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<blockquote data-quote="kitsune9" data-source="post: 5452656" data-attributes="member: 18507">These are good ideas Jeff. For #2 though, I'm thinking no one is really evil, self-centered or apathetic yes, but not evil. If I was running this campaign, then I wouldn't want the PC's to be mowing down these NPCs for their stupidity or avarice and would likely play this for laughs.&nbsp; But you do mention an excellent twist in that it's part of a plan [insert Mr. Smither's &quot;Excellent&quot; here]--kind of like Boss Hogg trying to get Uncle Jesse's farm becuase it's valuable to him. So the mayor's real intention is that he wants to drive out certain farmers because their farmland would make a nice horse-and-pony stables or he wants to build his summer villa that overlooks a brook and so on. Or maybe there is a real profit motive behind the plan such as the mayor's oracle divined that there's rough diamonds in the fields, but the mayor has to dig up the entire farmsteads to find them.Now, Mommy and Daddy nobles don't know of their son's ambitions. If the PC's want to take this up with them, they got to travel to where they are currently vacationing for the next four months--about eight days ride or they can cut down to four if they are willing to go through a gods-forsaken forest and bog filled with monsters and other horrors. I'm envisioning the PC's going through hell and back just to get to the mayor's parents. Something that will endear the mayor to the PC's for years to come. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Then when they get there, it could be &quot;Oh, we are so sorry, we will punish our son and let us help the poor villagers.&quot; or &quot;We don't see how this is our problem, but if you want us to deal with it, we have a little matter of our own that needs to be taken care of.....[insert next adventure here]&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kitsune9, post: 5452656, member: 18507"] These are good ideas Jeff. For #2 though, I'm thinking no one is really evil, self-centered or apathetic yes, but not evil. If I was running this campaign, then I wouldn't want the PC's to be mowing down these NPCs for their stupidity or avarice and would likely play this for laughs. But you do mention an excellent twist in that it's part of a plan [insert Mr. Smither's "Excellent" here]--kind of like Boss Hogg trying to get Uncle Jesse's farm becuase it's valuable to him. So the mayor's real intention is that he wants to drive out certain farmers because their farmland would make a nice horse-and-pony stables or he wants to build his summer villa that overlooks a brook and so on. Or maybe there is a real profit motive behind the plan such as the mayor's oracle divined that there's rough diamonds in the fields, but the mayor has to dig up the entire farmsteads to find them. Now, Mommy and Daddy nobles don't know of their son's ambitions. If the PC's want to take this up with them, they got to travel to where they are currently vacationing for the next four months--about eight days ride or they can cut down to four if they are willing to go through a gods-forsaken forest and bog filled with monsters and other horrors. I'm envisioning the PC's going through hell and back just to get to the mayor's parents. Something that will endear the mayor to the PC's for years to come. ;) Then when they get there, it could be "Oh, we are so sorry, we will punish our son and let us help the poor villagers." or "We don't see how this is our problem, but if you want us to deal with it, we have a little matter of our own that needs to be taken care of.....[insert next adventure here]". [/QUOTE]

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