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<blockquote data-quote="Haffrung Helleyes" data-source="post: 86969" data-attributes="member: 1068">kidnapping...Well, this hits a bit close to home for me.&nbsp; My Uncle was kidnapped by FARC guerillas in Colombia and held for ransom for 11 months.But the main problem is, you let them get to the villain and his hostage.&nbsp; In a real kidnapping, your loved one is gone and you get an anonymous message telling you where to leave the money.&nbsp; There's no exchange...they tell you they'll let the person go after they are paid (and escape) and you have no choice but to trust them.&nbsp; Most of the time the kidnappers let the hostage go, but some times you get a 2nd ransom demand (as my family did) and you end up paying that as well.&nbsp; In real life, at least in Colombia, rescue missions generally end with the death of both the kidnappers and the hostage, and so are not favored.In DnD, however, getting the hostages body is almost as good as getting the hostage, so a smart kidnapper will make this as difficult as possible.&nbsp; If the kidnapper kills the girl and Animates her as a skeleton, she can't be brought back even with True Ressurection until the skeleton is found.You need to play up the drama of the kidnapping and make the focus of the adventure finding where they are holding the girl.&nbsp; Once your pcs have&nbsp; got that figured out things become much easier, if you are playing by the core rules.Ken McKinney</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Haffrung Helleyes, post: 86969, member: 1068"] [b]kidnapping...[/b] Well, this hits a bit close to home for me. My Uncle was kidnapped by FARC guerillas in Colombia and held for ransom for 11 months. But the main problem is, you let them get to the villain and his hostage. In a real kidnapping, your loved one is gone and you get an anonymous message telling you where to leave the money. There's no exchange...they tell you they'll let the person go after they are paid (and escape) and you have no choice but to trust them. Most of the time the kidnappers let the hostage go, but some times you get a 2nd ransom demand (as my family did) and you end up paying that as well. In real life, at least in Colombia, rescue missions generally end with the death of both the kidnappers and the hostage, and so are not favored. In DnD, however, getting the hostages body is almost as good as getting the hostage, so a smart kidnapper will make this as difficult as possible. If the kidnapper kills the girl and Animates her as a skeleton, she can't be brought back even with True Ressurection until the skeleton is found. You need to play up the drama of the kidnapping and make the focus of the adventure finding where they are holding the girl. Once your pcs have got that figured out things become much easier, if you are playing by the core rules. Ken McKinney [/QUOTE]

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