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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hand of Evil" data-source="post: 5229863" data-attributes="member: 371">It is all up to the players and what they are looking for in the game but see the DM advice thread in my sig for lots of stuff.  My players do some monster hunting but then set up an adventuring/bank/trade lodge guild company, they then expand that business as they see fit.As posted in the Plots forum and another thread -- my players own an Inn/Bank/Adventure Guild Lodge: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dealing with the local mob - is it a fair mob, payments weekly and use of the tavern or demand a take as they see fit.  -- In my players case, this was a "bad" mob that kept making demands on the players.  Started out as a protection racket, then moved into fence hangout, the the party had enough. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dealing with corrupt tax men - you just can't kill him...well you could but...-- The party did.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Finding a cook and a brew master - create a few NPCs with personality issues for the staff and let the players pick from them - its fun to see who gets hired.  </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Helping an employee - you got a good employee and now they need help with something like old employer or something darker.  -- Party had to free family members from the control of the old employer (a PIMP), yep, the party was running that kind of place. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Getting a seat on the City Council - once you start the tavern and adventures are good it is a way to be a mover and shaker. -- Single party member who was quiting the game (deployment to Iraq), had him run and get elected, this way I could keep him in the game and pass info to him on laws and such for his interaction. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What to do with the body in your bathroom - is is going to happen, what will happen to the tavern if a body is found, does the city close you down for a couple of days, do you care, do you dump the body somewhere else? -- My game, they dumped the body to frame a "evil" NPC.  </li> </ul>As you can see no monster and no taking of stuff.</blockquote>

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