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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Karak" data-source="post: 6024622" data-attributes="member: 6700170">I am a fan, at times, of putting myself in the stressful spot of having things go the way I didn't expect. I like that feeling. Maybe you should write down the different ways they could react and roll on them. Then flesh out the story. Sometimes this randomness can get your brain burning with ideas you never thought possible.Sometimes when you expect a particular reaction from an NPC and for whatever reason get a different one it can lead to wonderful new subplots.For example I had a player group in AfterEarth completely decimate a nomadic Troll tribe, including killing their Revenger(massive mutated troll) that was that tribes pride and joy. Normally Trolls in my world are vengeful in their hereditary makeup and are known for tracking down people for thousands of miles to right a wrong.However, when the players were faced with the Troll Phalanax entering their small border town on a sleeping Sunday morning, they were surprised to have the nomadic leader show up and thank them. Little did they know that the specific group they had killed had been making a power play for the leadership and had been causing havoc for months. I also DID NOT Know. I decided to roll it right then and there.However the result of that simple roll changed the entire Troll nation, its ways, its diplomacy in the entire game. It added subplots, and mentalities to a race that had already felt fresh compared to other games but now was layered thick with different possibilities. It was that one random roll that basically changed an entire race.Sadly it probably made them even stronger as we had decimated the one splinter group and we never knew why they had splintered in the first place. Currently trade is choked off to the Bordertowns due to Troll banditry and somehow they have even awakened the local world dragon<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />But still amazing amazing time and would never had occurred if I hadn't just...jumped.</blockquote>

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