment should effect who pulls their a**es from the fire, not whether it happens], otherwise the whole game is a bit of the old bait-and-switch, with the DM agreeing to an evil party, but really its just a 'lesson' campaign designed to demonstrate how 'evil never wins'.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mallus, post: 1494991, member: 3887"] Then we agree. And likelihood of an evil party having some manner of benefactor is entirely up to DM. I'd argue that 1) such a scenario is no less likely than having a group of scrub PC's be fated fulfill an ancient prophesy and save the world; its merely a different kind of far-fetched story, a different style of play. Wild coincidence is a staple of fantasy, heroic or otherwise, 2) The DM agreed to run an evil group, so there's some onus on him to indulge his players, at least as far as he would a good aligned group. Maybe the PC's are too reckless to survive, but the DM aught to provide them with a fair number of second chances, regardless of their alignment [alignment should effect who pulls their a**es from the fire, not whether it happens], otherwise the whole game is a bit of the old bait-and-switch, with the DM agreeing to an evil party, but really its just a 'lesson' campaign designed to demonstrate how 'evil never wins'. [/QUOTE]

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