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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 2020889" data-attributes="member: 9254">I've only got one question for the DM: What did you expect to happen?   Maybe you can get back on track once you know what you wanted.  But to address the issues at hand:Neighboring kings, even a Paladin-King, have responsibilities.  Their first responsibility is to their vassals, then to the world.  So if the king won't win he only throws his subjects' lives away.  Thus, a Paladin-King will refuse to start open war.  Now a subtle war is a different matter.  Maybe you can get support from the Paladin-King for the underground railroad.  If it's legal to go slaving abroad in Badonia it's completely legal to go un-slaving abroad in Goodlund.  And a Paladin-King will have a large information network that could feed info to these suicidial heroes.  Then turn this incident into a giant PR extravaganza.  Look, you've got slavers who abuse children.  These people are so bad they have the local mob preparing to wage war.  (Sure, it's due to non-payment of protection money but that's not as good a message)The "Neutral" and "Good" slave-owners (I put it in quotes for those who can't swallow the idea of a good person owning slaves) will be horrified or at least find it utterly distasteful.  Properly parlayed into "political capital" it should be able to buy the slaves freedom and set them up with some kind of fund.The heroes can then seek to expose the ugly side of the slave trade as the medieval investigative reporters of the day.  Of course they'll make enemies and get lots of fun combat in self-defense where they can kill or not kill at their whim for the less moral factors.  And they'll have the backing of a Baron to ensure the greedy ones will feel like there is compensation involved.  Oh, and the looting of the slavers illicit activities.  Let's face it, if every angel that looked at hell decided to attack its evil solo there'd be no angels left.  They have to know that you can't fight all evils head on but that an indirect fight is still fighting evil.</blockquote>

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