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<blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 3676668" data-attributes="member: 25619">Excellent advice.The other advice I'd give, when deciding what action YOU the DM should take is to step back and role play it.&nbsp; Why should the rat queen kill one and let the others go?&nbsp; Perhaps she kills one at a time for ritual reasons or for food, or wants to sell them to slavers but has to wait to make a deal, giving them time to escape or another captor to use diplomacy on/escape from.&nbsp; A role-played villain is more fun for everyone than a villain who dangles on the strings of the DM's screenwriter's ideas.&nbsp; In playing the villain, be a pampered actor and always asks &quot;what's my motivation&quot; and only does things that make sense for the character himself, not in service of mood or plotting that don't ring true.If you want to turn it into an adventure, the classic Greyhawk adventure A4 in the Slavers series had a great scenario for this -- PC's wake up in the dark with no equipment in a dungeon that's meant as an execution.&nbsp; Oh, and the dungeon is in a volcano that's about to blow up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="haakon1, post: 3676668, member: 25619"] Excellent advice. The other advice I'd give, when deciding what action YOU the DM should take is to step back and role play it. Why should the rat queen kill one and let the others go? Perhaps she kills one at a time for ritual reasons or for food, or wants to sell them to slavers but has to wait to make a deal, giving them time to escape or another captor to use diplomacy on/escape from. A role-played villain is more fun for everyone than a villain who dangles on the strings of the DM's screenwriter's ideas. In playing the villain, be a pampered actor and always asks "what's my motivation" and only does things that make sense for the character himself, not in service of mood or plotting that don't ring true. If you want to turn it into an adventure, the classic Greyhawk adventure A4 in the Slavers series had a great scenario for this -- PC's wake up in the dark with no equipment in a dungeon that's meant as an execution. Oh, and the dungeon is in a volcano that's about to blow up. [/QUOTE]

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