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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Saracen" data-source="post: 461417" data-attributes="member: 5721">It's been a long time since I DMed, but I like to introduce characters by putting on the opposite sides of the same issue.My favorite example of this was when a the party was hired to protect a merchant and his caravan. The merchant had a magic ring that, unknown to him, had been stolen and sold to him by a thief.The new party member was also a thief and was hired by the original owner of the ring to retrieve it from the person who had stolen it, or whomever it had been sold to.The new party member was successful in getting into the merchant's tent but the ring was still on the merchant's finger. The thief tried to apply oil and slip the ring off the merchant's finger but the merchant woke up and started yelling. The three party members ran in and confronted the thief.After a brief skirmish (one of the party members was an fighter whose motto was kill first, ask questions later,) and a lengthy conversation where the thief explained the situation he eventually convinced the party and merchant he was telling the truth. The merchant agreed, not to give the thief the ring, but to divert his caravan to the city the original owner was from and return the ring if the story was true.Since it was true, the ring was returned, the thief joined the party and even the merchant was happy because, as it turned out, the original owner was a master weaponsmith and the encounter added a new client to the merchant's list.</blockquote>

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