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<blockquote data-quote="dropbear8mybaby" data-source="post: 7184988" data-attributes="member: 6863518"><p>It's playing out fairly slowly and with a progressive element to it that is clearly being communicated to the players. About the only thing I think I haven't made clear is how much time has passed. By that, I mean, it's easy to forget that after ten times of me saying, "You travel for 3 days without incident," that it adds up to a month. So far, the PC's have taken just under two months to do all of this stuff (ironically, they could've sped this up immensely but they kept actively and passively neglecting to follow up on multiple opportunities to get the Harper Teleportation Network Map). That's ample time for things to develop, rumours to spread, alliances to be forged, etc., especially if magical communication (again, I'm assuming druids/shamans are active in the barbarian tribes and enable some of this) is taken into account. Plus I've had them engage in encounters with numerous barbarian tribes so they've had conversations with NPC's about it, over the course of several sessions.</p><p></p><p>Bryn Shander is currently the number one target, as far as the Reghed are concerned. The Elk Tribe being outright murdered (with witnesses who were able to flee) by the PC's for no reason (they were sneaking past and decided to attack them because one PC failed the check, there were reasons at the time not to do it as a group check because they were well dispersed) is a major catalyst. They were working with the Ten Towns to counter the orcs and frost giants in the area. I even described the barbarians as being over the bodies of orcs on the road after having just killed them. Up until the PC's were named as Defenders of Icewind Dale, by the Sheriff of Bryn Shander, the barbarians were willing to simply either get revenge on the PC's, or bring the PC's to their chieftain for judgement. But now it has played out as Bryn Shander betraying the alliance and sponsoring murderers. Add in the Uthgardt who have so far had two of their sacred burial mounds plundered and several of the guardians of those mounds butchered, and the Reghed travelling through their territories in pursuit of the PC's and consequently telling the Uthgardt about these marauders, and thus the seeds of a super alliance are sowed.</p><p></p><p>The super alliance is a long way off, mind you, but if the PC's continue to antagonise the parties involved, it could speed up significantly. As things stand, the alliance between the Elk Tribe and Ten-Towns has already been shattered, and has helped facilitate a possible war alliance with other Reghed tribes, and so the Ten Towns are now not only facing the possible threat of a barbarian attack, but they won't be getting anymore assistance against the frost giants or orcs.</p><p></p><p>And they just got done murdering a lord of Yartar and several citizens, making further enemies along the trading route to and from Waterdeep. That's going to make things interesting when they find they have to return to Yartar and resurrect that lord...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dropbear8mybaby, post: 7184988, member: 6863518"] It's playing out fairly slowly and with a progressive element to it that is clearly being communicated to the players. About the only thing I think I haven't made clear is how much time has passed. By that, I mean, it's easy to forget that after ten times of me saying, "You travel for 3 days without incident," that it adds up to a month. So far, the PC's have taken just under two months to do all of this stuff (ironically, they could've sped this up immensely but they kept actively and passively neglecting to follow up on multiple opportunities to get the Harper Teleportation Network Map). That's ample time for things to develop, rumours to spread, alliances to be forged, etc., especially if magical communication (again, I'm assuming druids/shamans are active in the barbarian tribes and enable some of this) is taken into account. Plus I've had them engage in encounters with numerous barbarian tribes so they've had conversations with NPC's about it, over the course of several sessions. Bryn Shander is currently the number one target, as far as the Reghed are concerned. The Elk Tribe being outright murdered (with witnesses who were able to flee) by the PC's for no reason (they were sneaking past and decided to attack them because one PC failed the check, there were reasons at the time not to do it as a group check because they were well dispersed) is a major catalyst. They were working with the Ten Towns to counter the orcs and frost giants in the area. I even described the barbarians as being over the bodies of orcs on the road after having just killed them. Up until the PC's were named as Defenders of Icewind Dale, by the Sheriff of Bryn Shander, the barbarians were willing to simply either get revenge on the PC's, or bring the PC's to their chieftain for judgement. But now it has played out as Bryn Shander betraying the alliance and sponsoring murderers. Add in the Uthgardt who have so far had two of their sacred burial mounds plundered and several of the guardians of those mounds butchered, and the Reghed travelling through their territories in pursuit of the PC's and consequently telling the Uthgardt about these marauders, and thus the seeds of a super alliance are sowed. The super alliance is a long way off, mind you, but if the PC's continue to antagonise the parties involved, it could speed up significantly. As things stand, the alliance between the Elk Tribe and Ten-Towns has already been shattered, and has helped facilitate a possible war alliance with other Reghed tribes, and so the Ten Towns are now not only facing the possible threat of a barbarian attack, but they won't be getting anymore assistance against the frost giants or orcs. And they just got done murdering a lord of Yartar and several citizens, making further enemies along the trading route to and from Waterdeep. That's going to make things interesting when they find they have to return to Yartar and resurrect that lord... [/QUOTE]
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