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Message: <blockquote data-quote="QuaziquestGM" data-source="post: 4122081" data-attributes="member: 22559">Just watch the last Harry Potter movie that came out. Your nemesis can be like the Br. of Magic people who don't want to believe something so badly that they are seeing nonexistent conspiracies involving the PCs. Or for that matter, review the internal American political environment of the Vietnam war. America was winning the war. America was always winning the war. Even when the Viet Cong did something stunning, the stunt only caused them to be loosing faster because even if they increased the American casualty rate they made the proportional casualty rate more beneficial to the Americans (Yay! We killed an extra 500 Americans this month...to bad it cost us an extra 50,000.) Your nemesis can be the leaders of the anti-war isolations/relatives of the 50 dead members of the Royal army who want to stop supporting the gnomes  because they a)don't see why humans are involved in things "across the valley", b) don't see why their Human (white/black) sons should be dieing for gnomes (Asians), c) think that it is unfair that the commoners' sons are fighting and not the nobles', and d) mistakenly believe that pulling out will  allow the conflict to be settled archiving peace, failing to realize that the Lich warlord taking over their kingdom is not what most of the gnomes consider a peaceful situation even if the Lich is a gnome, never mind the consequences for the neighboring halfling kingdom (1.87 million, or for a better perspective 21% of the Cambodian population, dead). Like the American military, the pcs can be undefeated on the battlefield, and yet still be in danger of loosing the war due to "public relations", and inspite of their good works and hard efforts find themselves demonized on the streets when returning to Port Royal to resupply. Or, you could just go for opposing political factions.  Faction A doesn't want Faction B to succeed at anything, regardless of public benefit, because Faction A wants power.  And Vice Versa.  Put the PCs in the middle.</blockquote>

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