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<blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 3332512" data-attributes="member: 386"><p>Oh, cool.</p><p></p><p>Still, I'm thinking that you could just make her a human commoner/expert/aristocrat. Thing is, she has the king wrapped around her little finger, so confronting her means confronting the king. There will be consequences to it.</p><p></p><p>I might include a monster of some sort (succubus/doppleganger, the "obvious choice" that you want to avoid) that was linked to the old king and now hates the new king and his consort. As a red herring. The nanny and the king could manipulate the PCs into getting rid of this monster for them.</p><p></p><p>I'd also make the nanny more or less sympathetic. Maybe she had a good reason (something that resonates with the PCs/players) to hate the old king. "Don't I have the right to justice?"</p><p></p><p>I'm probably not being much help. I'm more interested in the relationship between all these NPCs than what kind of creature the nanny is.</p><p></p><p>Here's something that just came to me. Probably won't help you out, but I thought it cool:</p><p></p><p>Father is a bad guy. Drives mother to suicide. She becomes an allip. Son finds allip, locks it up somehow (permanent magic circle vs evil?). Son visits his "mother". She drives him insane with her mindless babbling. He fails his save vs. hypnotism, goes and kills his father and brother. Is wracked with guilt. Doesn't want to destroy his "mother", all the family he's got left.</p><p></p><p>edit: Needs more NPCs to make it cool. It's a start.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LostSoul, post: 3332512, member: 386"] Oh, cool. Still, I'm thinking that you could just make her a human commoner/expert/aristocrat. Thing is, she has the king wrapped around her little finger, so confronting her means confronting the king. There will be consequences to it. I might include a monster of some sort (succubus/doppleganger, the "obvious choice" that you want to avoid) that was linked to the old king and now hates the new king and his consort. As a red herring. The nanny and the king could manipulate the PCs into getting rid of this monster for them. I'd also make the nanny more or less sympathetic. Maybe she had a good reason (something that resonates with the PCs/players) to hate the old king. "Don't I have the right to justice?" I'm probably not being much help. I'm more interested in the relationship between all these NPCs than what kind of creature the nanny is. Here's something that just came to me. Probably won't help you out, but I thought it cool: Father is a bad guy. Drives mother to suicide. She becomes an allip. Son finds allip, locks it up somehow (permanent magic circle vs evil?). Son visits his "mother". She drives him insane with her mindless babbling. He fails his save vs. hypnotism, goes and kills his father and brother. Is wracked with guilt. Doesn't want to destroy his "mother", all the family he's got left. edit: Needs more NPCs to make it cool. It's a start. [/QUOTE]
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